I started playing at age 5, at 13 was enrolled at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, (N.O.C.C.A.) where I studied Classical and Jazz guitar. At 16 I dicided High School sucked and dropped out, got my GED and went to UNO and not Nebraska.University of New Orleans, studying classical guitar and music theory At 17 I met a girl that was quite a bit older then me, and moved to California,Hollywood to be exact. I started dropping off demo tapes to every record company in townand within 2 weeks found myself playing for the band Lizzy Borden It was an underground metal band, but a record deal non the less Things soon went awry with that and one day somone called me up, and said they knew Kevin Dubrow of Quiet Riot's phone number. Me being a huge Randy Rhoads fan, and knowing Quiet Riot was at that time broken up, wanted the number I called Kevin out of the blue; and just said. "Hey man would you just listen to my demo?" Kevin to my suprise, was cool as hell about it, and said yes mail it to me Well 3 days later I get a call from him saying, "Hey man I love this one song." I was like dude, I wrote that at like 15.Still he wanted to re-write it with meThe out come was Live Til it HurtsA play off of the Jerry Lewis telethone.He always said Give til it hurts.LOL. Kevin and I spent about a year writting and recording together till low and behold, it made it to the Down To the Bone CD. But the year it came out Grunge hit the scene!!!!!!!It was almost like every rock critic spent an entire decade waiting for heavy metal to crash like a lead zepplin, and - seemingly seconds after Kurt Cobain wore a dress on MTV's headbangers ball-they got thier shovels and began pouring dirt on the graves of Faster PussyCat,Winger, Skid Row, and every other band that experamented with spandex, hairsray, and flashpots. Metal always had been a little stupid; now it wasn't even cool.
This was the end
I became a cultural exile; I wandered the 1990's in search of pyrotechnic riffs and luke warm Budwieser. It didn't matter how much I pretended to like the alternative or sub pop culture-I was an indisputable fossil from a musical bronze age and every body knew it. My street cred was always in question. Like a mutant species of metal morlocks, my fellow head bangers and I went into hidding, praying that the cute little alterna chick at the local coffee house would not suss out our love for Krokus.
but that era of darkness is going to endWERE BACK.
.My most memrable thing was sitting there with Kevin and him telling me, "Steve your the most creative guitarist I have ever met besides Randy Rhoadsman what a compliment LOL After that I spent the next few years as a studio musician for Post Logic Studios in Hollywood doing jingles.Till I finaly got fed up with the scen and moved to Redondo Bch, Ca. Where there I met and Became best friends with Don Dokken .My other credits include Bobby Womack, and Guy Mann-Dude. I now live in Boise Idaho, and don't ask why.thats a whole long story my friendsBut of course Im originaly from New Orleans La,. That was a great town to grow up in. I grew up with bands like, Lillian Axe, (Steve Blaze is an awsome guitarist), and Zebra, hell Phil Anselmo from Pantera and I grew up together.theres been alot of talent to come out of that small town we grew up in a place called Metairie La, But any way that about sums me up hope you enjoy the song, your some of the few that ever got to hear itAnd the lastsince the passing of my good freind Kevin Dubrow this is all history now.I will miss him . cheers folks.Steven
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