Robert Black

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Biography

American double bassist.

  • Real name
  • Robert Black
  • Name variations
  • R. Black
  • Bang On A Can·SPIT Orchestra·The Orchestra Of Excited Strings
  • Primary profession
  • Actor·producer·director
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 21 April 1947
  • Place of birth
  • Banff· Aberdeenshire
  • Death date
  • 2016-01-12
  • Death age
  • 69
  • Place of death
  • London
  • Cause of death
  • Natural causes
  • Children
  • Sarah Black
  • Education
  • University of Aberdeen·Christ's Hospital·Oberlin College·Juilliard School·George Watson's College
  • Knows language
  • English language·English language
  • Member of
  • Faculty of Advocates·Royal Society of Edinburgh·United Party
  • Parents
  • John Black

Music

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

In the summer of 2001 Adult Video News (AVN) and Vivid Video (which created AVN) dropped a "Defamation of Character" lawsuit they had filed against Black and his company, Extreme Associates, and instead banned them from all future AVN Awards shows.

Was in a huge battle with Adult Video News (AVN) and Vivid Video beginning in 1999. He claimed that "AVN is handing out awards to Vivid with extreme prejudice!".

On his website he consistently made negatives comments about what he perceived to be an unfair relationship between Adult Video News (AVN) and Vivid Video. As a result AVN decided to file a lawsuit against Blacks company, Extreme Associates, in the spring of 2000.

Nephew of Charles Zicari.

Cousin to Mark Zane.

Cousin to Matt Zane.

Good friends with fellow wrestling promoter Paul Heyman.

In 1997 he founded Extreme Associates, an adult-film production/distribution company, with Tom Byron and Lizzy Borden.

(September 2009) Lives in San Diego and works as a massage therapist while going to school to become an RN.

Holds Masters of Science degrees in Physics and Astronomy.

Accordion-player who made his acting dbut in Brial Friels Wonderful Tennessee.

Quotes

Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do not want to do, plus you get talked down to, ordered around by twats, you know you are better than. In reality, you are no better than a slave, no better than a hamster running on a wheel. You could say the hamster likes to run on the wheel, the hamster runs on the wheel by choice. But do not forget, the hamster is always in a cage, and will never be anything else, but a hamster running on a wheel inside a cage, unless it escapes the cage. .

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