Robert Conrad Flynn was born on Lawrence Matthew Cardine; July 19,1967 and is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for heavy metal band Machine Head.
12 Facts About Robb Flynn
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Robb Flynn formed the band along with Adam Duce, Logan Mader and Tony Costanza after leaving Bay Area thrash band Vio-lence.
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Robb Flynn cited Black Sabbath as his biggest influence and the reason he plays guitar.
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Robb Flynn joined the thrash metal band Forbidden, while in his graduating year at American High School.
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Robb Flynn then went on to form Machine Head, whose debut album Burn My Eyes made Robb Flynn a rising metal star.
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Robb Flynn wrote, produced and recorded guitar on four songs, these were The Rich Man, Independent, Army of the Sun and The Dagger and on the latter he sang and wrote lyrics alongside Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage.
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On June 11,2007, Robb Flynn received the Metal Hammer 2007 Golden God Award.
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In honor of Debbie Abono and Ronnie James Dio, Robb Flynn recorded and released for free online a cover of Black Sabbath's "Die Young".
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Robb Flynn had a break-in at his house in which several items, including guitars, were stolen.
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Robb Flynn used two Ibanez strat styled guitars in the early days of Machine Head, a white one used in 1992 until 1993, and a black one covered with stickers which he used to record Burn My Eyes, which was stolen from his home in 2010 along with a Washburn Dimebolt which Dimebag Darrell had once given to him.
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Robb Flynn used these guitars for The More Things Change.
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Robb Flynn had signed a deal with Epiphone in which he could get signature models based closely on his designs with ESP.