Steve Pile Band

Steve Pile has rambled from California, then Oregon, with spats of Alaska, Austin, Tx, and now, full circle back to California. I play guitar and write songs. I write songs on my guitar with lyrics and everything, and I also play guitar with other people, but only people I like, and then, only if I like their music. I'm lucky that lots of people I like play good music. I just finished my second album, songs from which should be playing right now. I'm really happy with it. It has ridiculously amazing musicians on it that were really inspired and creative in the studio, and you can decide what you think of the songs.I am a junky for music thick and real and rocking and subtle. My life changed when I started checking out old 30's blues guitar cds from the Eugene Public Library a few years back. Ragtime pickin' is coming back. Just watch. Joseph Spence blows me away. I also flip out on Paul Simons first solo record, with the hood, and the dog, and all Beatles, Willis Alan Ramsey. White Lion. Faith No More. The list never ends.I also play kora, though its been a few years since I've had it in playing order. I spent 3 weeks in the Gambia learning to play it. Its like a big phallic harp on which one can get incredibly funky. West African music is some of the best in the world. Baaba Maal, Kaouding Cissokho, Amadou and Miriam, just to name a few.I played around Austin quite a bit, both with my band, an everchanging cast at the moment, but always rockin', and solo or with my fellow musician friend Sara Shansky, who writes and sings really well. It was amazing to be surrounded and in company of such Badasses there. I felt it time to rock California though and have returned energized from my musical journies. you ready CA? You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !