One of the great cult icons. An original member of Los Angeles band of the early eighties The Rain Parade. Left after their wonderful, if slightly over-reverent debut album Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, according to Jim de Rogatis, 'Not only the best album from any of the Paisley Underground bands, it ranks with the best psychedelic rock efforts from any era.'
Roback went on to form first Opal and then Mazzy Star, two of the most interesting and inventive American bands of the eighties and nineties. The Rain Parade were never quite the same without him. A hugely creative and ingenious guitarist and songwriter.
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