Travis Stever


Travis Stever is the lead guitarist for Coheed and Cambria, a progressive rock band from Nyack, New York.

Coheed and Cambria

Travis Stever is a founding member of Coheed and Cambria. The band is named after the title characters in lead singer-guitarist Claudio Sanchez's story, which is central to most of the band's albums. Stever acts as a lead and rhythm guitarist in the band. He wrote the lyrics for the song "Ten Speed". He and Sanchez share leads and solos in the band's music, and often switch back and forth in the "dueling guitar" style made popular in the 1970s.

Side projects

Stever is the lead guitarist and vocalist of a side project called Fire Deuce, a 1980s-style metal band who released "Children of the Deuce" in 2005. Stever has also embarked on a second non-Coheed project named Davenport Cabinet, which released Nostalgia In Stereo in 2008, Our Machine in 2013 and Damned Renegades in 2014.

Instruments

Besides guitar, Stever plays other stringed instruments such as the lap steel, banjo, mandolin, and dobro. He is credited with these instruments on various tracks of Coheed albums, and experiments with many of them on the Davenport Cabinet albums.
He uses a guitar talk box, as seen in Neverender Box Set.
He contributed to The Prize Fighter Inferno's My Brother's Blood Machine by playing lap steel on "Wayne Andrews, The Old Beekeeper".

Equipment

Guitars

Following his parents' divorce, Stever grew up in both Park Ridge, New Jersey, and Nyack, New York.