Robt Ptak (born October 13, 1970) is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, and record producer who is the co-founding member and bassist/backing vocalist for 1990s pop punk band Size 14.

Career

Size 14

The band Size 14 was formed when Ptak placed an ad in a Los Angeles classified magazine. Ptak and bandmate

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recorded all of the band's early demos on Ptak's 8 Track. Ptak can also be heard singing backing vocals and the high falsettos parts on the band's songs. Ptak left the band in 1997 and was replaced by Ray Santangelo.

Other projects

In 1996 Ptak toured with

Jakob Dylan Jakob Luke Dylan (born December 9, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter. He rose to fame as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter of the rock band the Wallflowers, which he formed in 1989. Born in New York City to musician Bo ...

as a bass player and backup vocalist, playing songs from the album titled "

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" during which he recorded "Pain in my Head", with Andrew Slater Dylan's manager, which was engineered by Tobi Miller of

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. Ptak was involved with

between the years 1996–1997 when Size 14 was signed. Later Ptak moved to New York City to start a live version of his solo-project Artificial Joy which consisted of singer Milena Mepris (who later went to form

Pin Me Down Pin Me Down were a pop/electronica/rock side project of guitarist Russell Lissack, of the British band Bloc Party, and guitarist/singer Milena Mepris. The band was managed by Robt Ptak, who had previously worked with Mepris in Ptak's project A ...

), bassist Mark Cevellos, and drummer Alex Elena. Later, drummer John Lamkin also joined. The band produced one 7 track CD. After Artificial Joy disbanded, Ptak played bass and guitar on

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's album titled "Believer" in 2001, along with Laura Dawn, Carl Glanville, Ted Niceley,

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, Simeon Spiegel and

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. Ptak also formed the rock band

The Bastard Kings of Rock The Bastard Kings Of Rock were a local New York rock band formed by American bassist Robt Ptak, of the band Size 14. The band was started after Ptak's formed band Artificial Joy disbanded in 2001. The Bastard Kings Of Rock were a three piece gr ...

with Ptak on Lead vocals and lead guitar, Aristotle Dreher on bass and Michael Hamilton on drums, the band split up in 2004, after which Ptak focused on management and production.

Work as manager

Ptak was the manager of Pin Me Down the side project from

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guitarist

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and Artificial Joy singer Milena Mepris. Ptak and Renee Frisch also executive produced the band's album, while Alex Elena was the album's producer.

Current

Robt Ptak has released demos/studio recordings via a

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page through the name DPG MEDIA. Ptak has also released some of this music via his Facebook Musician Page.

Bands

Discography

Size 14

* "Size 14" (1997)

Laura Dawn album

* "Believer" (2001)

References

External links

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