A year ago around this time, the infamous “Girls Gone Wild” began a hard rock music tour in support of their business. With the success of last year’s uncultivated shows filled with hammering hard rock music and sizzling wet T-shirt contests, the tour is back, but with a much better bill this time around.
The “Girls Gone Wild” tour, to perform at the Theatre of Living Arts on Feb. 21, features the bands Hinder, Faktion, and a new and upcoming band entitled Revelation Theory.
Hailing from New York City, Revelation Theory has been through it all. While writing a record and attempting to gain radio exposure, the group slept many nights on different friends’ sofas and toured relentlessly across the country. With the new success coming fast, Revelation Theory’s front man, Rich Luzzi, said the band has embraced it with open arms.
“Our high point in our careers has been recent,” said Luzzi. “The single (“Slowburn”) is doing well on the radio, and we’re starting to tour with really big bands, and getting to play in front of a thousand people has been awesome.”
The three-year-old band has a wide range of musical influences, all of which played a significant role in the bands’ recent album Truth is Currency, Luzzi said.
“We have a ton of musical influences from the Police and the Beatles, to Metallica, Tool, Guns and Roses. It’s a wide array of music,” said Luzzi. “Julian, our guitarist, basically comes up with most of the lyrics, then as a band we collectively put together the music and stuff like that, and we add our own twists to it.”
As the second “Girls Gone Wild” tour, lots of people wonder what to expect. The videos have made an enormous cultural impact in the United States, and almost everyone has seen those notorious infomercials with girls exposing themselves in front of the camera.
Last years’ tour was basically run by “Girls Gone Wild” and the bands were not the main attraction. Revelation Theory was on last year’s tour and knows how it feels to not be the center of attention.
But according to Luzzi, this year’s tour is going to be an exception. “This tour is a little bit different than last year’s and its because last year we had two unsigned bands on the tour, and basically “Girls Gone Wild” carried the tour,” Luzzi said. “This year it’s three signed bands, all doing well on radio, and basically “Girls Gone Wild” is just sponsoring the tour.”
“It’s just a kick ass rock show from start to finish,” he continued. “You will be entertained from the minute we start to the minute we end.”
The past three years have been a rollercoaster ride for Revelation Theory. They have struggled like almost every other band, but for Luzzi and the guys their dreams of success are very modest- riches is not their end goal. They just want to keep making music.
“We’d like to see ourselves as successful as we can be, living life playing music, touring, and just getting our music out there to as many people as we can,” he said. “We are not asking to be rich by any means, but if we can make a decent living playing music, and there are people out there wanting to hear us and see us, than we are happy with that.”
Dan Cappello can be reached at dancaps@temple.edu.
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