Robert Pope is an American musician, best known as the bassist for

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and

The Get Up Kids The Get Up Kids are an American rock band from Olathe, Kansas. Formed in 1995, the band was a major player in the mid-1990s Midwest emo scene, otherwise known as the " second wave" of emo music. Their second album '' Something to Write Home Abo ...

History

Rob Pope grew up in Olathe, Kansas. In the summer of 1994, he was in a band called "Kingpin" with his brother

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and future Get Up Kids bandmate Jim Suptic. After the band broke up due to internal conflicts, Rob and Jim re-formed with Matt Pryor, who had been playing with Secular Theme and friend Nathan Shay on drums. After Shay was replaced with Rob's brother Ryan, the band recorded its first release,

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. After The Get Up Kids called it quits, Rob joined the band Koufax, along with his brother Ryan to form their new rhythm section. Together they recorded the album '' Hard Times are in Fashion'' in 2005. In the same year he joined the band White Whale to record their album

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. Soon afterward he joined the band

and recorded their album '' Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga''. He currently lives in

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. On July 9, 2019, it was announced that Pope was leaving Spoon.

Discography

with The Get Up Kids

*''

'' (1997) *'' Something to Write Home About'' (1999) *'' On a Wire'' (2002) *'' Guilt Show'' (2004) *'' There Are Rules'' (2011) *'' Kicker'' (2018) *'' Problems'' (2019)

with The New Amsterdams

*'' Never You Mind'' (2000)

with Reggie and the Full Effect

*'' Songs Not to Get Married To'' (2005)

with Koufax

*'' Hard Times are in Fashion'' (2005) *'' Why Bother at All'' (2005)

with White Whale

*''

'' (2006,

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)

with Spoon

*'' Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga'' (2007,

) *''

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'' (2010,

) *'' They Want My Soul'' (2014,

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Hot Thoughts ''Hot Thoughts'' is the ninth studio album by American rock band Spoon. It was released on March 17, 2017, through Matador Records. It is also the first Spoon album since 2002's ''Kill the Moonlight'' to not feature multi-instrumentalist Eric Harv ...

'' (2017, Matador Records) *'' Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon'' (2019, Matador Records)

References

Living people American rock bass guitarists American male bass guitarists Guitarists from Kansas Guitarists from Missouri The Get Up Kids members Spoon (band) members Year of birth missing (living people) Reggie and the Full Effect members The New Amsterdams members {{US-bass-guitarist-stub