If you’re a musician living in Nashville (East Nashville especially), then you’ve probably encountered or even befriended former Tin Machine and David Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels, who moved to Music City in 2006.
Perhaps overshadowed by his 12-year Bowie tenure, many fans and friends often forget that, in the late ’90s, Gabrels had a brief musical tryst collaborating with The Cure. The guitarist appeared on the bouncy 1997 single “Wrong Number,” in addition to joining with Cure auteur Robert Smith and drummer Jason Cooper to form the short-lived side-project COGASM. The COGASM song “A Sign From God” appeared on the OST for Orgazmo — the 1997 Trey Parker flick about a Mormon missionary who breaks bad and leaves his magic underwear behind to appear as a superhero in stag films. (It has a sweet Depeche Mode reference.) Smith returned the favor when he appeared on Gabrel’s 1999 solo effort Ulysses (Della Notte).
