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steve

Fate is what you are born with. Destiny is what you do with your fate.

About Me


My Interests

Wine, reading, learning, Yankee baseball, and relaxing. I've really transformed myself from a rocker to a yuppie, and I am totally cool with this. I enjoy hitting golf balls, drinking wine, going out to Sushi, and generally trying to make up for the fact that I didn't take life seriously until I was 30. I consider myself a Type A personality, and work really hard to have all the good things now. I am very laid back, I have no ego, but I am no pushover. If I'm not breaking your chops or goofing on you, chances are I really don't like you. mspmb allowScriptAccess="never" enableJSURL="false" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" src="http://lads.myspace.com/slides/photoslider.swf?u=247005 5" .. enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" allownetworking="internal" allowScriptAccess="never" enableJSURL="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="445" height="230"......

I'd like to meet:

No One really.
the cast of millions
steve has a whole lot of Friends
the thief

..the keyboard masseur

..the dean of badness

..fizzgig

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the brother of rock and president of EMI

..first lady of boston

..the king of drums

..satan..'s butterfly

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the champ

..gifted with pen, bass, and molotov. the master

..the saint of paint

..E. Frank Poncherello

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View all of my friends, wackos, creeps, motorheads, and geeks. They all think I am a righteous dude.

Music:

Long and complicated love/hate affair with music. Family was all musicians, an uncle was a bassist, my grandfather played jazz drums back in World War II days, a cousin of mine is a talented singer/songwriter. I played guitar, I think I was fairly accomplished, it started at age 8 with Saxophone then a switch to guitar at 15 to a lot of lessons, practice, and finally I went to school for music at MI in California, and finished off my Associates here in NJ, afterwards, I played more gigs, taught music, did some wedding bands, some jingles and got a day gig to help make some more money. Started working in the music industry at metal labels like Mauseleaum and Flip Records, and invariably EMI Music Marketing for 10 years. Good times there, many friends, met my wife there. Anyway, I played for some good local bands, Fizzgig, Damn Dirty Ape and with my good friend Mike Cristi in Years of Static, got to jam with some great cats from Dream Theater, Danzig, Rob Halford's band. Between working for an asshole at EMI, and playing in bands that weren't going anywhere I just burnt out, miss my old band mates, my old former soldiers from EMI, and old friends from Berklee and GIT. This is why I joined MySpace in the first place.All time favorites: Frank Sinatra, Zeppelin, Kings X, Kiss (duh!), Sarah McLaughlin, Quicksand, Jellyfish, COC, Type O Negative, Chet Baker, Sabbath, Michael Hedges, Jeff Beck, and Hall and Oates (those dudes wrote some killer tunes) I'll throw in some Black Label Society and System of a Down for the metal flavor... Just listen to something with passion and you'll be alright.Yes, I am married, but dammit, I love Kim! .... ........ ....

Movies:

The movie that still makes me smile like a 5 year old.The single greatest Television moment for me as a kid. I loved the Six Million Dollar man versus Sasquatch.

Television:

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My Blog

Time is making changes in my life - time to take it back!

So it seems that the end of one chapter is about to close and another one is to open. I've been blessed to always have people remember me because of my work ethic, my personality, my insanity, o...
Posted by steve on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:00:00 PST

Cat Scratch Fever

You know the song, well I had the fever. Spent last weekend in the hospital with my ass attached to an IV and a nurse taking my pulse and temp every 20 minutes. The kid was down, but not out. See, I ...
Posted by steve on Mon, 21 May 2007 04:21:00 PST

All the things you are, which make me insane...

As I sit back and enjoy a lovely Saturday morning, I thought I would share with you my latest and greatest list of things that inch me closer to a major stroke. Since I wish not to bore...
Posted by steve on Sat, 05 May 2007 07:53:00 PST

Comfort me in a good Burgandy. Happy Holidays!

Yes, I admit it. I've been so good at avoiding it all year since I've left my little gig selling boxed wines to chain supermarkets, but guess what? I  kind of miss the action. Eve...
Posted by steve on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:58:00 PST

4 months since my last blog. What's new in my life?

The last four months of my life have included:  - Purchasing a new house.  - Starting a new job in sales (but no longer on commission)  - Growing a mustache and goatee.  ...
Posted by steve on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:24:00 PST

Real Estate and why we're buying..

I've been looking to buy a home for about a year, it's been frustrating, prices are just out of control here in Northern New Jersey. For the third world charm of Paterson, Passaic, Jersey City, and Ne...
Posted by steve on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:33:00 PST

If you want to me as a friend, please read!

If you want to add me as a friend, cool.. BUT... If you send a friend request, and I don't know you, please send some kind of e-mail telling me who you are. I'm pretty chatty when you c...
Posted by steve on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Fizzgig Middle Finger Photo, and other nonsense.

The picture was from 1996ish. The band was Fizzgig. We were a King's X, Non-Fiction, Sabbath, Anthrax sounding type band. Terry Hogan sang, nice guy, started the band with me and Rob Steele....
Posted by steve on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My Least favorite bands and why!

Feeling ever the sprout musically lately, I've been in a rebirth of enjoying music. However, with the good I feel the need to discuss a few of the melodic equivlent of sonic bowel movement. I will fro...
Posted by steve on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

EMI still makes me nauseaus! A year later!

I wrestle with my hostilities at times. I wrestle with thoughts of why idiots who have zero percent of a clue are in any iota of deciding power. I am a much happier person than where I was a year ago....
Posted by steve on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST