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Rob Eberhard Young is an adroit and talented axe wielder currently based in Naples, Florida (U.S.A.) who represents his playing style as acoustic fusion ("thru-age"), as a listener can readily appreciate on his most recent album, "Consistent Variation".  His most utilized guitars consist of a Froggy Bottom Model K and a Tom Higgins 12-fret parlour guitar. Young has been playing guitar since 1979, and without beating around the bush discloses his career aspiration, "I been fortunate enough to achieve lots of them already in terms of getting
a major label deal, touring internationally, and playing with some of the
best musicians alive, but today my immediate goal is to continue to afford
to stay home by continuing to do scoring work. In 10 years I would like to
be a competent classical composer (I'm working on it...) and travel the
world again - but this time sitting in the audience listening to my music
played by others for a change!"
When prompted to divulge his ultimate effect for the guitar, Young responded by saying, "Definitely reverb if I only had one, but I love delay too for poly-rhythmic effects," and continued by citing his musicial goals, "Scoring has taught me the value of minimalism and always striving to say
"just the right thing.", and not a note more. I'm not sure I have done that
yet on any guitar music that I have recorded yet. I've gotten real close
probably a dozen times, but then I guess I'll never be totally happy with
anything I've done anyway.Also, I don't want to sacrifice melody in favor of
texture. I love dense rhythm and harmony as it associates to it. So I guess
a general compositional goal would be to write huge yet intimate, dense yet
sparse, moving music that has really simplistic and memorable melodies. Does
anyone else out there find that as difficult as I do?" He eagerly hopes to one day study classical piano ("but I will probably never have the time"), and is presently listening to John Adams, Fleetwood Mac, Tori Amos, David Lee Roth, Tuck Andress, Brian
Setzer, and himself (in his own head). His principal fulfillment? "Actually has nothing to do with music...Hanging out at home with my fiance'
when I'm not working. It took me 37 years to figure out that having a great
soulmate IS more important that having great bandmates," he declares without a doubt.
 Young wraps up by mentioning current and approaching undertakings enthusiastically, by saying, "There are three: First is to release my full band acoustic guitar based
fusion record, which was produced by Kip Winger (we recorded it at his home
studio a few years ago in Santa Fe). The record features Michael Manring on
fretless bass, Rod Morgenstein (Dregs/Winger) on drums, Alan Pasqua
(Holdsworth's old band) on piano, Andy Snitzer (Rolling Stones) on sax, and
Chris Botti (Sting) on trumpet. Second, I have an album of original film
score oriented music almost all written, which will be my first commercial
release with absolutely no guitar. And finally, I have another mostly solo
guitar album in the works. It is a bit more experimental in nature, and will
also have Manring and Pasqua playing on a few tunes as well."
Guitar Nine Records visitors have compared the playing style and/or musical approach of Rob Eberhard Young to guitarists such as Michael Hedges and others.
Young's discography (available here at Guitar Nine Records) includes one solo album ("Consistent Variation").
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