Unleash Your Inner Rebel with Rebel Slave Music
REBELS OF CONTROL / SLAVES OF CURANCY / MEANS WE STILL WORK FOR A LIVING!
RebelSlave - Music IS OUR FREEDOM
Our Mission
At RebelSlave Music, our mission is to bring joy and inspiration to people in our community and all around the world through the power of music. We believe that music has the ability to transcend language, culture, and geography, and we are committed to creating OUR OWN STYLE OF music that reflects our belief system. We are all REBELS of control, yet we are all SLAVES of currency - meaning we all work for a living! MUSIC IS OUR THERAPY from the day to day grind !
AND MUSIC!
MUSIC IS OUR FREEDOM!
ABOUT THE FOUNDING OF REBELSLAVE MUSIC
OUR BACK STORY
Founded in 2004 by Jeremiah Cole Epler in the vicinity of Olivet / Bellevue Michigan. Rebel Slave Music originally consisted of 3 individuals (Jeremiah Cole Epler ~ Lead vocals and Rhythm Guitar, Mike Delany ~ Drums, Ron Collier ~ Alternate Rhythm Guitar) 3 individuals interested in playing music together and was considering Naming / Branding their basement band before any attempted attendance in any further future public events.
The original band broke up before adopting the name RebelSlave!
Jeremiah Cole Epler adopted and assumed sole propriety of the name RebelSlave and entity for any future band music potential!
The Band once again restarted intermittently with Jeremiah Cole Epler on lead vocals and rhythm guitar and his sister Angie Sinclair learning bass guitar!
In 2015 our band gained a 3rd member Gene Dockstader aka (GRIZ) learning on drums.
In 2016 our band once again became a duo with Jeremiah & Angie!
In 2019 our band once again found a short-term drummer, Jeremiah's stepdaughter Jah'llel
Stevensen.
In 2020 our band seemed to be coming together with the addition of Dustin Boggess (Jeremiah's Brother in-law) on lead guitar.
Soon after we welcomed Michael Sinclair (Cousin to Jeremiah & Angie) as full-time drummer!
The band was finally starting to show its potential was so lucky to make its public debut coming up June 12th 2021, opening for a special needs benefit JDL's Angels For Autism in Marshall Michigan. On the ticket two other local bands ~ Handsome Pete ~ SSX and the nationally known act ~ Saving Able!
The band was overcome with the tragic news and eventually the loss of family member and the lead guitar player Dustin Boggess (AKA DBO), due to a home explosion that Dustin often stayed over with at friends on April 12th, 2021. Dustin and 7 other individuals made it out of the tragic accident with their lives barely - Some landed in intensive care and others in critical care!
Dustin suffered more burns after heroically re-entering the structure to rescue a 2-year-old little girl!
Both made it out alive - however their injuries landed them both in critical care!
Unfortunately, the decision to pull the life support plug was made against our wishes by his 2-year estranged spouse on 5/6/2021 with staff insisting he would pass within minutes of discontinuing life support - Our Dustin Passed 22 hours later on 5/7/2021 It is our belief he was fighting for his life!
With grief so heavy upon us, we were given the chance to pass on our performance due to our sudden loss of our family and band member! We all agreed to perform in the memory of our bandmate who in all honesty was the one who lined up the gig in the first place!
June 12th, 2021
RebelSlave opened the benefit with the band's introduction as a memorial for Dustin, as we played a recording of Dustin's planned entrance to the stage playing the Star-Spangled Banner lead electric guitar RebelSlave style!
Dustin played in spirit for everyone that day through the sound recording we had captured only months prior!
As to the remainder of the benefit - RebelSlave was able to help generate a healthy portion of the donations taken in during that benefit event!
One of the individuals that actually owned the house that had the tragic accident, one of Dustin's good friends, who also suffered some burns and the loss of his home from the accident, also actually became a member of RebelSlave for as short time. Joshua Spear joined our band officially in July of 2021 as another lead vocalist and rhythm guitar player. Joshua would eventually break off from the group for unknown reasons following the holiday and new year season of 2022.
Our Greatest Influence
Michaels dad, Angie and Jeremiah's uncle Alan Sinclair was able to sit in on a few practice sessions and became an honorary member of RebelSlave adding his years of experience to help influence and improve some of our music.
Our family influenced us at an early age as we watched our uncles, and aunts, dads, and moms, as youngsters play and sing at family events. It all started with our grandfather Don Sinclair teaching his children ~ Our parents! Glen, Duane, Alan, Nancy, Elaine. In turn our parents, uncles and aunts taught us and became our biggest influence in music.
Michael, Angie & Jeremiah continue on in music therapy sessions practicing for the band RebelSlave's next public performance!
