Raised by Italian circus midgets in the early part of the 20th century he was later schooled in music at the Detroit Michigan Correspondence School of Basic Music Fundamentals. He later applied at Julliard, Berkley, Stanford, UCLA, Cal-Poly and was finally accepted at the Birmingham Alabama Junior college. He was expelled three weeks into his first semester. Shortly there after, his talent was noticed by Jed Smith (street performer), and he studied under him for two weeks until Jed flew into a drunken rage and accused Sideshow of stealing his smokes.
Sideshow decided it was time to move to California. His big break came in the filming of Il Muerto, unfortunately the film score had already been developed, so Sideshow took up pyrotechnics. Two explosions, ten firemen and fifty six stitches later, his art was captured on celluloid's ugly cousin; Home Video. Finally, in 2004 Sideshow Bob formed High Voltage with long time jamming mate JB Diamond. They recorded the group's debut Demo LP High Voltage a year later in which Diamond played the maracas and sang a little.
Sideshow Bob is very approachable, and is willing to talk to almost anyone as long you are nice and agree with everything he says.
