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face (f s) n.
1.The front portion of the head, from forehead to chin.
Nick Lampone –
Born in the tiny Sicilian village of Cefalù in the year of our Lord 1915, Nick’s parents knew right away that their eighth son had been destined to greatness. In 1930 the young Lampone gathered with hundreds of other boys from the town on the beach to be presented to the regional Italian naval commodore. The commodore immediately selected Nick to become his first mate, taking him on a whirlwind tour of Northern Africa, gathering intelligence and committing acts of espionage in preparation for Mussolini’s upcoming invasion of Libya. This was the moment Nick’s anxious parents had been waiting for, and the next summer they were murdered by Gypsies. In this period of mourning, the navy released Lampone and he developed his singing by chanting traditional Sicilian hymns to protect the spirits of his slain ancestors. After being frozen in the ice caps of the Italian Tyrol in a freak scrabble accident, a team of mountain climbers uncovered and thawed the future guitarist. Between shows, Lampone currently lives under the protection of the Israeli secret service at an undisclosed location.
Matt Bernstein –
Historical accounts as to the exact year of Matt Bernstein’s birth vary. One moonless night he was born to a schizophrenic Lebanese taxi driver who claimed the father to have been the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. As a youth in 1993 Matt found himself in the Congolese refugee camp where he would found the Revelators with the four other original members. Ali, Jean-Louis, Hector, Samed and Matt went on to make the Revelators one of the greatest bands in African history until the other four members split with Matt over artistic differences. Matt went on to carry on the Revelators name and the other four disappeared into the Jungle sometime in 1995. When asked today about the other four original members, Matt coyly replies that “that part of [him] died in the jungle a long time ago.”
Jay Dockendorf –
Although history will surely remember Jay as Uruguay’s greatest president since José Gervasio Artigas, few people actually know the entire story of his life. Raised up on a wheat farm in rural Oklahoma, Jay was a small town boy with big city rock and roll/president of Uruguay dreams. Cursed with crippling polio from a young age, Jay taught himself to walk again by playing keyboards. After running away with a traveling circus he entered Uruguayan soil for the first time. During the hectic coup attempt following his first performance on the trapeez, he used his Keyboards to halt a battalion of rebel tanks. After assuming the presidency following the bloodshed, Jay established Uruguay’s first national fencing team, which won gold at the 1972 Olympics after traveling backwards in time in the first ever Uruguayan national time machine. A cadre of military officers later forced Jay into exile, and the Revelators have been banned from playing in Montevideo and Punta del Este.
Miles Marsico –
One half of a pair of conjoined twins, Miles Marsico’s life has been anything but easy. Following surgery at a young age to separate his face from that of his brother, Miles has been forced to take a cocktail of pills every day in order to keep bacteria from rotting his eyebrows off. Upon joining the Peace Corps, Miles’ battle with the microscopic fiends became even more difficult. Joining the Peace Corps would change Marsico’s life for the better, however. On assignment bringing the word of our Lord Jesus and vaccinations to the people of Rapa-Nui, Miles’ had a vision of that Island’s principal deity. The apparition informed Miles’ that the true path to salvation laid in the Island’s traditional drumming. After ritually sacrificing the other missionaries to the Island’s gods, Miles adopted the customs of his hosts. He completed the development of his masterful drumming by banging the stretched out skins of iguanas at the initiation of the new chief. He currently lives in Palos Verdes with his German shepherd, Suzanne.
Charley Damski -
Having early in life forsaken his family’s age old tradition of electric bass in favor of his BMW F60, Charley Damski set out from his home town in order to be the first man to motorcycle non-stop from Maine to Istanbul, via the Bearing Straits. The journey of his life time started out smoothly and Damski was even mistakenly awarded the order of Lenin upon arriving in Eastern Russia from across the ice bridge to Alaska. When he awoke one morning roughly 300 miles west of the city of Dalandzadgad however, he knew that his career as a world class trans-continental motorcyclist was over for good. During a respite in the provincial Mongolian town, bandits had robbed him at knife-point and then left him for dead on the steppes. After days of wandering with neither shelter nor sustenance, Charley collapsed in a shady glen, unknowingly having arrived at the exact spot of the secret tomb of Genghis Kahn. A vision of the mighty leader of hordes appeared to the wayward traveler, commanding Charley to resume his ancestors’ tradition of electric bass. On that day in the Mongolian hinterlands, Charley swore blood oath to never fail in the age old tradition of his forbearers.

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Music:

Member Since: 30/11/2004
Band Website: www.therevelatorsband.com
Band Members: Nick Lampone: vocals, guitar
Matt Bernstein: guitar, vocals
Jay Dockendorf: keyboards
Jake Faulkner: bass
Miles Marsico: drums

Influences: Al Green, The Clash, ELO, New Order, The New York Dolls, NWA, Pixies, Preacher, Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, The Stooges, Talking Heads, Television, Simon Dawes, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Wilco
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We hope everyone in the universe will be able to make it to our re-last show.
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My Blog

Benefit Concert

We, the Revelators, will be reforming for a benefit concert. Our dear comrade, Chris Dubos, having gained his manhood in the state of California, decided to return to the Lone Star State. While he was...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:17:00 GMT

LAST SHOW

As we start the new year, we also start new beginnings. The Revelators have decided to split up, and January 7th at the Roxy will be our last show, and hopefully our most triumphant. We really hop...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:52:00 GMT

EP complete and ready for retail!

Just when you'd given up all hope...out of the ash and rubble it rises anew. The Revelators debut EP, "Shot Out In Japan" is now available for human consumption. Ten years and seven Filipino childre...
Posted by on Sun, 08 May 2005 21:53:00 GMT

Have you purchased your Revelators t-shirt yet?

Many thanks and the gods' blessings on all who drug themselves out of the muck of their average lives to witness the spectacle at the Troubadour last night. The night was a major success thanks to yo...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:07:00 GMT