Kane Roberts
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Kane Roberts,born Robert William Athas is a heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 guitarist best known for his tenure in Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

's band during the late 1980s. He has performed as a solo
Solo (music)
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 act.

Roberts is notable for his Rambo
John Rambo
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-like physique and his usage of an electric guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

 shaped like a machine gun
Machine gun
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.

Career

Roberts was the guitarist who played on Alice Cooper's Constrictor
Constrictor (album)
Constrictor is the 16th studio album by rock musician Alice Cooper released on September 22 1986. After retiring from the music industry after the release of DaDa, Cooper remained in seclusion for three years. He starred in Monster Dog, a horror film for which he wrote two songs. He also guest...

and Raise Your Fist and Yell
Raise Your Fist and Yell
Raise Your Fist and Yell is the 17th studio album by rock musician Alice Cooper released on September 5th 1987. It features the track "Prince of Darkness", which is featured very briefly in the John Carpenter film of the same name, in which Cooper has a cameo as a murderous vagrant. The song can...

and their respective tours. He is the man responsible for Alice's metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 years in the late '80s as he co-wrote nearly every track from those albums. Just by being on stage, he was a part of the show with his huge physique and rocket shooting guitars.

After "Raise Your Fist", Kane released his first solo album, Kane Roberts, which featured Alice lyrics on 'Full Pull'. He then guested on Trash, playing guitar on "Bed Of Nails". He then released a second solo album Saints and Sinners
Saints and Sinners (Kane Roberts album)
-Personnel:*Kane Roberts – vocals, lead and rhythm guitar*John McCurry – guitar*Steve Steele – bass*Myron Grombacher – drums*Chuck Kentis – keyboards-References:*[ allmusic entry]***...

.

While he is primarily a guitar player, Roberts is also a skilled vocalist, capable of extreme high range, as is evident on his solo projects. Saints and Sinners
Saints and Sinners (Kane Roberts album)
-Personnel:*Kane Roberts – vocals, lead and rhythm guitar*John McCurry – guitar*Steve Steele – bass*Myron Grombacher – drums*Chuck Kentis – keyboards-References:*[ allmusic entry]***...

 contained the Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi
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-penned "Does Anybody Really Fall In Love Anymore?", previously recorded by Cher
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 as well.

He also played on the Bob Ezrin
Bob Ezrin
Robert Alan "Bob" Ezrin is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist, known for his work with artists including Alice Cooper, Kiss and Pink Floyd. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2004.-Biography:...

 produced Count Three & Pray
Count Three & Pray
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 album by Berlin
Berlin (band)
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, and a Rod Stewart
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 album. He helped on backing vocals on Steve Vai
Steve Vai
Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....

's "Sex & Religion"album. He also co-wrote "Take It Off" With Paul Stanley
Paul Stanley
Stanley Harvey Eisen , better known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American hard rock guitarist, singer, musician, painter and songwriter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and primary lead vocalist of the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's...

 and Bob Ezrin
Bob Ezrin
Robert Alan "Bob" Ezrin is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist, known for his work with artists including Alice Cooper, Kiss and Pink Floyd. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2004.-Biography:...

 which appeared on Kiss
KISS (band)
Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...

' Revenge
Revenge (KISS album)
Revenge is the 16th studio album by American heavy metal band Kiss, released on May 19, 1992. It was the band's first album after the death of long-time drummer Eric Carr in November 1991. His replacement, Eric Singer, had played with Black Sabbath, Brian May, Alice Cooper and even Paul Stanley,...

 album.

He contributed to albums by Status Quo (Quo), Steve Vai
Steve Vai
Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....

 (Sex & Religion) and Desmond Child
Desmond Child
Desmond Child is an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.-Career:...

 (Discipline).

Roberts took a long hiatus from music after his second solo album, but returned in 1999 with a band called Phoenix Down, named for a life potion in the PlayStation
PlayStation
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 video game Final Fantasy VII
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is a role-playing video game developed by Square and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as the seventh installment in the Final Fantasy series. It was originally released in 1997 for the Sony PlayStation and was re-released in 1998 for Microsoft Windows-based personal computers and in 2009...

, one of Roberts' favorite games. Phoenix Down recorded only one album, entitled Under A Wild Sky. Fans of both say that much of the record is inspired by the game.

After several years away from the music industry, working in graphic arts
Graphic arts
A type of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of art forms. Graphic art is typically two-dimensional and includes calligraphy, photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, lithography, typography, serigraphy , and bindery. Graphic art also consists of drawn plans and layouts for interior...

 and as a video game programmer, Roberts began work on a new album, Touched, in 2006. According to his website kaneroberts.com it is not yet available.

Discography

with Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...


  • Constrictor
    Constrictor (album)
    Constrictor is the 16th studio album by rock musician Alice Cooper released on September 22 1986. After retiring from the music industry after the release of DaDa, Cooper remained in seclusion for three years. He starred in Monster Dog, a horror film for which he wrote two songs. He also guest...

    - 1986
  • Raise Your Fist and Yell
    Raise Your Fist and Yell
    Raise Your Fist and Yell is the 17th studio album by rock musician Alice Cooper released on September 5th 1987. It features the track "Prince of Darkness", which is featured very briefly in the John Carpenter film of the same name, in which Cooper has a cameo as a murderous vagrant. The song can...

    - 1987
  • Trash - 1989


Solo career
  • Kane Roberts - 1987
  • Saints And Sinners
    Saints and Sinners (Kane Roberts album)
    -Personnel:*Kane Roberts – vocals, lead and rhythm guitar*John McCurry – guitar*Steve Steele – bass*Myron Grombacher – drums*Chuck Kentis – keyboards-References:*[ allmusic entry]***...

    - 1991
  • Under A Wild Sky (with solo band Phoenix Down) - 1999
  • Touched - 2006
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