Reeves Gabrels

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Reeves Gabrels (born June 4, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer, and record producer.

Gabba, a member and guitarist of British band The Cure since 2000, worked with David Bowie from 1987 to 1999 and was a founding member of the band Tin Machine.

He has lived in New York, Boston, London, Los Angeles, and Nashville.

Reeves Gabls, a Nashville-based guitarist, is known for his virtuosity and versatility, as well as his ability to "explode sonic extremes with a keen, adaptable intuition for what each song needs." He has also been described as "one of the most innovative rock-guitar improvisers since Jimi Hendrix." Gabberls, a singer and composer, spans genres."

"Reeves Gabby walks the line between song structure and wiggy sonics like no one else," Guitar World reviewer Gary Graff wrote online, and his riffs and solos often follow the same contours that define classic rock.

Layers of eerie, broken sounds, and oddball textures are also bubbling and roiling under and around this foundation.

Gabbyls isn't shy about comparing genres.

'Underneath' comes as a trippy blend of Wheels of Fire-era Clapton licks, acoustic Delta blues riffs, and fluttering, guitar-generated helicopter sounds.'

Early life and education

Reeves Gabrels was born in Staten Island, New York City, New York, in June 1956. Claire Gabbels, a typist, and his father, Carl Winston Gabls, served as a deckhand on tugboats in New York Harbor.

Reeves began playing guitar at the age 13, and his father, who lived in the area, arranged lessons for the father's friend and contemporary Turk Van Lake. Van Lake was a professional musician who performed with Benny Goodman and others.

Gabls studied design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City and continued to play guitar after high school. John Scofield, a jazz guitarist, from whom he took several lessons, was introduced to him. Gabls moved to Boston to attend the Berklee School of Music, after being inspired by Scofield's example and guidance. He left Berklee without a degree in 1981, yet valuing his time at Berklee.

Personal life

Susan Van Wie Kastan and Gabrels married in Saratoga Springs, New York, in January 2018. Since 1998, a couple and his partner since 1996, they now live in Troy, New York, where her family roots are located and where they spent their time in the Catskills, where he attended high school. Susan Gabls is the business manager of her husband and his band Reeves Gabls & His Imaginary Friends. Both spouses were previously married and divorced. Sara Terry, an American journalist, was married by Gabls in 1985. Gabrels first became Bowie's best friend after Terry's work as a Press agent for the Glass Spider Tour in 1987.

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Career

Gabby began his musical career in Boston in earnest, relying on his performance experience from high school. He was a member of bands including The Dark, Life on Earth, The Atom Said, Rubber Rodeo, The Bentmen, and Modern Farmer during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1993, Modern Farmer (Gabrels, Jamie Rubin, David Hull, and Billy Beard) released a collection of original rock songs, titled "Hard Row to Hoe on Victory/Universal.

During a Bowie tour for which Sara Terry, Gabbie's then-wife, worked as a publicist, David Bowie and Gabriels met in 1987. Gabbie's first project on which Gabbie performed was a reimagining and rearrangement of the song "Look Back in Anger" and its live performance combining dance, music, and projection as part of a grant for London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), 1988. The resultant score was 7+1 minute long, though Bowie and Brian Eno's song was originally composed for three minutes and then broadcast on Lodger (1979). Bowie performed, performed, and performed with members of the avant-garde group La La Human Steps; Gabls and two other singers appeared onstage throughout; In a video interview, Bowie said, "I like the hard-edged wall of guitar sounds that we built into it."

Gabbie and the Sales Brothers (drummer Hunt Sales and bass player Tony Sales) formed the rock band Tin Machine from 1989 to 1992. Gabbie kept working with Bowie, becoming an integral part of Bowie's nineties music, including Outside (1995), Earthling (1997), and Hours (1999), both of which he co-produced. A Grammy award was given to "Dead Man Walking," a Bowie/Gabrels song from Earthling. Gabels and Bowie also produced the soundtrack to the computer game Omikron: The Nomad Soul in 1999 for the game's French publisher. Gabbie ceased his professional relationship with Bowie in late 1999. For VH1 Storytellers' last stage appearance with Bowie, it was a performance that was recorded in New York City.

During rehearsals for Bowie's 50th Birthday Concert, held on January 9, 1997 at Madison Square Garden in New York, Robert Smith of the Cure and Reeves Gabls first met. Smith was invited by Bowie to perform as one of a select group of guest performers at this festival, for which Gabls was the musical director. A friendship developed, resulting in new collaborations throughout the year. For the Reeves Gables album Ulysses (Della Notte), Gabyls and Smith co-wrote a song, "Yesterday's Gone" and recorded it, with Smith guesting on vocals. Gabe performed lead guitar on the Cure's single "Wrong Number" and appeared on stage with the Cure for several songs ("Wrong Number" included) on selected nights of a fall US tour in 1997. Gabels, Smith, and the Cure's drummer Jason Cooper (as COGASM) wrote and recorded "Sign From God" for Orgazmo, a Trey Parker film.

Smith and Gabe stayed in touch, leading to Gabbls' appointment as guitarist for the Cure, first as a guest at a string of summer festivals in 2012, after which he became a member of the band. Gabbyls was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2019 as a Cure member, having been left off the list of nine current and former members.

Reeves Gabls & His Imagined Friends is the singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter for his own band.

About a year after Gabby moved from Los Angeles, the trio formed as a trio in Nashville. Gabberls (guitar, vocals), Kevin Hornback (bass) and Jeff Brown (drums) were the main players for seven years. Marc Pisapia, a drummer who had been suspended when Brown's schedule conflicts arose, became the main drummer (and harmony vocalist) in 2015.

Gabls and the band appeared often at Family Wash in Nashville and tour nationally, including a ten-gig outing on a shoestring in 2009, which the guitarist wrote about a Guitar Player magazine.

Reeves Gabls and His Imaginary Friends started recording songs they'd performed live in 2010, despite the fact that mixing, mastering, manufacturing, and release were outside their means at the time. Then Gabls joined The Cure, which helped with budget but with difficult schedules. Gaborls talked to British magazine Guitarist in a 2014 interview about the recording process and the unexpected ways the hiatus before its publication had contributed to the creative process. In January 2015, the album came out for the final time.

During October 2014, Gabbyls, Hornback, and Brown performed in small venues and pubs in England. They toured the United States in the summer of 2015, with Pisapia on drums and new CDs on hand, then on to their second tour of England in the fall, with the exception of a digital-download-only single named "Try," which was exclusively on Bandcamp. In 2015, a final US show in Nashville was recorded, resulting in the release of Imaginary Friends Live, two years later. While the Cure was on a world tour in 2016, the threesome returned to action in July 2017, October 2017, and March 2018.

Gabbiols has released six albums as the principal songwriter, singer, guitarist, and bandleader. Reeve Gabls' new book The Sacred Squall of Now (Rounder/Upstart, 1995); Ulysses (Della Notte); live...loud (Myth Music/Favored Nations/Sony, 2005); and Rockonica (Myth Music/Favored Nations/Sony, 2005).

Ulysses was nominated for a Yahoo!

The 1999 Internet Award was a then-pathbreaking Internet pioneer before becoming available on CDs the following year. "Jewel," a Ulysses song, features vocal and instrumental performances by Bowie, Dave Grohl, and Frank Black. Gabels performed both Rockonica and live in Los Angeles with musical associates like Paul Ill (bass), Brock Avery (drums), and Greg McMullen (pedal steel guitar).

Reeves Gabls & His Imaginary Friends as artist name and name, released digitally at Bandcamp and on CD in January 2015. Reeves Gabels & Rob Stennett were co-producers. Gabbyls can sing, play guitar, and directing the band, a power trio with Kevin Hornback on bass, and Jeff Brown on drums are among the originals and covers. Guests musicians also appear, including the band's new drummer Marc Pisapia's playing background vocals. In the American monthly Vintage Guitar, Reeves Gabls & His Imaginary Friends received their first print review (June 2015).

Imaginary Friends Live, Gabby Gabls' sixth album, came out on Bandcamp on October 1, 2017, and it remains a download-only publication. During a live performance at The Family Wash/Garage Coffee's relocated premises on Main Street in East Nashville, Tennessee, it was captured on a single night. Michael Ross' album "Top Records of 2017" named the live album as one of 13 "Top Songs of 2017" by Michael Ross in Guitar Moderne. The editors of Premier Guitar also selected it for the "Best Music of 2017" series. Ted Drozdowski of PG: "Reeves Gabbs - Imaginary Friends Live" in which Gabls rewrites the rock guitar bible in 11 live performances packed with so much invention that it's head spinning. I was at Family Wash in Nashville the night this set was recorded, but it wasn't until I heard it here that my mind was utterly blown by the former Bowie/current Cure axe-destroyer's execution. Every song is packed with 'holy fuck' qualities: epic tones, killer riffs, brilliantly tossed-off fills, and digressions, as well as solos that soothe, stun, and drip with lysergic intelligence. Raw and impeccable at the same time. This is an essential collection if you like rock guitar that straddles the trad and the rad with utter authority.

No bullshit!"

Gabe has produced soundtracks for films including David Sutherland's Wife (premiered on PBS September 1998 and PBS PBS productions), and he appeared in "Go Cat Go" for Spike Lee's "He Got Game," a Def Jam commercial from 1998. He produced the "club music" part of the Deus Ex soundtrack.

Gabels have performed as a guitarist for solo performances by singer Paul Rodgers in late 1993/early 1994, and as a guitarist for New York-based punk band Jeebus in 2009.

Gabore, a 1998 album by singer-songwriter Jeffrey Gaines, stars Gabbie Gabls on guitar, as well as Bowie bandmates Gail Ann Dorsey and Zachary Alford.

Gabls performed with Southern California musicians in various genres from 2000 to 2005 in Los Angeles, where he was not concentrating on his own music live and recorded. Gabard "Gerry" Duran, a singer and keyboard player, recorded guitar on several albums by the band Los Duran. Big Swede, a drummer and producer, released an electronica album titled Sonicnauts, as a pair dubbed Protecto.

Big Swede, a Los Angeles-based drummer, was X-World/5, a Heavy Metal supergroup made up of guitarist Andy LaRocque, singer Nils K. Rue, bass player Magnus Rosén, and Big Swede on drums, with guitarist Andy LaRocque, drummer Brandon Nils Rosén. New Universal Order, their first album, was released in 2008 by German label AFM Records. It was re-released by the band/Big Swede in 2015.

Gabbls has performed regularly in Nashville, Tennessee, his home since 2006. He was a regular at The Family Wash, an East Nashville restaurant/music venue that closed in 2018, but before that, there was a long run of diverse music programming, thanks to Gabin's longtime friend and associate. When Gabbyls first arrived, he became a guitarist for Brandon Giles & the Tricky Two, which performed in bars and clubs on Nashville's Lower Broadway and occasionally on tour. Gabls appeared in "From Nashville to Norway" festivals in Gjvik, Norway, which were sponsored by friends from both countries in 2010 and 2011. He first appeared at the 5 Spot venue in 2014 when he was able, with guitarist Tim Carroll. Carroll's band featured drummer Steve Latanation and late bass player Bones Hillman (who later returned to working with his longtime band Midnight Oil) at the time.

Several collaborative recordings emerged out of Gabbols' Nashville performances. Jamie Rubin's songs and lead vocals appear in The Magnificent Others, with Gabls on lead guitar. Gabberts (guitar), Frank Howard Swart (bass), and Adam Abrashoff (drums) created Sonic Mining Company, a Ropeadope Records 2012 release.

Gabls has performed guitar parts on selected recordings by other artists over the years, including songs by gODHEAD and Jenn Vix, a bass player and vocalist from Providence, Rhode Island. The Mission, Deaf School, Sandie Shaw, The Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, and others have all recorded with Gabls guitar tracks.

Gabbyls contributed guitars to Big Scenic Nowhere's sophomore album, The Long Morrow, in 2021-2022.

Gabbyls appears on occasion with Club d'Elf, a Boston-based instrumental group led by bassist Mike Rivard. Their shows are largely instrumental, and they emphasize lengthy, improvised songs that discuss jazz, Moroccan music, electro, and other genres. Gabels appears on Now I Understand, their first studio album; the album also features John Medeski and Billy Martin, DJ Logic, Mat Maneri, Alain Mallet, Mister Rourke, and others; Gabriol "has the opportunity to meander and harmonically poke at things, making the music exciting," he said in a Berklee College of Music interview in 2012. He went on to say that free improvisation aids in his success in various settings, including on stage with the Cure, "to refine it down to situations where the world loses its axis for two bars," but that does not necessarily follow the song and its lyrics.

David Tronzo, an American slide guitarist and Gabbels, performed in Club D'Elf and Gabels recorded Night in Amnesia, which was released by Rounder Records in 1995. Bill Nelson, the British guitarist, (Be-Bop Deluxe, Bill Nelson's Red Noise) and Gabls released a rather different experimental guitar-duo album, Fantastic Guitars, together in 2014.

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