Big city bob
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Big City Bob is the nickname of Creative Writer, Independent Recording Artist and Entertainer Bobby Rivers, born Roberto Glen Alicea in Green Bay to Cruz Rivera Alicea of Puerto Rico and Sandra Jean Peters of Green Bay, Wisconsin. As a child attending St. Paul Lutheran Grade School in Green Bay, WI he was was a huge fan of the rock band Kiss. He began writing material with school mate Jef Jaeger at Fox Valley Lutheran High School in 1982 at age 15, heavily influenced by the "endless hook" music writing style of Canadian rocker Nick Gilder.
He and Jef would record four Christian Rock albums from 1992 to 1997 under the name 'Fallen Race' [1] , hoping to make Screamo music more articulate and understandable. From 1995 to 2001 he picked up the nicknames "Big City Bob" and "Bobby Vegas" while doing solo shows in the Kewaunee County area.
On most of his various solo recordings, assembled under the name 'Bobby Rivers' from 2002 to 2006, he played all the instruments (guitars, bass, drums and keyboards) and did all the vocal parts, lead and background. Amongst hundreds of solo works since 1982, he wrote and recorded "Son of a Boy Named Sue" in 1999, a sequel of Johnny Cash's top ten hit, "A Boy Named Sue", which was written by Shel Silverstein. Shel Silverstein wrote a sequel called "The Father of the Boy Named Sue". See "The Father Of The Boy Named Sue" lyrics at Shel Silverstein's Adult Works
Big City Bob (Bobby Rivers) is not the Bobby Rivers from Milwaukee who later hosted on VH-1 and The Food Network, nor is he Bob Rivers, the parody recording artist and radio DJ on KZOK-FM in Seattle.
In 2006 he formed a group with ex-drummer from the Nashville Rockabilly Hall of Fame Band, Al Kilian, and Jim Morrison, an original member of the 1961 rock and roll group, "The Centuries". Jim Morrison (not Jim Morrison from The Doors) came up with the name of '3's Company' and they play selections from the original rock and roll era. The entertainer also does various vocal impressions of other legendary singers during his shows such as Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Conway Twitty, Buddy Holly, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Davey Jones, Jim Reeves, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Garth Brooks, Rick Springfield, Eddie Money, Jimmy Buffett, George Jones and many others. Photos of him are found at the 3's Company Band website other links include:
- "Son of a Boy Named Sue" on cd
- 3's Company Live Demos
- Various original solo recordings
- fallen race Anthology cd 1992-1997
- search Bobby Rivers
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