Hailing from Kansas City and mid-century America, Robert Steinhilber, AKA Catfish Rushdie, is a drummer/percussionist/animator/illustrator who was a founding member of Ska band The X-Streams in the 1970s in Los Angeles California. After discovering Jamaican music in London in 1971, he tripped around the US as a carny, hitchhiked all over Australia, went to Art School in Miami, then settled on the I-10 corridor between Phoenix and LA where he began his checkered career forming and playing in a variety of bands for the next few decades which includes stints with The Skanksters, X-Streams, Jerry's Kids, Victory Acres, Rhythm Clinic, Sun City Girl's Big Band, and Eddy Detroit. As the founding art director of BEAT magazine, he frequently appeared on KCRW's flagship radio show The Reggae Beat. As a designer, he has worked on LP covers for Lee Scratch Perry, The Heptones, and Bob Marley & The Wailers. As an animator, he started in the late '70s working under Al Brodax (Producer of The Beatles Yellow Submarine), created a controversial 7-minute film called That's My Terrorist (screened at the Scottsdale animated film festival in 2004) along with Cardiac Neurotic, an unreleased feature starring Sun City Girls. For the past few years, Rushdie has been spending time performing in Springfield Oregon and recording in Cairo Egypt where he's just finished his first solo album Count Your Blessings. He describes the record as "a musical dark comedy -- each song an impression of the early 21st century, with a couple of hangovers from the late 20th. A combination plate of novel diseases, social decay, cannibalism (carnivorous and financial), addiction, reckless driving, mass-media psyops, broken hearts, political assassination and genocide." The record also features an unlikely cast of players including Gilbert Zvmaida (guitarist for Thomas Mapfumo -- The Lion of Zimbabwe), Maurice McConnell (played with Zoot Horn Rollo), Sean Jackson, and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls). This CD edition is limited to only 200 copies and features a 6-page booklet insert with photos of the band members."