Maximum Bob (singer)

Robert Barnum,[1] better known under his stage name Maximum Bob, is an American musician known for his work as the lead singer and founding member of rock band Deli Creeps and for his singing on various releases related to avant-garde guitarist Buckethead.

Combining hard rock with shock factors based on the Sawyer family from the movie The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, they played shows to dumbfounded audiences that slowly grew to a rabid following.

[2] In 1999, after creating two demo tapes with the Deli Creeps (one in 1991 and the other in 1996) and touring along the San Francisco Bay area, Maximum Bob contributed to Buckethead's "Personalized Recordings",[3] and a year later fronted "The Hook And Pull Gang",[4][5] a Deli Creeps derivate that is not to be confused with the 80s punk rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland.

Travis Dickerson, the owner of the Creeps' record label TDRS music, stated in a 2003 interview that there might be plans for a Maximum Bob solo album, but didn't give any specific dates.

[7] Meanwhile, Maximum Bob has contributed vocals and lyrics for "The Hand" off Buckethead's all-star album Enter the Chicken (2005, re-released in 2008)[8] as well as singing parts of "Worship" on Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness), an album by Bill Laswell led supergroup Praxis, released in January 2008 but recorded years earlier.

The episode also never mentions his work as a musician, other than an allusion to it when host Bob Guiney tells the audience to "see if spending time with us has brought him back to rock star status".