Travis Stever
Travis Stever (born November 25, 1978) is an American musician who is best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria. 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. In 2021, Stever joined with members of Skarhead and Full Scale Riot to form the alternative rock and metal band Zero Trust, where Stever plays  bass guitar. The band formed as an outlet during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020–21 United States racial unrest, debuting with a two song, self-titled EP. Instruments. Besides guitar, Stever plays other stringed instruments such as the bass guitar, 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". Personal life. Following his parents' divorce, Stever grew up in both Park Ridge, New Jersey, and Nyack, New York. He attended Park Ridge High School and played on the football team.