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Louis - Lafayette Square St. Louis - Midtown St. Louis - North Downtown St. Louis - Riverfront St. Louis restaurant review magazine Sauce and other music magazines. He was the emcee at the final Guided by Voices show at Metro in Chicago on December 31, , and introduced Sleater-Kinney at their last touring show during Lollapalooza in He also introduced the Sam Roberts Band onstage on August 4, and spent their set dancing offstage.
He was seen again on August 5 at Lollapalooza introducing the rock band Dios and dancing with them onstage, and later introducing indie rock band Yo La Tengo. Born in St. Louis in , his parents divorced when he was very young, and he grew up between his mother's house on the South Side of St. Louis, his grandparents' house in Baden, and a nearby Catholic boarding school, Mount Providence now part of the University of Missouri—St.
Louis campus. One day during sixth-grade geography class, he was reading a Beatles magazine concealed within an open textbook. When the nun caught him, she snatched the magazine from him and exclaimed, "That will be enough of that, Beatle Bob!
After discovering The Beatles at a local record store near his mother's house on Michigan Avenue, Southside Music, Matonis and friends created a Beatles museum in one of their basements and charged visitors to get in.
As a youth, Matonis was also an autograph hunter. Matonis has always been single. He has been a vegetarian since , and has never smoked, drunk alcohol, or taken drugs. In the interview he said that he averages four hours sleep a night. He does not drive, and relies on rides from friends or public transport to attend shows. He is 6ft 3in. Matonis first adopted "Beatle Bob" as a nickname in , when he began contributing to the now-defunct music magazine Jet Lag.
His first review was of a concert by Jan and Dean. Louis, and then Southwest High School, graduating in Academic records state that he graduated from the University of Missouri—St.
Louis in with a degree in social work, though Matonis himself has cited as the date of his graduation. According to his employment record, he worked as a loader for the United Parcel Service from to Matonis started attending concerts in St.
Louis in the late s,, and by the early s had become a recognisable figure on the local concert circuit. According to one local musician, Matonis came to be considered a tastemaker, and his attendance at a concert meant that the band in question was "cool". Among local audiences, "there's a saying that if Beatle Bob is there, you're at the right show". Matonis claims to have been to at least one live show every night since Christmas Eve , and seen over 10, bands over the last decade, which he has chronicled in a "dance diary".
Louis on April 21, , as his all-time favourite concert. Matonis has said that his first concert, at the age of seven, was when his uncle took him to a Jerry Lee Lewis show in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, on 7 November According to Matonis, "my signature move is I get my right leg and I twist it behind my left like a bowling move, like you're bowling and then I twirl my right hand to the side like you're rolling dice".
Another common move involves a slow-motion tai chi style movement. A profile for local public radio station KWMU described it as "the most awkward, yet intense version of the "white man dance" you've ever seen". Matonis almost always dances alone, and his dancing style does not change according to the genre of music at the concert.
Though he started dancing in , Matonis cites the main inspiration for his solo dancing as observing a friend dancing compulsively at a Dwight Twilley concert in
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