Background
Rob Baker is the son of the late Judge P.E.D. Baker.
Rob Baker is the son of the late Judge P.E.D. Baker.
Baker is a former student of Queen"s University where he studied visual art
He has also released an album with the side project Stripper"s Union in 2005. Later he designed many of the band"s t-shirts and album art Until the Tragically Hip"s fifth release, Day for Night, he was credited in the liner notes as Bobby He was also one of the winners of a 1999 Juno Award for Best Album Design, for The Tragically Hip release Phantom Power.
Up until the mid-1990s, he used a 1970s burnt umber Fender Stratocaster along with Mesa Boogie amplification and more recently Hamilton amplifiers.
He now uses a variety of guitars such as Paul Reed Smith, Ernie Ball Music Manitoba and Ovation Guitars, as well as a cream coloured Fender Telecaster, and Garrison acoustics. Baker uses these specific guitar models on stage: Garrison: G-41-Civil Engineering Garrison: G-50-Civil Engineering Ernie Ball Music Manitoba: Silhouette Special Paul Reed Smith: Custom Rickenbacker: 360/12 JG Fender: Stratocaster Fender: Telecaster.
He was inducted—as a member of the Tragically Hip—to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in April 2005 at the Juno Awards in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
