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About Me

My name is Steve Cook, this Myspace is a kind of online scrapbook, featuring (nearly) everything I've ever done with a guitar around my neck, it doesn't feature any one particular band instead it will have a bit of everything as far back as 1973 up to the present day, so hold on tight it'll be a bumpy ride - here we go. I was born in 1963, had an intrest in music and records at an early age, got my first guitar in 1973 and formed a band with my school friends called Eclipse, not much happned after that untill 1979, I started to take it more seriously, I played in many bands untill the band I had the most success with The Motel Kings, we were together for ten years played the length and breth of the country and made three cds opened for many of the big blues acts, and played many big blues festivels, later I began to feel restricted in the band and not happy with the music scene I was in, A turning point foe me came in 1997 when I was In Austin Texas, my friend Dan Frezak (Bobby Mac Band) took me to a blues jam, expecting to play with the host of the evening on vocals and harp I was shocked when he left me standing there on my own saying "you'll be ok" after the initial panic I had an idea, I knew I could sing Te-Ne-Nee Ne-Nu in the key of 'C' because I sometimes had to do it at sound checks for the Motel Kings, off I went and Bang! the whole club was up and dancing! that night I knew I had to quit the band and concentrate on my own thing, I decided to take some time off the music scene (the wilderness years) and concentrate on song writing and to one day front my own band, as of 2005 I've been doing just that in my band called the HOOK, we preform many of my songs, I will use this site to preview my songs when I record them, for now I've posted some old stuff, a song writen by me and my good friend Louise Ryan in 1992 called You're Supposed To Be Mine, Shiny Purple Crome a guitar instrumental from my old Tascam Porta One, Honey Gun recorded at a rehearsal by none other than the band Honey Gun! and Living In Sin writen and recorded by my self and my good friend (and Impossibles vocalist) David Stone in the mid eighties, and last but not least a rare Motel Kings recording called Motel Boogie (intended for the second MK's album Hot To The Touch) - enjoy! but stay tuned.. the future is bright. S.C. Free MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider

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Member Since: 2/26/2007
Band Website: the-hook.co.uk
Band Members: My current band is the HOOK, previous bands include - Eclipse (1973), Colin Dean's Southern Cross, Michigan Avenue, Shake & Finger Pop, The Hoods, Fast Eddie, Pandora's Box, Giant, Billy Dean Band, Big Joe Louis & His Blues Kings, Key Frances Band (bass Guitar), The Impossibles, Okey Dokey Stompers, The Motel Kings, Honey Gun
Influences: John Lee Hooker, Guitar Slim, Magic Sam, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Albert King, BB King, Freddie King, Bill Haley & his Comets, Wanda Jackson, Connie Francis, Brenda Lee, Neil Sedaka, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Cream, Free, Traffic, The Deep Purple, Gladys Knight, Billie Jo Spears, Ziggy Stardust, The Sweet, The Osmonds, Nazareth, Darts, Dr. Feelgood, Robert Gordon+Link Wray, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Ramones, Sex Pistols, MotÃ¶rhead, AC/DC, Lou Ann Barton+SRV, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Rosie Floris, Stray Cats, The Blasters, the iNMaTES, Dave Edmunds/Nick Lowe, Roomful of Blues, Key Frances.
Sounds Like: Motel Kings - Motel Boogie Motel Kings - Red Shoes Tools Of My Trade
Record Label: 7" vinyl
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Famous Ace Café London

Once again it's an honor to play the Ace Café this Sat. 5th of July, for those of you who don't know the Ace here's what Wikipedia has to say about it.The Ace Cafe is an old transport café in London, ...
Posted by Steve Cook on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:45:00 PST

Honey Gun by... Honey Gun

I've posted a version of Honey Gun by... Honey Gun!, it's just a loose run through at a rehearsal some time in 2002, the song was written first, then when the band needed a name it seemed to be the ob...
Posted by Steve Cook on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:36:00 PST

Eddie "Good Time" Bailey passed away on wednesday

With sadness I report that my good friend Eddie "Good Time" Bailey passed away on wednesday 27th due to a complication brought on through a lung infection, Eddie was a true character loved by all, I t...
Posted by Steve Cook on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:24:00 PST

Motel Boogie, Red Shoes & Danny Baker

Two songs of mine (YouTube, on the left) written when I was in the Motel Kings, Red Shoes it's self was very popular live and also with DJ Danny Baker, he played it a lot on his radio show at the time...
Posted by Steve Cook on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:56:00 PST

Devon Allmans Honeytribe

Everybody Check out Devon Allman's Honeytribe (son of Greg Allman) my band have the privilege of opening for them on the 7th Dec. in Whetstone Bull & Butcher a gig not to miss, his cd "Torch" on Live...
Posted by Steve Cook on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:35:00 PST

Shiny Purple Crome

Shiny Purple Crome - The Big Steps, was recorded by me in about 1987 on my Tascam Porta One studio with a Roland TR 505 drum machine and my Squire Precision bass (which I no longer have), lots of over...
Posted by Steve Cook on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:24:00 PST

Living In Sin & Love Is A Lie

Living In Sin & Love Is A Lie were recorded in the late 80's by me and David Stone before we formed the Impossibles, they were recorded round Davids house on my 4-track Tascam studio, we had great fun...
Posted by Steve Cook on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:37:00 PST

Tony Dangerfield

I will be attending a tribute night to my friemd Tony Dangerfield if the stars and the moon are right my band the HOOK play and we will play for Tony. please come and pay your respects to a rock & rol...
Posted by Steve Cook on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:08:00 PST

the HOOK at the Hut this Sat 2nd June

Get down to the Hut and catch the HOOK this saturday 2nd June, on stage any time after 11:30 follow this link http://homepage.mac.com/stevecookr83/My%20Website/page6/page 6.html
Posted by Steve Cook on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:34:00 PST

Watch out for spammers

I'll keep this short, watch out for people who want to be you friend who you might think "why do 'they' want to be my friend?" there should be al least some common intrest there a favourite band or fe...
Posted by Steve Cook on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:23:00 PST