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ROBBIE
" THE WEREWOLF" ROBISON
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I received the following response from Alan Brackett of The Peanut Butter Conspiracy regarding an inquiry I made on the unofficial Peanut Butter Conspiracy site:
Robbie and Barbara were good friends of mine. I picked up Dallas and Bob on the Sunset Strip and brought them to the PBC house in Silverlake. I always thought of the Clear Light as an "offspring" of the PBC. They had 2 drummers and made that work! Doug used to come and watch us play at the Waleback. I remember him sitting right in front of the stage and watching me play. We were all definitely in the same
clique. We used to jam together, and hang out a lot. When they lived on Franklin Avenue, there was a lot going on around the clock. It was a very easy and natural thing to add Ralph and Michael to the PBC when the time came. We had already played together for years. It was too bad that Robbie was kicked out by Paul - he was such a great influence on all of us. He was like a left-over from the beatnik generation that went through the folk music period but didn't make it into the rock world with the rest of us. He had a single act in folk music and called himself "Robbie The Werewolf". I still have his lp. It was recorded live at the Waleback. I was in folk music then with the Hillside Singers. Robbie used to do songs that were scary. He had that red hair and red eyes and beard and would beat on his out of tune 12 string and go into the audience and I remember people falling backwards out of their chairs because he would get right in their face dripping with sweat off of his beard and singing songs about Count Dracula. He was a true character and we all loved him.
Robbie Robison passed on in 2001, in Oregon.
A Remembrance of Robbie by Alan Brackett
Robbie Robison was one of the most memorable human beings I have known and loved in my life. He was so "hep" and his way of living life was an example so many of us learned from in the 60's. He showed us how to not be afraid of being an individual and different. His stage performances as "Robbie The Werewolf" were testament to this - there has never been and never will be a performer quite like him. I have so many great memories with Robbie. I only wish I could have found him sooner. It seems that he had a whole other life after I lost track of him. He married and had several more children and grandchildren. This all after having been married to Barbara and having their son, Scott. His memory lives on with all of the lives he touched.
May 28th 2004
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Robbie and the Light Guitar
Robbie designed a "light Guitar" when we asked him to step aside as rhythm guitarist. He had minimal knowledge of the fine points of guitar and couldn't keep up...(someone else that had trouble keeping up was John Lennon,).... but we still wanted him on stage with us. He WAS a founding member. So he came up with the idea for the light guitar...he fashioned something out of wood that resembled a guitar, but on the neck it had myriad buttons instead of strings. By pushing different combinations of buttons, he could control lighting that was behind and above the band. Colors, flashing patterns,..etc. It made him happy to still be able to contribute...and he was such a gentleman about stepping away from the guitar, but still staying up front on stage with us....he wanted the best for the band. And people did enjoy watching him...he was a character! He looked so 'pirate' scary, but was actually a very soft and mellow person, living for the excitement of the stage. He was in his glory. We all miss him.
Doug Lubahn Jan 2005
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Robbie Robison. Photograph courtesy of Alan Brackett
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