Kane Roberts

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Kane Roberts is a heavy metal guitarist best known for his tenure in Alice Cooper's band during the late 1980s. He has also performed as a solo act.

Roberts is notable for his Rambo-like physique and his guitar shaped like a machine gun.

While he is primarily a guitar player, Roberts is also an impressive vocalist, with incredible range, as is evident on his solo projects.

Saints And Sinners contained a cover of Bon Jovi's "Does Anybody Really Fall In Love Anymore?", previously covered by Cher as well.

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 video game Final Fantasy VII, 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 and as a video game programmer, Roberts is working on a new album, Touched, in 2006. According to his website [www.kaneroberts.com] it is not yet available.

Kane Roberts (Robert William Athis), or Rambo as many people called him, was the guitarist who played on Alice Cooper's Constrictor and Raise Your Fist and Yell and their respective tours. He is the man responsible for Alice's metal 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 .

He also played on the Bob Ezrin produced Count Three And Pray album by Berlin , and a Rod Stewart album. He help on backing vocals on Steve Vai 's Sex And Religion album. He also co-wrote 'Take It Off' With Paul Stanley and Bob Ezrin which appeared on Kiss ' Revenge Album.

Kane is also retired from the music business and is developing CD Rom games which he also does amazing illustrations for-very similar to Robert Williams of Appetite For Destruction fame. Kane missed his calling-he should have been a stand-up comic. Very similar to Andrew Dice Clay but before Dice. (RenfieldAC, June 1995)

Since dropping off the planet, Kane Roberts has focused his creativity on the world of computer games. He currently has three CD ROMS in production, most notably THE LORDS OF TANTRAZZ on Atlantean Interactive . A dark and gore-filled sci-fi adventure, it features a dramatic performance by rock and roll's master of the macabre, ALICE COOPER , as the voice of the ultimate evil - "The Hunger". Released in the 3rd quarter of'96. (Press release, April 1996) 'The Lords Of Tantrazz' was released with Alice and Kane even doing some personal appearances to promote it. Nothing has been heard of the other two projects.

He contributed to albums by Quo (Quo), Steve Vai (Sex And Religion) and Desmond Child (discipline). He then made a new band called Phoenix Down. The first album of that new band will be released this fall on Now & Then Records and the company said that musically, it will be strong hard rock, in the vein of Kane's second solo album (1991's Saints And Sinners ).