What is a Reventlo, anyway?  No one knows for sure, but some say that the band copped the name from playboy/racecar driver Lance Reventlow, who, if you believe the legend, was the last man to share a brew with James Dean before Dean was sent to hell on a lonely California road.  Their music is even harder to pin down, a heady emulsion of every influence they’ve managed to soak up since they first plugged in a guitar.  They call it “death-surf/Afro-billy”, and they hope you have as much fun listening to it as they did making it.  Together since 1995, and after three albums, one is left to wonder how they keep coming up with new musical ideas.  “It’s easy”, says head writer and evil genius Greg Staples.  “We steal from anyone.  If you don’t like one song, wait for the next---it will be completely different”.  Believe it.  The Reventlos stock in trade is to take a revered musical form, trash it, then reassemble it into something altogether unique and different.  The results can be intoxicating, and you will definitely dig it.  As an instrumental band, they often get lumped in with the surf crowd.  The purists don’t know what to make of them, and tweaking purists of all genres has become a rewarding by-product of their music.  Get a Reventlo CD now, and crank it up.  Thanks for listening!
                                                                                                                              Gaspar du Venchey, Antwerp, 2007

The Reventlos are:
 Greg Staples, guitar.  Greg has a rather mysterious day job working for the Federal Government, and the stress of leading a double life no doubt generates his more bizarre musical contributions.  He really needs to calm down.
 Matt Quilter, guitar.  Matt plays in a bar band for money, but needs the Reventlos as a creative outlet.  His personal life is in shambles.
 Rick Staples, bass.  Rock history tells us that having brothers in the same band usually means constant bickering, family baggage, sullen brooding, etc.  No argument here.
 Lee Kix, drums.  Lee has his own communications business, which is ironic, since the rest of the band can never get hold of him.

 

 

 

 

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