After receiving a Classical guitar as a Christmas Gift at age thirteen, things changed forever for Randy Pevler. “As soon as I started playing, I knew this is what I would be doing the rest of my life”.
Randy decided to give up the lessons his grandmother had purchased for him because as he says, "They cut too much into my playing time - I preferred to stay in my room and emerge myself in listening and learning by copying licks from my favorite Zeppelin, Beck and Hendrix records. Growing up as a young teen in Phoenix with summer temperatures over 110 Degrees, learning guitar was a lot more fun than being outside!”
Randy's first professional band was Killerwatt. They played every cover tune from Aerosmith to Led Zeppelin, and every guitar driven band in between. With original music screaming to get out, Randy moved to L.A. and formed The Rabble, a fusion of new wave punk jammed with heavy blues. Rabble also included another future big name in its line-up - Chuck Wright of Quiet Riot and House Of Lords.
But Randy was continually drawn toward all that is heavy, and left to form an L.A. legend, Divine Rite, a band that played pure hard and pure heavy melodic rock. Hard work and great music built a big fan base for this band and 'Kerrang' magazine called Divine Rite the “Epitome of American Metal”.
Suddenly, grunge came along and changed the music scene irreversibly, so Divine Rite had nowhere to go! Out of that band, sprang Nomad Railway - a short-lived but extremely well received band featuring T. Gunn of Big Franklin and Laidlaw. Nomad’s good reviews gave Randy the confidence to do what he knew he had to do - He felt that the time had finally come to pursue his own musical direction as an instrumentalist.
With this new direction came, ‘Back When I Was Sane’. "I just felt that it was time to go back to my roots and play guitar music, the music that I love most. I wanted to do something different, something that would reach a higher level than I’d reached before. This was the first time that I was playing and writing just for myself, and not for other personalities. It's a much more honest approach and a damn sight more Fun!" Randy plays all the instruments on ‘Back When I Was Sane’, except drums which features Donny Sarian. The album was well received with positive reviews in such international magazines as ‘Guitar World’ and ‘Guitar For The Practicing Musician’ (Japanese version). It was one of the only non-major label albums to be played by radio stations regularly in Los Angeles. While out promoting the album with live shows, Randy was approached to do a three guitar instrumental disc. "This idea seemed like a good way to combine melodies and harmonies in an orchestrated way. I jumped at the chance to work in a format were every part complimented the others”. Thus the Glasshammer project was then formed and that album appealed to everyone into rock music, not just guitarist’s.
Randy’s second solo disc: ‘Inside Looking Out’ was a real challenge. "I wanted this to be different to anything I had done before, but, make sure it had my style stamped on it. It had to have more shades from dark and muted to serene pastels, so I expanded my instrumentation to get as many different sounds as possible, and feature more acoustic songs than on both Glasshammer and my first album”. With a bigger budget to hand, Randy was able to reach higher goals on this disc. The song ‘Clouds’ was used on the Sci-Fi channel’s ‘Good vs. Evil’, and with MTV using cuts on teen show, ‘Undressed’, more people were exposed to the music of Randy Pevler.
All this background experience explodes into full frontal assault of the last Pevler album: ‘Chrome’. "Every time I finish a disc I feel confident. However, with this release, I feel I’ve broken through to something very special."