Marc Fernandez, Lawrence Schwartz, Sam Retzer, Dan Mylotte, featuring the contributions of Jeremy Adelman, Taylor Haskins, Drazen Bosnjak, Adam Stieglitz, Charles Neal, and the Petitioners.
Syd Barrett, Stanley Kubrick, Belle and Sebastian, Fab Four, Grateful Dead, Daniel Johnson, the Doors, the Seventies, the Sixties, the Eighties, the Nineties.
Ron Revog was formed in 1995 in a New York apartment on west 47th St. Marc Fernandez and Lawrence Schwartz, two mates from the University of Miami looking for love in all the wrong places, picked up their acoustic guitars and hit the ground running. Taking a break from their weekend Beatles covers at Central Park's Strawberry Fields, the lads soon convinced another former UM student Dan Mylotte to come to NYC and help lay down the 12 Hour Sessions in Soho. This album caught the ear of Marc's co-worker Sam Retzer, in no small part due to the sizzling guitar work of Dan Mylotte and psychedlic rants of Schwartz / Fernandez. Around this time Sam admitted that he was a bit put off by the band's public displays of Lennon affection, and he split for LA, Lawrence soon bolting for Frisco. Dan movong to Boston to continue his formal musical education and leaving Fernandez all alone in the big city.
As years passed and Marco's guitar got rusty, a chance encounter at a video game conference put Sam and Marc back in touch, and before you could say non disclosure agreement they had cut the Dirty Bird sessions in Sams ghost dog of a pigeon infested studio. Marc took the red eye back to his new home in Nolita inspired to breathe new life into the band.
It was at the dawn of the new millennium that Marc really hit his stride as a songwriting force. After the raw emotion of the Dirty Bird sessions, he teamed up with some of NYCs hottest electro producers to cut Reflexology a deliciously sarcastic trip to the dance floor. Lawrence made his way back into the fold with the brilliant Bit Vice and Flex (as it became to be known) was soon followed by the Geneology and Ronnie Misses the Revogs albums. Not for the faint of heart, these albums showcased Marcs stream of conscious man-alone-with-a-guitar rants, as well as introducing dizzying elements of psychedelia to the mix. (Wiggly Woo Chestnuts and Apricots)
Perhaps the biggest turning put as the aughts began, was Revog's return to the full band format, as heard in tunes such as "Brazilian Coffee" and "Girls from Vals." The revitalized band sound would reach a peak with the Instant Classic and What's Not To Like? albums...
(bio in progress)
This photo recently surfaced in the British tabloids. It's likely that it was taken in Switzerland sometime between the shooting of Ronnie's first film 'Revogula' and the start of the '72 world tour, which ended with Ronnie's sudden disappearance into a Thai prison for the next three years. Ronnie still maintains that the dope wasn't his and that the 16-year old Cambodian girl was just along "for the tea and cakes. "
I think what that guy was saying, if I can make out that weird southern-ish accent, is "a piedmont blues man." But honestly a defunct blues band is probably funnier so we'll just go with that. You never can tell with these old field recordings. Anyway, could be a fake. Never trust the Smithsonian. They're in bed with the CIA, NSA, all that...Sounds like it was made in the 20's or something and it seems to me that those dates just don't add up. I don't know. I'd ask Ronnie but I think he's still sequestered in the Guatemalan villa til the current bout of syphillitic paranoia lapses.
So if I say "HEY Lawrence! Doing anything Pee-culear for your birthday this year?" that means it Does Not have conotations of anal OR golden showers...?
Culear derives from culo, which means "ass" in most Latin American countries. In Spain, where culo means "buttocks", culear means moving one's buttocks, especially now among young people with the reggaetón music lyrics. In Mexico it also means to be afraid, as in "tienes culo" (you're scared).In slang it also means to make life difficult for someone, but it is rarely used in Spain and has little or no sexual reference. In Panama, Nicaragua, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and other Latin American countries, it means to have sex (not necessarily anal intercourse — compare with English slang "getting a piece of ass"). A more polite term for the buttocks is nalga.
