Drummer Rob Affuso played in Skid Row since the band formed in New Jersey, USA, in 1986 by Dave "The Snake" Sabo and Rachel Bolan.



Rob Affuso started a new band called SoulSystems while he was still in Skid Row. It's a 12-piece R&B Funk band. Affuso:

"I've always loved that music, Earth Wind and Fire and James Brown and The Temptations and the O'Jays to name a few. I was always a huge fan of that music, and when we were together in Skid Row I'd come offstage and we'd get on the bus to go wherever and I'd always put that music on in my headphones and chill out in the bunk. And I decided one day when we were on tour that the next time we had off I was gonna start a band."

That happened back in 1991. Actually, Rob Affuso had never really played heavy metal until he was with Skid Row:

"I still don't know if I'd even still consider Skid Row a heavy metal band, but I was more into the lines of more progressive rock like Genesis and Rush. And so doing Skid Row with the hard rock/ heavy metal thing was a little different for me."