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Reeves Gabrels
Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
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…
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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."
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2026
The Cure - Rock en Seine 2026
Movie Self
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2026
The Cure - Maia North Festival 2026
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2026
The Cure - Primavera Sound 2026 Barcelona
Movie Self
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2025
Bowie: The Final Act
Movie Self
- 2025
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2025
The Cure: The Show of a Lost World
Movie Self
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2024
The Cure at the BBC
Movie
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2024
The Cure: Songs Of A Lost World
Movie Guitar
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2024
The Cure - BBC Radio 2 In Concert
Movie Self
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2024
BBC Radio 6 Music Session - The Cure Live
Movie Self
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2023
The Cure - Primavera Sound São Paulo 2023
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- 2023
- 2022
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2020
The Cure: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2014
Movie Self - Musician
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2019
The Cure : Live Rock en Seine
Movie Self
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2019
The Cure - Flow Festival 2019
Movie Self
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2019
The Cure Live At Exit Tribe Festival 2019
Movie Self
- 2019
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2019
The Cure - CURÆTION-25: From There to Here | From Here to There
Movie Self - Guitar / Vibass
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2019
The Cure - Disintegration In Sydney
Movie Self
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2013
The Cure: Voodoo Festival Live
Movie Self
- 2012
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2009
David Bowie: VH1 Storytellers
Movie Self
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1998
The Farmer's Wife
TV show Original Music Composer
- 1997
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1997
David Bowie & Friends: A Very Special Birthday Celebration
Movie Self - Guitar & Vocals
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1996
David Bowie - Kremlin Palace Moscow
Movie self
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1995
David Bowie: The Making of "1.Outside"
Movie Self
- 1995
- 1989
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1987
Sacrée soirée
TV show Self - Tin Machine
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1982
Champs-Elysées
TV show Self - The Cure
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1975
Saturday Night Live
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The Cure Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2019
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