THE JOURNEY

Born in Northern California (Bay Area), and coming from a musical family, Rob picked up the guitar at age 14 and never put it down.

Rehearsing and jamming with other friend musicians for fun, soon led to his first band in 1998 called Meltdown, a classic rock cover band where he became lead guitarist. In 1999 he left Meltdown to help form latin rock band Hollopoynt. Going from the garage to the big stage happened very quickly as Hollopoynt was given the opportunity to play a Nor Cal show called Summerfest. It was a large music festival where 8,000 to 10,000 people watched Hollopoynt perform, it had opened some doors for the band Hollopoynt with a tour offer from Low Rider Magazine. This was one of their very first shows at ages 16 to 24.

Over the years of playing countless clubs, bars, festivals, and events, the band was given opportunities to open up for many national acts. Along the Hollopoynt journey, Rob helped form and play in other bands that made a good run.

In 2004 Rob Moreno was an original founding member of hard rock band Five Star Rising, which got radio play. FSR won the battle of the bands in 2004 and was given the opportunity to open for The Spin Doctors on a giant stage. FSR also played with Crossfade in Jan 2005 with their 2004 #1 hit (Cold). Some other groups, bands, and professional musicians that Robert shared the stage with were: Queensryche, LiT, Vanilla Ice, Coolio, Sir Mix Alot, Great White, Blue Oyster Cult, Baby Bash, Metal Church, Static X, The Romantics, The Calling , Angie Aparo, The Gas Giants, ,Smile Empty Soul, Attika 7, Jeremih, DEV, Hootie and the Blowfish, Dishwalla, Third Eye Blind, Digital Underground, Frankie J, The Chesterfield Kings, Moonshine Bandits, Flying Blind, Avril Lavigne, Vudu Cafe, Jorge Santana, Salvador Santana, Performed with members of WAR and latin rock group MALO, Miles Schon Band (son of guitarist Neal Schon of Journey).

Rob Moreno also played with hard rock band Coma Bloom from 2008 to late 2010. The band won a MAMA Award (Modesto Area Music Award) in 2009 and had radio air play. In early 2010 Coma Bloom entered a large 1 month battle of the bands with 40 of the best Northern California bands. After winning the first round Coma Bloom came back to the finals and won the competition, winning $10,000 worth or recording time and more..

Currently Rob Moreno resides in northern Humboldt County CA.

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