Quintron

Quintron (real name Robert Rolston; born c. 1967 in Germany[1]) is an American musician and one-man-band.

He is a nightclub organist and inventor, who has patented a number of his own inventions and often performs at his own private club, the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans.

Quintron is often accompanied by The Drum Buddy, a rotating, light-activated analog synthesizer, one of many which he has created and manufactured himself.

[2] Quintron is regularly accompanied by his wife Miss Pussycat, who sings backup and plays maracas.

Describing how the apparatus works, Quintron explains that "You had to spit on a stick, like a paint stir stick, and you had two metal leads that you would touch to either end of the line of spit and then you would move the leads closer together - higher pitch - and farther apart - lower pitch.

You actually had a lot of control over the pitch with spit - it wasn’t too sensitive - and could really play it in tune like a real organ.

He grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and St. Louis, Missouri, before completing high school and moving to Chicago at the age of seventeen.

9th Ward Breakdown, a song he had written several years prior to Katrina, predicted the human cost of the disaster with uncanny accuracy.

"[4] Mr. Quintron's first two records on Bulb were initially released on vinyl only, in very small quantities, and are now very hard to find.

Quintron demonstrating his Bath Buddy