Steve grew up in the 50’s with a family heritage of musical influences that consisted of listening to Benny Goodman and Lawrence Welk. He started taking clarinet lessons at age 8, played in the elementary school and district pit orchestra and hated it. It wasn’t fun at all. Then at age 13 there appeared under the Christmas tree an acoustic guitar. He didn’t take it seriously until the Beatles appeared on TV in 1964. They were players, a band, and had screaming girls after them. What a combination. So lacking in social skills he locked himself in his basement for 3 years and self taught himself on guitar. At age 15 Steve and some school friends formed “The Revolvers”, rehearsed several hundred times and never played in front of anyone. However his brothers friend had a rhythm and soul band that he got to jam with and word got out that Steve had good cord and rhythm skills and at 16 joined “The Embers”. He went on to play with some of Lancaster’s best players for the next 15 years – 10 bands in all – doing a variety of styles that would influence him for what was to come.

Around 1979 Steve was approached by some fellow musicians about possibly forming a band that would do some “New Wave” music. Since it wasn’t disco he jumped at the chance. He knew Doug and Sam from “Baby Jane” and vaguely knew Dave Shaeffer. But it didn’t take long to know this new band, The Sharks, was nothing like any other. This was some special chemistry that sometimes boiled, cooked and cultured. What it produced was a giant magnet that drew in people like ants at a picnic. After a seven year run, Steve later played with “Line Drive” and currently with “The Luv Gods”. He also plays at his church and at the local rescue mission with his Christian ministry combo “Brothers and Believers”.