Overview
Reeves Gabrels
Known For
The Cure at the BBC
A celebration of The Cure. Robert Smith's unique songwriting talents...
The Cure: Show of a Lost World Live at Troxy, London
To launch the album "Songs of a Lost World" on...
The Cure BBC Radio 2 In Concert
The Cure play an intimate performance with a selection of...
BBC Radio 2 In Concert - The Cure Live
The Cure perform live at the BBC Radio Theatre in...
BBC Radio 6 Music Session - The Cure Live
Huw Stephens from BBC Radio 6 Music welcomes The Cure...
The Cure - Primavera Sound São Paulo 2023
The Cure - Live In Mexico City 2023
The Cure perform live at the Corona Capital Festival in...
The Cure - Shows Of A Lost World At Wembley Arena, London
The Cure perform live at Wembley Arena, London on 13th...
The Cure: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2014
Biography
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 York's Hudson Valley. His Nashville-based 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 rock-guitar improvisers since Jimi Hendrix". As a songwriter and composer, Gabrels spans genres. The songs on Ulysses, an album from 2000, range from "hard-hitting blues rock to 21st century electronica", as Guitar World put it. Describing Rockonica, in 2005 Guitar Player's Andy Ellis wrote, "Gabrels walks the line between song structure and wiggy sonics like no one else... His tunes on Rockonica have familiar verse/chorus 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 isn't shy about juxtaposing genres. For example, "Underneath" ends with a trippy mélange of Wheels of Fire-era Clapton licks, acoustic Delta blues riffs, and fluttering, guitar-generated helicopter sounds."