Hey peeps and peepettes,
So let's start off with the boring stuff. My name is Steve Mitchell and i grew up in Brampton Ontario for most of my life and my one big dream is to get out and play session work as well as get payed to play with other bands. I love my instrument and i will do anything i can to keep on learning and grow to better myself as an all around eclectic musician.
I started off in my early days playing in my first band By Permit Only, which was a cool band cause it was just 4 friends playing music together and going through the hard trials and tribulations of what it is like to play in a band. When we first started we were just playing covers but had no desire to write our own stuff. But then Colin Jennison, (singer/songwriter/guitar player) stepped up to the plate and chose to write his own stuff. He would show us his stuff and we knew he was on to something amazing and took the ball he had grabbed and ran with it. We played lots of shows which consisted of Massey Hall, Skydome, and The Opera house just to name a few. We had a great following and we were able to know what it felt like to sell a few albums and have the kids coming to the shows and singing along to the words of all the songs we would play. After the shows we knew we had to cut a record and we did just that through playing Supernova shows which led us to Whirlwind Sound Studios. The album was called "Windbreaker" and that was such a landmark album for me because it really gave me a chance to see what it was like to record in a nice studio and have a nice budget for this recording to back it up. This band really meant alot to us and I know I speak for all the guys in that band when i say that it was for sure an amazing trip and we learned alot together. And when I say we, I mean my really great friends Colin Jennison, Mike Park and Sean Andrews. Which brings me now to the later years.
Which brings me to my lother BIG project which is a band called Rosedale. This band actually grew up and started playing their instruments because of my old band By Permit Only, just from listening and enjoying the music and being loyal fans. And to me that's the greatest compliment any artist can recieve so for that i thank you guys! Also for this band I wasn't even drumming, i was the lead singer, the front guy, the big cahuna lol! Naw i wasn't that much of a rockstar! lol Anyways, i had a great run with this band and was by far the most successful of any of the previous projects i was ever involved with. This band consists of Jon Podzyhun on Bass, Mike Liorti on Guitar, Mitch Sousa on Guitar and Emerson Tavares on Drums. Which by the way speaking strictly drummer and drummer, this fuckin kid is gonna be a monster one day. Travis ain't got shit on this kid lol! I love you Emmo! Anyways, Rosedale showed me about true friends being in a band and really helped me understand what a true fucking SHOW is. You see we had the chance to tour with another great indie band called Hello Kelly and they really guided us into that "show" band, but i was dealing with some hard workers in Rosedale. These guys just never stopped working and they will be great one day on TV, on best selling records and on tour with huge bands. I see nothing but great things for these guys and there's not a doubt in my mind that they won't do great things and be one of the best and hardest working bands out there. I'm so proud of all of them and it's really hard for me to actually sit here and write this because I truely do love all of them and they are ALL my best friends. Check out their stuff at www.myspace.com/rosedalemusic, cause once you hear it for the first time you just can't stop listening. Guys i love you all and i'm so thankful that i got to work with such true professionals. Keep your heads up and you will be awsome.
I guess the only guy left to talk about is my awsome drum teacher Jeff Salem. He is the entire reason i started playing drums in the first place. I met Jeff way back in the early days of high school when he had longass hair and was playing in a metal band called Fist. However, he could play and still can play everything. And that's what truely facinated me about this instrument was being able to take ideas for all types of music and incorporate them into rock beats. It floored me, so i knew that i wanted to keep on playing and better myself and that's exactly what i have done. I still to this day take lessons with Jeff and am working with him currently on becoming a drum teaching. Thanks for everything Jeff, YOU ROCK BROTHA!
Well that brings me to the end folks, hope you enjoyed my story and hope one day the same people who are on this myspace page hire me and we'll kick ass on stage together and keep on rockin in the free world!
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