a-bomb drums and percussion
MALCOM XXX - Upright Bass and backing Vocals
Ravelstein - The Soul and the Rhythm
gerry-cello and music knowledge
Influences
Ray Charles,John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Niel Diamond, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, ELVIS, Curtis Mayfiled, Barry White,Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Quincy Jones, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, RAT BASTARD, Tom Smith(to live in shave in La), Bill Orcutt, Dan Hosker, Hank Williams ,Willie Nelson, My Bloody Valentine..............
Imagine a man........ the youngest son of Japanese
Jewish immigrants. Ravelstein is full of jokes, one-liners, and Catskill comedian
gags which capture a distinctly first-generation Japanese Jewish American voice, wit, neuroses, manners, affectations, cultural collisions, and intellectual passions. Ravel is elegant and uproariously fragile/dysfunctional. Tender, risqué, intellectually stimulating, full of brilliant and
often wicked conversation. Ravel encompasses everything from the sublime
to the vaudevillian. Ravelstein, a declared Platonist, believes that the highest purpose
of friendship is the formation of an artistic community of potential Truth seekers who
are also searching for relationship with their souls or true halves. Ravelstein gets his erotic teachings from Aristophanes and Socrates, and his moral vision from the Bible. Therefore, he affirms His KOKORO SOUL to assume responsibility for the fact that he is a Japanese Jew still living in America and to keep on trucking into the increasing storm of his career. Ravelstein songs has been called a biographical harmony, a eulogy, a memoir, a threnody, a roman à clef, the chronicle of Love, a valediction, a Kaddish, a Zen koan, and an autoethnography.
NIGHT OF WEIRDS TOMORROW NIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!TUES OCT 27TH@ HARVEY'S BAR IN THE AMERICAN LEGION 6445 NE 7TH AVE MIAMI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!TAKE 64 STREET EAST FROM BISCAYNE BLVD AND ITS ON THE LEFT BEFORE YOU HIT LEGION PARK!!!!!!!!!FREE SHOW STARTS AT 8PM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HAUNTED HOUSE UPSTAIRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HERES THE SCHEDULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8PM JOCE 820 DARK AND STORMIES 840 PEASANTS WITH FEATHERS 9PM DISMAS GESTAS 920 RE RE 940 MEGACUNT 10PM RAVELSTEIN 1020 PUPPETREE 1040 BOISE BOB AND HIS BACKYARD BAND 11PM ANIMALS OF THE ARCTIC 1120 HAHAHELP! 1140 SPACE VOODOO CRYSTAL 1200 ANA MENDEZ AND FREDERICO NESSI 1220 TOTALLY NEBULAR 1240 ELECTRIC BUNNIES 1AM SWEET TALKERS 120 JACUZZI BOYS 140 WEIRD ALESTEIR CROWLEY 200 MAKESHIFT DIAPER
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