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05.17.13 - Video & OHIO TONIGHT

Reeves & HiF will be performing tonight at The Village Idiot in Maumee, OH. 

Here's a video of the band performing "Wish You Were Her" at the Family Wash in Nashville from their last gig on May 10th.

 

 

05.09.13 - New Gig, New Music

Check out Jenn Vix new single "Speed of Light" featuring Reeves on guitar HERE, and then head over to iTunes to download the track.

In addition, check out RG&HiF this Friday night in Nashville...

 

04.01.13 - Coming to a Lollapalooza near you...

Lollapalooza 2013 Lineup: Mumford & Sons, The Killers, The Cure Headlining

 

02.19.12 - The Cure returns to South America!

April 4th 2013 – HSBC Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ON SALE 10:00am Feb 19th

http://www.livepass.com.br/

 

April 6th 2013 – Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil

ON SALE 12:01am Feb 18th

http://www.livepass.com.br/

 

April 9th, 2013 – Jockey Club, Asunción, Paraguay

ON SALE 10:00am Feb 18th

http://ticketshow.com.py/

 

April 12th, 2013 – River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina

ON SALE 12:01am Feb 4th

http://www.livepass.com.ar/

 

April 14th, 2013 – Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile

ON SALE 11:00am Jan 30th

http://www.puntoticket.com/

 

April 17th, 2013 – Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru

ON SALE 11:00am Feb 1st

http://www.tuentrada.com.pe/

 

April 19th, 2013 – Simon Bolivar Park, Bogotá, Colombia

ON SALE 10:00am Feb 1st

http://vive.tuboleta.com/

 

April 21st, 2013 – Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico

ON SALE 11:00am Feb 11th

http://www.ticketmaster.com.mx/

 

 

10.02.12 - Weekend shows!!!!

Reeves Gabrels and His Imaginary Friends at the Village Idiot!     Reeves Gabrels and His Imaginary Fr13nds at Zanzabar this Saturday, October 6th!

(click images for details)

 

09.21.12 - Two newly scheduled live appearances over the next few weeks:

Reeves Gabrels @ The Family Wash     Reeves Gabrels and His Imaginary Friends at the Village Idiot!

(click image for details)

 

08.24.12 - Guitars on Tour:  Fender VI

Reeves Gabrels playing a 1962 Fender VI bass with The Cure in Barcelona, 1 June 2012; Robert Smith at right. Photo by Javier Juárez.

 

On the guitar front, if there is a single instrument that makes The Cure sound like The Cure, in my opinion it's the Fender VI (six-string bass), with Robert Smith’s distinctive playing and use of it, not as a bass—totally  unnecessary when you have an incredible bass player like Simon Gallup—but as a unique guitar voice.

So, in rehearsals for this summer, when it was time to figure out what parts needed to be played in which songs, I was pleasantly surprised when Robert asked me to play the Fender on "Inbetween Days," "Push,” and “Primary.”

Since I do not own a Fender VI (though I did, for a time, own a Jerry Jones Danelectro-style six-string bass), Robert offered me one of his.

Thus the instrument I am playing on those three songs live is Robert Smith’s black 1962 Fender VI, which has a reddish tortoise-shell pick guard.  I’m sure it has a lot of stories to tell.  It has the three original Fender Jaguar-style single-coil pickups, plus three on/off pickup selector switches (one for each), as was standard for that era Fender VI.

The neck is a 30-inch scale, shorter than most other Fender bass guitars, and feels more like the neck of a Fender Stratocaster of like vintage. The strings I am using are lighter gauge than one would normally put on a regular bass.  All in all, perfect for a guitar player.

The electronics of this Fender VI have been modified with an additional tone control, so it has three knobs (volume, tone, tone) instead of the standard two (volume, tone).

Two small toggle switches were also added. One is a bass cut, which removes the lowest frequency tones from all six strings.  The other changes the phase of the middle pickup, resulting in a more nasal sound when used in combination with one or both of the other pickups.

My control settings on this instrument never change: Volume and tone controls all the way up (on 10); all three pickups on, in phase; with bass cut engaged (which keeps me out of the tonality occupied by Simon's bass).

The result: I have become a Fender VI fanatic, I look forward to playing it, and it’s one of my favorite things to do at every show.

Some notes about the sound and role of the Fender VI this summer:

Primary – The Fender VI plays in the same register (pitch range) as the bass, but has a brighter, thinner tone; Robert plays a six-string electric guitar.

Inbetween Days – I play the intro melody line on the Fender VI, in an upper register, yet the thicker strings give the line additional weight; for this song Robert is playing an acoustic guitar.

Push – Counterpoint (melodic interplay) among Robert, Simon and me.

 

08.19.12 - Guitars on Tour:  "The Tabby"

Reeves playing "The Tabby," his modified Reverend Reeves Gabrels signature model guitar (RG1) with The Cure in Barcelona, 1 June 2012; Robert Smith at right. Photo by Javier Juárez.

 

My grey Reverend Reeves Gabrels (RG1) guitar is nicknamed “The Tabby” because the transparent black wood stain on the highly figured maple grain face looks to me like the coat of a tabby cat.

I use this guitar for several songs every night on tour with The Cure.  In particular, it is essential for The Cure’s song "Wrong Number."

When I originally recorded the guitars on the studio version of Wrong Number in the late 1990s, I was still playing my sustainer-modified Parker guitar through a Roland VG8 modeling system.  The singing-feedback guitar lines that supply the melodic guitar hook of this song are dependent on having a sustainer pickup system allowing infinite, dependable sustain at any volume.  Plus, Wrong Number is the song where I am most in my natural element, so I need a perfect device for those improvisational, freak-out moments.

This guitar lets me do all of the above.  Here's why.

The Tabby may look pretty much like one of my standard RG1 signature model guitars, but it actually has been modified quite a bit, yet in not so obvious ways.  When I received the guitar from Reverend, it was a prototype for the RG1, a non-tremolo instrument. We were also still debating fret size, and unlike the eventual production model, the prototype didn't have quite the taller size frets I prefer.

Over the course of a year, then, this was The Tabby’s journey:

 -- The first thing to happen was that Steve Uncapher, at Rock Block Guitars in Nashville, refretted the neck with Dunlop 6100 fret wire.

 -- Next, I put on a Stetsbar tremolo -- which worked great.

 -- Then I shipped the guitar off to Sustainiac, to have one of their sustainers fitted.

 -- Not long after, we decided the next generation RG1 would have a factory-installed Wilkinson tremolo. Being partial to the traditional lever and fulcrum vibrato bar design, I sent the guitar back to Reverend.  They retrofitted my refretted neck and Sustainiac system into a new Wilkinson-equipped body, and sent it back to me.

 -- On the guitar’s return, I replaced the original Reverend bridge humbucker pickup with a Naylor Railhammer "Anvil" for extra heaviness of tone.

 -- Last of all, Doug Jarrell at Rock Block put in a kill switch – it’s at the lower end of the guitar body, just past the control plate, and allows me to "kill" entirely the output from the guitar. This lets me do staccato effects.

After all this, the only visible differences you might notice on The Tabby, other than the kill switch, are the two small toggle switches at the lower end of the pick guard. One switch turns the sustainer on/off, while the other lets me choose the type of feedback I want. The feedback choices are fundamental (the pitch I am playing), the octave-up overtone, or a blend of the two.

All of these mods are available through Reverend via special order.

I also use The Tabby on “One Hundred Years” because the guitar’s heavier tone, thanks to the Railhammer chisel pickup, seems appropriate.  I choose it as well to play “Want,” because of the controlled feedback it allows me to do underneath Robert’s vocal.

 

08.11.12 - Guitars on Tour: The Reverend "Reevito"

Reeves Gabrels playing the Reverend "Reevito" with The Cure at Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 1 June 2012. Photo by Javier Juárez.

 

"The mint green Reverend guitar I play on "The Edge of the Deep Green Sea," "The End," and "Disintegration" this summer with The Cure is actually a modified Rick Vito signature model.

 My own Reeves Gabrels II (RG2) signature guitar has a 25-1/4 inch scale length, as Fenders do. (Scale length is the distance between the nut or zero fret and the bridge.)  Yet in the course of our three-hour sets there are certain songs where I want to play a guitar that has a Gibson-type feel.  Something with a 24-3/4 inch scale length.  I find the shorter scale changes the way I play.  Hard to believe that 1/2 inch would make that much difference but it definitely affects my finger vibrato, making it wider.  At least I think so.  What I lose when the guitar does not have a vibrato bar seems to show up in my fretting hand and I enjoy that.  Plus, having a  shorter scale makes some slightly larger chord stretches easier to reach.  Just ask the late Tal Farlow.

 Before I headed to The Cure rehearsals in England, I was having a conversation with Chris Boyle at Rock Block Guitars in Nashville about how to solve my self-perceived need for a cool guitar with a Les Paul-ish look, 24-3/4 inch scale length, and two humbuckers. After listening to me ramble for a few minutes, Chris matter-of-factly pointed out that I should just speak to Reverend and see if they would modify a Rick Vito guitar for me.  Why didn't I think of that?  Sooo... I spoke to Ken Haas at Reverend and asked that he remove the pickups and substitute a Joe Naylor Railhammer Vintage humbucker in the neck and a Railhammer chisel humbucker in the bridge position. Ken thought it was a great idea. In fact, he had already done something similar to his personal Vito model guitar... It must be good to be the company president.

 The guitar reached me after the first summer festival show.  I took it out of the box and restrung it with my preferred gauge of Curt Mangan strings.  My friend and guitar tech Kan Lailey intonated it for the lighter strings, and I have been gigging with it since.  We started calling it "The Reevito" when a Facebook friend and apparent Reverend fan clocked what was going on and gave it the name... a hybrid of two Reverend endorsing musicians.

Guitar tweeker and cork sniffer section:

I discovered that, after switching out the original large single-coil pickups in the guitar, the folks at Reverend hadn't changed the pots for volume, tone and bass roll-off (a Reverend proprietary circuit) from the original 250 k value (for single coils) to the humbucker-appropriate (and industry standard) 500k value control pots.

The benefit of this accident is a throatier tone with warmer top end. I have done this on purpose in the past on guitars containing humbuckers that I found to be too harsh (my favorite for most humbuckers is a Gibson 300k pot) but this was a most pleasant surprise.

 The best way I can describe the tone of this guitar when it is wide open is to say that it falls in Mick Ronson/early Jeff Beck territory...  But that's ultimately in the hands of the player and the ear of the beholder.  Combine that with the wide range of tones from the standard Reverend wiring harness (reverse capacitance on the volume, for no loss of top end when you dial the volume down, plus the clever bass roll-off control) and the Reevito is a very versatile guitar.

 Some examples of why I like this guitar for certain songs:

From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea - I use wider vibrato in the solo, and more extreme pitch bends (made possible by the lighter string tension of the shorter scale).

Disintegration - In the guitar line I play in this song, the notes often move in pointillistic fashion, and I can execute wide chord voicings more elegantly thanks to the shorter scale length.

The End - The Reevito is rather "skittish" and more willing to give up notes in the form of feedback, which suits this song in live performance.

Just Like Heaven - I roll the bass contour off, and just plain enjoy playing this instrument for this song.

 

08.08.12 - Guitars on Tour: Reeves Gabrels on the guitars he's playing with The Cure, Summer 2012

"Starting today, I'll post about the instruments I'm playing with The Cure during this summer's festival tour in Europe, the UK, and Ireland.  Thanks to the reader of this page who suggested this, and another who shared stage photos of each of my guitars in action.  Here goes... see the next Note for a brief introduction of my "Orange RG2," a Reeves Gabrels II Signature Guitar by Reverend Guitars. Cheers, rg"

Reverend Reeves Gabrels II Signature Guitar  (Orange RG2)

Reeves Gabrels playing the Reverend RG2 with The Cure at Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 1 June 2012. Photo by Javier Juárez.

"The orange RG2 has been the workhorse of the summer Cure shows.  I’ve played 75% of every night on this guitar (which I had the chance to use live just once before heading into rehearsals with The Cure).

 The guitar is stock, as it arrived from Reverend. It has 2 Railhammer chisel pickups, a 3 position pickup selector switch, a pull/push true phase switch, and bass contour (roll-off).  The only difference from the stock setup is that I use .009 - .46 gauge strings, instead of the strings it is shipped with.

 The combination of features gives me a pretty wide palette to paint from.  By combining pickups and rolling the bass contour full off, I get a chimey Gretsch-like sound.  Stay with the same pickup selection, bass contour full off, add some distortion and it becomes a very angry Telecaster-like tone.  Dial the bass contour back up, and it’s a Peter Green Les Paul tone.  With these sounds, plus the usual tones of a two-humbucker guitar, the orange RG2 covers a lot of ground in the course of a Cure live set of 3+ hours.

For examples, listen to the orange RG2 during the following songs, where these tones appear:

 High – chimey Gretsch-like sound

 Just One Kiss; Let’s Go To Bed – snarly Telecaster sound

 Fight – tone à la Peter Green on a Les Paul

 Bananafishbones – two-humbucker tone"

 

07.07.12 - Jed Davis' new album Small Sacrifices Must Be Made (featuring Reeves on guitar throughout the album) was released today and is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD at music.jeddavis.com.

 

06.27.12 - Check out the new Alumni section of the Berklee College of Music website for a new interview with Reeves while currently on tour with The Cure.

In addition, there are a plethora of videos on YouTube of Reeves performing with The Cure throughout Europe on their current summer tour...too many to link to here. Do a search for "The Cure 2012" and enjoy!

 

05.26.12 - the BIG announcement.....

After a month of being sworn to secrecy, I can officially announce that Reeves Gabrels is a member of The Cure during their Summer festival tour throughout Europe.  Below is a video and photos of the band's performance at PinkPop 2012:

 

 

04.28.12 - SONIC MINING COMPANY

Sonic Mining Company is the latest collaboration from legendary guitarist Reeves Gabrels, prolific bassist Frank Swart   and naughty drummer Adam Abrashoff  who comibine to create seven tracks of complete improvisation exploring the outer boundaries of electric music. Inspired by the improvisational workings of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, Glenn Branca, Stockhausen, Hendrix, Coltrane and “anyone that blurs the line between sound and composition”, their Ropeadope debut comes out May 1.

 

04.20.12 - Check out RG&hIF at the Dallas Guitar Show on Saturday, April 21st @ 4pm. Visit http://www.guitarshow.com/ for more info.

 

04.19.12 - Video of RG&hIF performing at the Toledo School for the Arts on April 14, 2012.

 

 

04.10.12 - Reeves Gabrels and His Imaginary Friends will perform at the Toledo School for the Arts on Saturday, April 14th, at 1:30 p.m.  as well as at The Villiage Idiot in Maumee, OH, that same Saturday night at 9:30. For more information, visit http://tsaguitarfest.weebly.com/

 

04.09.12 -  Check out the May 2012 issue of Guitar Player featuring reflections on the 70th birthday of Jimi Hendrix.  Reeves provides great commentary on how things have changed since Hendrix as well as how things would be different if Jimi was still alive.

 

03.30.12 - Reeves & Ken Haas of Reverend Guitars talk about the evolution of the Reeves Gabrels Signature Guitar:

 

03.28.12 - Per Kevin Hornback's (bassist for Reeves) Facebook post:

"Tomorrow night, Thurs. 3/29 Reeves Gabrels and his Imaginary Fr13nds at the Family Wash!!! A new song or two, Jeff Brown returns on drums, and other surprises...really, I'll be as surprised as anyone. 9:30 is the agreed upon time."

 

03.24.12 - RG & Ken Haas of Reverend Guitars talk about Reeves's signature model:

 

 

02.07.12 - Check out Reeves' collaboration with Jenn Vix  on the song "In The House of Dark Shadows" on iTunes by clicking here.

01.26.12 - Two things...

REEVES GABRELS & HIS IMAGINARY FRIENDS will perform a secret unadvertised gig and other rituals this Saturday night, January 28th, at The Family Wash in East Nashville.

Reeves has contributed an article to the February '12 issue of Guitar Player Magazine.  The article discusses three ideas for providing "twisted" guitar textures based on concepts RG has used on his various recordings.  In other news, Reeves is apparently using his powers for time travel (as per the photo accompanying the article)...

 

12.10.11

12.06.11 - Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends perform this Wednesday night @ 9:30 PM at the Family Wash in East Nashville.  BE THERE!!!

 

11.29.11

11.21.11 - RG&HiF appeared on Episode IX of Not Just Country in Nashville.  You can see the episode now on YouTube at this link.

03.11 - Check out Reeves' performance on the song "Shadowlife" from J21's album Beyond The Holographic Veil by clicking here.  You can also learn more about the album by visiting Facebook.com/j21music.

10.22.11 - REEVES GABRELS and HIS IMAGINARY FRIENDS will be performing live in the studio this Saturday night (Oct. 22nd) at 12 am midnight on the Mando Blues Radio Show. Put on your tin foil hats and tune your interweb radio receivers to www.radiofreenashville.org

10.07.11 - Reeves & his Imaginary Friends will be performing at The Family Wash tomorrow night (Saturday, Oct 8th) in E. Nashville.  BE THERE!!!

09.20.11 - Reeves will be holding a guitar clinic on Saturday, September 24, @ 4:30 at the Southeastern Guitar Show in Raleigh, NC.  For more info, click this link.

09.14.11 - A great set of photos from Reeves' appearance at the From Nashville To Norway concert can be found at this link.

07.28.11 - Reeves is having his appendix removed today.  Wish him a speedy recovery on his Facebook page.

Also...for those looking for guitar lessons and are in the Nashville area, you may want to click on this link.

 

07.26.11 -  Vids O Plenty:

 

 

 

  

 

07.25.11 - Here is a video of Reeves performing with Carl Verheyen at the Guitar Player Superstar Competition on July 22nd during the Summer NAMM convention in Nashville.

 

 

07.14.11 -  Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends perform this Saturday, July 16th, at 9.30pm @ the Family Wash in East Nashville. You know you want to be there!!!!

07.03.11 - Just found this tasty tidbit on YouTube:

 

06.26.11 - NEWS! Just received some updates from Reeves that he has asked to be passed on. 

The first are three albums featuring Reeves to be download-only releases through iTunes, CDBaby, and other online retailers:

     - The debut album by The Magnificent Others (James Rubin, Reeves Gabrels, Frank Swart, & Marco Giovino) is to be released next week.  Follow the band on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/TheMagnificentOthers or check out their official site at www.TheMagnificentOthers.com for more info.

     - The industrial improvisational trio The Sonic Mining Company will also be releasing a new album in a few weeks. More info to follow.

     - Reeves' solo album (album tba) is to be released by the end of August.  Again, more info coming...

In addition, Reeves will be involved in three events during the Summer NAMM Show in Nashville:

     -On Thursday, July 21st, he will be performing for a live DVD shoot at "Boubon Street" for TrueFire;

     - On Friday, July 22nd, he will be one of the judges for the Guitar Player Superstar competition hosted by Larry Carlton; and

     - On Saturday, July 23rd, Reeves will perform once again at Muriel Anderson's All Star Guitar Night

06.10.11 - The July 2011 issue of Guitar Player should be called the unofficial Reeves issue.  Reeves makes three appearances in the magazine between pages 26-41.  The first is an image w/ caption concerning his performance at the Dallas International Guitar Festival, the second pictures and mentions Reeves' participation as a judge at Guitar Player's Guitar Superstar 2011 competition in Nashville during the Summer NAMM convention, and the third is his inclusion in an ad by Source Audio for their Multiwave Distortion product.

06.07.11 - Jed Davis of JEEBUS released a new track entitled "Two-Thirds" featuring Reeves on guitar.  Go to http://music.jeddavis.com/track/two-thirds to stream the song or name your own price to download the track.

05.31.11 - Catch RG & HiF this Friday, June 3rd, at the Family Wash in East Nashville.  Show starts at 9pm.

In addition, here is a recent interview Trace Foster did with Reeves:

 

 

05.05.11- Reeves on a variety of musical topics as interviewed by Terry Moshenberg of League Of Rock:

 

 

04.13.11 - Reeves Gabrels and His Imaginary Friends will be performing at the Dallas Guitar Show this Saturday, April 16th.  For more information about the Dallas Guitar show, go to www.guitarshow.com

03.19.11 - Just found out that RG & hIM is playing at the Family Wash tonight @ 9.30.  All you Nashvillians make your way there!

2.25.11 - Per his Facebook page, Reeves is playing with the SONIC MINING COMPANY on Saturday, February 26th at 10:30 pm @ This Bar, 6410 Charlotte Pike in Nashville.

01.31.11 - Check out the Guitar Player Magazine Bench Test of RG's signature guitar from Reverend Guitars (originally printed in the Feb '11 issue) by clicking here.

1.28.11 - Here's a video from NAMM '11 of Reeves giving a personal description of his signature guitar by Reverend Guitars.

 

 

01.23.11 - Reeves has been listed as 5 of the "great noisemakers" by Gibson Guitars.  Check out the article here.

Also, a review of Reeves' signature Reverend Guitars model appears in the Feb 2011 issue of Guitar Player magazine (pg 114).  Look for this to be posted on their website soon.

01.19.11 - Found this video on YouTube of RG&HIF playing at The Family Wash on New Year's Eve 2010.

 

01.12.11 - Reeves Gabrels to Demo His Signature Reverend Guitar at Winter NAMM 2011

David Bowie/Tin Machine/solo guitar legend Reeves Gabrels will be demoing his signature Reverend guitar at the Reverend booth #3090 on Friday and Saturday at 2PM. 

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12/30/10 - RG&HiF bassist Kevin Hornback posted on Facebook that the band will be performing at the Family Wash (East Nashville) on New Year's Eve:

 

"New Years Eve Show!!! Reeves Gabrels and his imaginary fr13nds at The Family Wash. We know it would be tough to celebrate the end of 2010 to all our harmonic density and intensity - so the 2nd set will feature Skeet Hanks fronting the band (w/ Drexel Sloan and Tyson Rogers) through some funky soul music and a champagne toast. Resovle to get down!"

 

12/04/10 - Per Reeves' Facebook page...

 

 

If you haven't joined Reeves on Facebook yet, you can do so at www.facebook.com/reevesgabrels.

 

 

10.07.10 - Per a Facebook Invite...

 

 

Saturday at 9:30pm

 

Escape
651 Marshall Avenue
Memphis, TN

REEVES GABRELS is known as one of the finest guitar players in the world. He was a member of TIN MACHINE and was DAVID BOWIE'S lead guitarist for many years. He has a signature Reverend guitar named after him as well. REEVES will be performing with his three piece band and will begin at 10:30. THE OLDEST PROFESSION (former members of THE ORGAN THIEF) will open for him beginning at 9:30 sharp. Food & Beer are served or Set-ups for Bring Your Own Poison. HANK & NORA will be performing in the small room from 7 to 9. Please come welcome Reeves to Memphis as he graces us with his presence from Nashville, which he currently calls his home. Any questions, please call Escape at 901-528-3337.

 

09.17.10 - Got a message from Reeves today with updates and news on the number of things going on with him:

 

"there are a ton of photos on facebook (facebook.com/reevesgabrels) from my gigs in norway. and i'll be in san francisco judging the guitar player superstar contest w/joe perry, elliot easton and george lynch.


"playing in memphis oct 9th, luxemborg (the country in europe) oct 23rd. in the studio working on my album (nashville). working on a band album with earl slick, michael houton and sterling campbell in ny. finishing up the magnificent others album with jamie rubin, marco giovino, frank swart and patti griffin."

 

07.03.10 - Just found Al Natanagara's Part 2 interview with Reeves which talks about his relationship with Reverend Guitars and how his signature model came about.  Click here to read.

 

06.16.10 - Catch RG&HIF on Friday, June 18th, at Bourbon Street in Nashville for the Reverend Guitars/St. Blues Guitars Summer NAMM party as well as on Saturday the 19th during the Spring NAMM edition of All-Star Guitar Night.

 

05.28.10 - RG is playing TONIGHT in Boston with Club D'Elf at the Lizard Lounge and tomorrow night in New Market, NH, at the Stone Church.  As Reeves put it, "it's a good couple of days for ambient dub avante jazz improv rock."

 

05.14.10 - Check out Reeves on page 32 of the July 2010 issue of Guitar Player.  The picture is from his appearance at Muriel Anderson's All-Star Guitar Night during Winter NAMM 2010 in Anaheim, CA.  You can also see the performance by clicking here.

 

04.27.10 - Reeves is currently in Nashville recording tracks for his 5th solo release.  The sessions include Kevin Hornback on bass, Jeff Brown on drums, and Tyson Rogers on B-3.  Follow Reeves as he checks in with updates on the sessions at www.facebook.com/ReevesGabrels

 

04.12.10 - Reeves Gabrels & his Imaginary Friends is performing TONIGHT at the Hard Rock Cafe in Nashville for a live taping for FOX's "Not Just Country".  Show starts promptly at 8pm in the HRC's new Reverb Room.

 

03.24.10 - Al Natanagara has conducted a new interview with Reeves, and Part 1 is posted on Al's interview blog, Tubgoat.  Click here to read.

 

02.19.10 - Live In Nashville

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02.03.10 - REEVES IN LONDON!  Click here.

 

01.22.10 - Check out Reeves demoing his new signature Reverend Guitar by clicking here.

 

01.18.10 - ReverendGuitars.com has a new 12 question interview with Reeves.  Read the article by clicking here.

 

01.06.10 - REVEREND GUITARS ANNOUNCES THE NEW REEVES GABRELS SIGNATURE MODEL GUITAR

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Specifications on the guitar can be found here.

 

12.31.09 - Shows O' Plenty! Check out the LIVE page for shows in CA, TN, and London (yes, that's in England).

  

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Also...check out the Jan 2010 issue of Guitar Player Magazine.  Michael Molenda talks about Reeves his Editor's Column.

 

10.29.09 - HALLOWEEN SHOW!!!

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10.26.09 - The website DigitalDreamDoor.com sights Reeves' compositions for the game "Deus Ex" the 9th Greatest Video Game Soundtrack of all time.  Check out the list here.

 

10.15.09 -

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08.24.09 - On September 9th, Reeves Gabrels & His The Imaginary Friends will make their first trip to Athens and play their first show since the July Tour of the East Coast. Click here for more details.

 

08.10.09 - JED DAVIS MIDWEST DATES


The band: Jed Davis on vocals & keyboards, Reeves Gabrels on guitar, Mike Keaney on bass, Matt Johnson on drums.

Mon, 10 August 10:30PM – Columbus, Ohio - The Scarlet and Grey Cafe, 2203 N High St, (614) 291-2347
www.scarletandgreycafe.com

Weds, 12 August 10PM – Madison, Wisconsin - The Frequency, 121 West Main St, (608) 819-8777
www.madisonfrequency.com (also on the bill: American Restless and Sylvia Beach)

Thurs, 13 August 7PM – St Paul, Minnesota - Eclipse Records, 1922 University Ave W, (651) 645-7724
www.myspace.com/eclipserecords651

Sat, 15 August 8PM – Lenexa, Kansas - Danny’s Bar & Grill, 13350 College Blvd, (913) 345-9717
www.dannysbarandgrill.com

 

07.31.09 - Reeves is playing guitar tonight with Jed Davis at The Bitter End in New York City tonight.  The band includes Jed (songs, vocals, keys), Tim Lefevre (bass), Anton Fig (drums) and "a cast of thousands". 8 pm set time.

 

07.28.09 - Three new items have been added to the Media section:

     - The first is an article on RG in TONEAudio, Vol. 22. 

     - The second is a RG-approved bootleg recording of Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends live on Day 6 of their 10-day Summer Mini Tour in Herkimer, NY. 

     - The final item is that Day 10 of the Summer 2009 Tour Blog has been posted.  You can read the new entry HERE.

 

07.24.09 - Reeves posted Days 8 and 9 on Guitar Player Magazine's website of his Summer 2009 Tour Blog.  You can read the new entry HERE.

 

07.23.09 - Days 6 and 7 of the Summer 2009 Tour Blog have been posted on Guitar Player Magazine's website but have been compiled HERE for your convenience.  That's just what we do.

 

07.21.09 - Days 4 and 5 of the Summer 2009 Tour Blog have been posted at guitarplayer.com, and they have been compiled HERE on reevz.net.  Check them out!

 

07.18.09 - Reeves mentioned in his latest interview (you have read it, right?  go to the MEDIA page if you haven't) that he is working with Reverend Guitars on a signature model.  Click the thumbnails below for pix of the prototypes from the Summer NAMM '09 show!!!

 

   

 

07.17.09 - Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends started their Summer 2009 tour on Wednesday (see dates to the right), and RG is writing a blog of their escapades at GuitarPlayer.com.  All entries are being compiled at reevz.net, so click HERE to read the blog and follow the tour!

 

07.08.09 - Two big news items to announce!  The first is the RG&HIF Summer Tour to commence on July 15, 2009, in Asheville, NC.  Dates are listed to the right, so look for an appearance that is nearest to you.  There is also talk of a Fall '09 tour that will take the band to other parts of the country, so check back often as those dates are scheduled.

 

The other big news is that I conducted an interview with Reeves this week as he prepares to leave Nashville for the tour.  The interview covers info on the tour, the band, new projects, and other tidbits of info.  You can read the interview by clicking HERE!

 

 

 

 

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