Hi there, I'm Steve Ibach, I was born in Chicago a long time ago. I lived in Madison, Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Silverton, Colorado for a while. Eventually, I moved to the West Coast where I've lived in a few different places including Eugene, Oregon, where I seem to have stayed. While in Eugene, I've played with a number of well known musicians including the very famous Teddy Boy Roix (The Soulsations), JC Rico (Zulu Dragon), Eddie Clark (The William Clark Blues Band), Allen Ginsburg (the beat poet), Big Monty Amundson ( The Blubino's, Big Monty) Rick Markstrom ( he played in a lot of famous bands with me and used to work at The Emporium department store where he had his own office)
Henry Vestine (Canned Heat), BJ Wilson (Procol Harum), Norma Frazer (Bob Marley & the Wailers) and of course Mick Taylor (The Rolling Stones).
I'll admit, I only played with Mick Taylor for one night. His girlfriend came up to me at a solo gig I was doing and asked me if her boyfriend could sit in and I said no because I didn't recognize him. Another one night high point was having the Neville Brothers band show up at a gig I was doing and ask if they could sit in and jam. That was an easy question to answer, and then they tipped me a hundred bucks. Well that's enough about what I used to do. Eventually I tired of living in the limelight so now I mostly just stay home and watch TV a lot and play video games with my son, Julian. I also spend a lot of time recording in my home studio. All of the music that's up here on my Myspace profile was recorded there, I mean here, since that's where I am right now. I play all of the instruments on these recordings myself because nobody else ever plays exactly what I want to hear.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune, wrote," Steve Ibach is painfully reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix." Blues Review says,"Steve Ibach get's great Strat tone to match his playing." The Village Voice wrote," Far out," ( they might have been referring to me, I'm not sure ) and The Eugene Register-Guard says,"Steve Ibach is Eugene's mad genius of the guitar." UPDATE: The Register-Guard just called me "Eugene's guitar guru" a couple of months ago.
I'm also a visual artist whose work has been banned here on Myspace, (no nipples allowed) but you can view it at www.tribe.net.
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