Rob Johnson is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 musician currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He played bass guitar in the punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 and alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 bands SNFU

SNFU

SNFU is a Canadian punk rock band formed in 1981 in Edmonton, Alberta and later relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia. They have released nine full-length albums and are cited as a formative influence on the skate punk sub-genre....

 and the Wheat Chiefs

Wheat Chiefs

The Wheat Chiefs was a Canadian melodic rock band with punk rock influence formed in 1988 Edmonton, Alberta and later relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia. The group featured several members of SNFU and one from Jr...

, in addition to recording his own hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

 and hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 music in various incarnations.

Career

After playing in several local bands, Johnson joined the influential skate punk band SNFU in 1992 at the age of 20, while also associated with the Wheat Chiefs, a side project featuring several of the group's members. He played with the former group for ten years, appearing on four albums and touring extensively. After leaving SNFU in 2002, he began the hard rock band Air Raid Siren with drummer Sean Stubbs

Sean Stubbs

Sean R. Stubbs is a Canadian musician. He has served as the drummer in the industrial rock bands Numb and Jakalope, and the punk rock band SNFU. He has also been a member of alternative rock singer-songwriter Bif Naked's band.-Career:...

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In 1999, Johnson began his hip-hop career under the Freshbread moniker. He released the Big Boss Battle album in 2002.

External links

• Freshbread at CBC Radio 3
  CBC Radio 3
  CBC Radio 3 is a radio station that consists of two parts devoted to Canadian arts and music: a radio service which is available on Sirius Satellite Radio and streaming audio, and several daily and weekly podcasts from the CBC Radio 3 website...
  
  
• Official SNFU web page