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Bobby Revell’s Guitar Advice 03-24-07

If you can play fast, shred, burn, shave heads, then that is what it becomes exactly. When something is old or dead or in the way, you burn it. I know that Montel Williams shaves his head often(not that often) not because of its soulful, atmospheric magic. If on a song you “burn” a scale [...]

A Thousand Reflective Poly-cognitions

One afternoon I was driving on an extremely busy four lane highway during Christmas traffic while on the phone in a serious conversation with a former employer.
Subconsciously I studied about twenty separate situations; some dealing with traffic, some with a song on the radio, etc, etc, hearing tiny slices of passing conversations and so on. [...]

Alive Becoming

This was written by my vehicle, or rather the one who sees me when they “look in a mirror” by not trying. If one tries to understand reality, they become confused and create false rationalizations stemming from their own human nature.
Let reality understand you and balance then can be nurtured. True self realization often leads [...]

Bobby Revell’s Guitar Advice 03-08-07

I have always been a “fast” guitar player pretty much–It seems natural to me. For you practice freaks you will relate to this: Originally when I developed my first fast scale it was starting on a down stroke on a 3 note per string pattern. Down-up-down-down (I used 2 down strokes when changing strings [...]

Eleven

Eleven minds are my prisons of enslavement
under thickened layers
suffocating
my churning nightmare
doth seared a bloody trench
blistered misery
from eleven minds
an excretion of truth
unremembered by forgotten voids
of empty nowheres
Eleven eyes stare back from shards of broken mirrors
burning to ashes in my crypt of shattered minds
I cry storms of blood from my eyes I see
a grave of memories in [...]