He is a bass guitarist born Robert Steven Glaub in New York and raised in Los Angeles who has been working in the industry as a session musician since the 1970s when he first worked with Jesse Ed Davis .
Becoming quickly known he has been sought out to work with many major artists and groups such as including Laura Branigan, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band, Eric Carmen, Rosanne Cash, Cher, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Yvonne Elliman, Dan Fogelberg, Arlo Guthrie, Hall & Oates, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gordon Lightfoot, Eddie Money, Wayne Newton, Stevie Nicks, Dolly Parton, Steve Perry, Linda Ronstadt, Timothy B. Schmidt, Dusty Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr , Rod Stewart, Warren Zevon, and many more. He also spent part of 1986 as a studio musician for the band Journey and appeared on their album Raised on Radio.
He has appeared on numerous other albums that must number into the hundreds, if not thousands, they include Bad Girls by Donna Summer, Atlantic Crossing by Rod Stewart, Matters of the Heart by Tracy Chapman, The Future by Leonard Cohen, Empire Burlesque by Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, Speeding Time by Carole King, Blaze of Glory by Jon Bon Jovi, Greatest Hits by the Steve Miller Band , In My Lifetime by Neil Diamond , Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon, End of the Innocence by Don Henley , Viva Las Vegas by Elvis Presley , One Particular Harbour by Jimmy Buffett , Greatest Hits + Five Unreleased by Steve Perry, Very Merry Chipmunk by Alvin & The Chipmunks, Simpsons Sing the Blues by The Simpsons, Lives in the Balance by Jackson Browne, American Prayer by Jim Morrison, Another Passenger by Carly Simon , No Fun Aloud by Glenn Frey , Greatest Hits Vol 2 by Linda Ronstadt , Blue Moon Swamp by John Fogerty, Where Did the Money Go by Hoyt Axton , Rock a Little by Stevie Nicks, Living Eyes by Bee Gees , Greatest Hits 2 by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Christmas at Home by Donny Osmond, Essential Bruce Springsteen and USA for Africa: We Are The World.
On the business side of things he has been involved in the design of the Bob Glaub Signature Model bass guitars.
Linda Ronstadt recordings
Get Closer (Jonathan Carroll)
Asylum (7-69948-A)
Here he is a mini-documentary video about his work as a bassist…
Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Glaub
- http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-glaub-mn0000065501/credits
- http://www.lakland.com/basses/glaub.htm
- http://www.warr.org/sessrhythm.html
- http://www.buffettnews.com/bandmember89.html
- http://www.journey-zone.com/Sections/Band/Journey/glaub.htm
- http://home.cogeco.ca/~mansion3/bobglaub.html
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/260499-Bob-Glaub