Steven
@AADrummer6329
Jackson, SC USA
Joined Apr 4, 2016
I started playing drums at a very early age, I remember taking apart those old style clothes hangers that had the cardboard tubes and play on the round oat meal boxes. My parents signed me up for private lessons with the areas well known instructors, Joe Pulice, he was in the big band swing style, my dad came to every lesson and Joe would tell my dad that I was a natural. After a couple years I was in the Kiltie Cadets, a local drum and bugle corps., my brother played French horn and followed after him. I went into the Kilties after 4 years in the cadets. I played tenor and snare drum, and learned a lot that was not instructed, meter and playing as one unit.
I started play set around 10, had the old blue sparkle Polaris set, nothing fancy, it was pretty cool. In high school I got a Slingerland chrome set, giving away me age, but played in jazz band and started playing with others and garage bands, I thought that was really cool, I knew then that this is for me. My biggest influences were Bill Bruford, Steve Gadd ( who I studied under at Berkley ) and others. I played in local bands and got my first real break and auditioned for a band in Zion Illinois, I worked with some of the Chicago areas best musicians, Herb Eimerman, Jeff and John Murphy from the Shoes. We would do several projects over the years and that is where I really knew that I was in this forever.
I played with several bands, all original and would take the knowledge that I attained to every project, worked every genre possible over the years, even pit bands. After a while I started to get the idea of forming my own project, I met Jason Crowden, and After Alice was off the ground running. He is one of the best vocalists I have ever worked with. His guitar style and song writing is just a natural fit for my style of playing, if I had not met Jason, I was thinking of hanging it up. Everything I learned along my music career is coming into a great project, After Alice is very special to me and I see big things in the horizon.
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