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Steven Deal

About Me


Playing since I was 13 years old, sneaking into clubs, and then getting a notarized note from my parents to play when i got my first record deal with Relativity/Sony at age 18. This was my first group Bleached Black. I was known as Stevo in those days. Dropped out of college to tour the USA and Canada several times as support act for groups such as Dinosaur Jr., Das Damen, The Screaming Trees, The Neighborhoods, etc. Band released "Wrist Slashing Romance" EP, Self-titled Album produced by Lou Giordano (Husker Du, Volcano Suns, GooGoo Dolls, and many other credits...), some 45's. Broke up Acrimoniously in 1988 after only appearing on MTV 2 or 3 times...Started Chopper in 1989, signed with Big Deal/Caroline, toured, played MANY gigs and recorded the "4play" EP, "Chopper" self-titled album, toured throughout the UK, France and Spain doing promo appearances, recorded "Slogans and Jingles" album with Adam "Red" Lasus, and the swan song "Madhouse On Castle Street." with Michael Deming of the Lilys as Engineer. This band too ended acrimoniously in 1996...in 1997 my third band The Absolute Zeros picked up my deal with Big Deal, now owned by Paradigm in NYC. We recorded a million compilation tracks, got trashed in People Magazine, and eventually broke up after our Peter Katis (Interpol, Philistines, Jr., Babyheads, Zambonis...) recorded album "Dreams Gone Sour" stiffed bigger than any other recording in my history. This is in spite of the koo-koo cover art done by Nick's famous Brother Steven Appleby (ex-Altered Images artist responsible for all those Duran Duran sleeves and those cartoons on that damn Pixies disc---oh yeah, and his BBC series, "Captain Star", along with many, many books....) Then I dropped out for awhile, reforming the Zeros with guitar-virtuoso Chris Cretella taking over for Nick and Nick moving to bass. We recorded a few things---a punk cover EP called "NICE!" and album called "Twisted" featuring unreleased tracks and demos. So that was it until I joined the Naomi Star as 2nd Guitarist/Vocalist/Songwriter last year, and quit after playing gigs in Boston, NYC, CT., and NH. WHY??? Because I started writing and recording songs that I loved again with Dan from Naomi Star and the band said, "Naaaa..." we said, SOLO CAREER!!!!! And I say Let's Fucking Drink To That! I'm working on new material with Dan, and have just licensed 6 songs for the soundtrack of a movie co-directed by Lisa Hammer (The Venture Brothers) and James Merendino (SLC Punk), and written by Ben Edlund (The Tick). So There!
DISCOGRAPHY:Bleached Black "Wrist Slashing Romance" EP 1985 (RiJiD)Bleached Black "When I Was In Your Life b/w Chelsea" 45 1986 (RiJiD)Bleached Black LP 1987 (Relativity/Sony)Chopper "4play" EP 1989 (Animal 5)Chopper LP 1991 (Zero Hour)Chopper "White Summer b/w How Does It Feel To Feel" 45 1991 (Susstones)Chopper "How Does It Feel To Feel b/w Caitlin Cries" 45 1991 (Zero Hour)Chopper "Slogans And Jingles" LP 1993(Big Deal/Caroline)Chopper "Supersmile" EP 1993 (Big Deal/Caroline)Chopper "Madhouse On Castle Street" LP 1994 (Big Deal/Caroline)Absolute Zeros "Dreams Gone Sour" LP 1997(Big Deal/Paradigm)Absolute Zeros "NICE!" EP 2004(Buzzbaby)The Naomi Star "Through The Eyes" LP 2009(Naomi Star)Lisa Hammer "Dakini" LP 2009 (Projekt)Steven Deal RADIO TWELVE LP 2009 (Seditionary Kitten)

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Member Since: 30/07/2007
Band Website: seditionarykitten.com
Band Members: Steven Deal, Guitars, Keyboards, Percussion, Drums, Writing, Singing and Producing. Dan Kohler, Bass, Keyboards, Writing, and Engineering. Chris Cretella, Guitars, Vocals and Writing. Dave Parmelee, Drums.
Influences: blur, ace frehley, the beatles, the who,the jam, the kinks, badfinger, kate bush, graham coxon, gorillaz, bjork, phil ochs, the creation, chopper, the absolute zeros, bleached black, kiss, doug fieger,siobhan fahey, david bowie, cheap trick, buddy holly, roky erickson.
Sounds Like: Beatles, Who, Kinks, Weller, Blur, Badfinger, Creation.
Record Label: SEDITIONARY KITTEN
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Chopper

Came across this disturbingly hilarious interview with a 'zine called "Noise For Heroes" that I did when I was completely out of control...makes for some silly reading. File in the "Young And Stupid" ...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:20:00 GMT

Bad Reviews!

The reviews are in --- the music experts expound on Chopper... And the clear winner in the bad review stakes is... ..> CHOPPERSlogans & Jingles(BIG DEAL)I've had it. First, the title. Ki...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:21:00 GMT