Reeves Gabrels

Reeves Gabrels born June 4 1956 is an American guitarist songwriter and record producer A member and guitarist of British band The Cure since 2012 Gabrels worked with David Bowie from 1987 to 1999 and was a member of the band Tin Machine He has lived in New York Boston London Los Angeles Nashville and New Yorks Hudson Valley His Nashvillebased band since 2007 Reeves Gabrels His Imaginary Friends features Gabrels on guitar and vocals As a guitarist Gabrels is recognized for his virtuosity and versatility able to explore sonic extremes with a great adaptive intuition for what each song needs most He has been characterized as one of the most daring rockguitar improvisers since Jimi Hendrix As a songwriter and composer Gabrels spans genres The songs on Ulysses an album from 2000 range from hardhitting blues rock to 21st century electronica as Guitar World put it Describing Rockonica in 2005 Guitar Players Andy Ellis wrote Gabrels walks the line between song structure and wiggy sonics like no one else His tunes on Rockonica have familiar versechorus construction and are often maddeningly catchy and his riffs and solos typically possess the contours that define classic rock But bubbling and roiling under and around this foundation are layers of eerie broken sounds and oddball textures And Gabrels isnt shy about juxtaposing genres For example Underneath ends with a trippy mélange of Wheels of Fireera Clapton licks acoustic Delta blues riffs and fluttering guitargenerated helicopter sounds