Steve2000
Guitarist, songwriter, singer in probably that order. On my own I lean toward blues rock licks and tones. In the studio: play for the song, always.
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A Song For A Friend A Song For A Friend
A mid tempo, pop rock electric guitar instrumental! All instruments played etc etc etc by Steve2000.
Tell Her Today Tell Her Today
Country rocker. Steve2000: lead and background vocals, all guitars, primary songwriter, co-producer. Released as band 'EP'. Co-writing polish by Steve Jubb, Gotcha's fearless leader. Produced by Tom 'TA' Anderson & Gotcha at Record Plant, Sausalito.
Lucky 2-Night Lucky 2-Night
Songwriters demo. Recorded in 1996 at the kitchen table using a Fostex 160 4 track analog portastudio. Steve2000: all guitars, bass, Alesis DR programming, lead vocal, producer/engineer.
I'm Lyin' I'm Lyin'
Guitar based pop rock released by the band in a time when synth pop ruled the charts. You are who you are, you play what you play.
Welcome to my "band" page. I want to share some music I've recorded over the years. I was a member of one of the San Francisco Bay Area's top dance/show bands for 15 years. Today, the best cover bands are usually lucky if they can book a weekend in the same club and outside of the few true 'show' bands left playing a much smaller circuit, today's cover bands - at least in this area - can't make a living as fulltime musicians.Band/artist history
Long story, to be completed when I have some time. Briefly (again) a popular San Jose-based dance show band during the late 1970s through the 1980s. We used the money we made playing clubs to record original material. Our self released album received a Billboard "Recommended Hot Pick" the same week The Who's "Who Are You" was the pick of the week. Through clever self management we avoided getting signed to a major label recording deal:) We had offers, but kept waiting for the right one, or at least better ones- which eventually never came. Close Though.Have you performed in front of an audience?I love to play live and do so whenever I can. As an ex-fulltime professional musician it's essential to balance in my life.
Your musical influences
Early Clapton, Mike Bloomfield and Jeff Beck. Also love country guitar ala Albert Lee, Brent Mason and Vince Gill and the telemasters Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan. Can't pick it like them, but love it. Love Joe Pass and Pat Metheny and many other jazz players. Someday I'll sit down and learn some real music. Huge fan of early Larry Carlton and anything Robben Ford did or does. Jeff Beck is maybe my favorite guitarist, but I play nothing like him. No one does.What equipment do you use?
I'm a blues rock guitarist who's after big tone but I'm not a tube amp snob. When i got into true home recording in the early 90s, I began searching for ways to get big tone without big volume. Years before Line 6 PODs/modeling came out, I used speaker emulators and recording preamps to get fat overdriven tones at living room levels. Probably wasted some money jumping into modeling before it was quite there. Got my first serious modeling preamp from Roland in 1996. My first modeling combo amp, Line 6 AX2 was purchased in 1998 but it took till 2001 for it to become a main gigging amp -along with a Marshall 6100/TSL. Current most fun modeling amp is the Vox Valvetronix which will be gigging as soon as I get the large pedalboard.
Update: a couple years after i wrote the original band page here, I jumped on the raging boutique amp bandwagon and picked up a Fuchs TripleDrive Supreme..chasing a version of the Dumble tone. The TDS is an excellent American-voiced tube amp, very very versatile with 3 channels that go from (fendery) clean to scream. It's great and really sings...but (imo) not really D-tone, except that the Dumble tone is based on a sweetly supertweaked Fender circuit, with Dumble's approach to gain: 'input-output-master'.. allowing you to dial things in. The Fuchs ODS/TDS amps are based on (or at least sound like) nicely tweaked Fender-ish circuits and share this D-approach to gain control...The TDS has a dedicated clean channel, which wins it big points for versatility onstage. Acoustic guitars were always Ovations (sigh) my one regret, tho the Ovation 12-string sounded pretty good and our wonderful pro engineers managed to get ok tones out of the O-6. In the late '70s a company called Sunrise came out an acoustic soundhole pickup that sounded great blended with mic-ing. It might have been a Bill Lawrence design. I still have oneAnything else?
Hope you enjoy the songs as they appear here. Realize that some were written and recorded when the Eagles and Steely Dan were popular. As time has gone by and the trends have changed, I still like rock and roll with a lot of guitar. I find a lot of great picking on today's 'country' recordings. Every year country gets closer to classic rock and roll and southern rock. If I were to pursue a fulltime career in music today I'd probably naturally gravitate toward a country situation.Contact
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Great work...Real nice work... keep it up... If you get a chance, I just added an entire CD with 13 songs for Free Download.
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