Producer, guitarist, sound designer, engineer, and teacher, Bob Rice has spent the last 30 years in the La area, and abroad, gainfully employed in music production, Tv, and film.
Throughout his career, Rice has worked as a touring keyboard technician, synth programmer, sound designer, Midi systems designer and/or digital playback engineer, in the studio or on the road with: Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Roger Waters, Michael Jackson, Chick Corea, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, Lyle Mays, Stanley Clarke, Brian Wilson, Ben Harper, George Michael, Bon Jovi, among others.
In the studio, Rice has acted as producer, production manager, co-producer, tracking and mixing engineer, music editor, mastering engineer.
Rice has contributed synthesizer programming to a number of Grammy Award winning recordings, including Frank Zappa’s Jazz From Hell and Civilization Phaze Iii, Chick Corea’s Light Years and Five Peace Band - Live.
In 2019 Rice co-produced to Lyle Mays posthumous release, Eberhard—Grammy winner for Best Instrumental Composition at the 2022 Grammy Awards.

Rice maintains his own studio in Culver City, Ca, where he provides music production, sound design, mixing for music and film, audio editing services, transfers, digital restoration, mobile recording services, and Cd mastering.

You said some time ago that the main characteristics of being unsuccessful are inconsistency and dishonesty, right?
Yes.
But if you were forced to reduce everything to just one feature, which of the two would you choose?
Dishonesty.
Why?
You see, the inconsistency itself is not so terrible. I’ve met very inconsistent women but that didn’t make them any less lovable! If a man came to me, and said “I am inconsistent, and I admit it” I would not think badly of him, and I could even respect him. But when a guy comes along whose inconsistency is blatant, and yet he claims to be “perfectly consistent,” then I know I’m dealing with a sleazy crook whose entire existence is based on lying, and that disgusts me.
I understand.
Well.