Armand Schaubroeck

Armand Philip Schaubroeck (born January 20, 1944) is an American rock musician, radio host, and frontman of the band Armand Schaubroeck Steals. He is the co-owner of the House of Guitars in his hometown of Rochester, New York.

Schaubroeck hosts "Armand Schaubroeck Spins Vinyl" every Saturday at 3pm on WRFZ in Rochester, NY. The new weekly episode airs two other times each week on Rochester Free Radio (WRFZ). Tuesdays at 1pm and late Thursday into Friday at midnight. Older episodes air at midnight late Sunday thru Wednesday. His show specializes in the music he has listened to in his lifetime.

Early life Armand Philip Schaubroeck was born on January 20, 1944, in Illinois.

In 1962, at the age of 17, Schaubroeck was sentenced to three years in prison for committing 32 burglaries, targeting groceries, hardware stores, schools, and even a church. Convicted of safecracking, he was incarcerated at the Elmira State Reformatory, a maximum-security prison in New York. However, he served only a year and a half before being released on parole.

In 1966, Armand Schaubroeck, sought out Andy Warhol through the local phonebook with the idea of a rock opera based on his own experiences within the U.S. prison system. WXXI later stated "no one was really doing concept albums in 1966". Warhol liked the idea, but due to a busy schedule, the collaboration never materialized, the album would go unrecorded until 1975, when it was released as "A Lot of People Would Like to See Armand Schaubroeck ... DEAD".

Schaubroeck's time in prison became a recurring theme in his work, influencing the name of his later band "Armand Schaubroeck Steals" which formed after the dissolution of the Church Mice in 1967.

By 1972, Armand had launched a campaign for New York State Senate and the House of Guitars had relocated to a former three story mason's hall nicknamed “The largest guitar store in the world” and sometimes “The store that ate my brain” on 645 Titus Ave in Irondequoit where it still stands today, Schaubroeck would later become an advocate for prison reform and gay rights.

Discography A Lot of People Would Like to See Armand Schaubroeck ... DEAD (1975) I Came to Visit; But Decided to Stay (1977) Live at the Holiday Inn (1978) Shakin' Shakin (1978) Ratfucker (1978)