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| SC Blog: Floating Through Life? | | Ever get that feeling that you’re just blowing with the wind, not in charge of your own destiny? Being reactive instead of proactive? Well, I know the feeling. But ya gotta remember that even when you allow yourself to be carried like that - it’s still a choice and you’re in control of it. Yes, you should absolutely make your own plans and follow through on them - but being able to seize an unforeseen opportunity when it comes your way takes presence of mind…and it could put you on a path to something good in your future. | |
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I always think of that poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost where a guy comes to a fork in the road and cannot travel both paths so he must choose. The last line is “and that has made all the difference” - and I can dig it because that choice was the one he was supposed to make to fulfill his destiny. | |
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So don’t despair my luvlies…just look at your current situation and trace back the steps from where you are now to see how you got there. I bet you’ll find that there were some things you chose and some things that chose you. But in my mind, it’s all been written, predetermined, it’s destiny, fate or whatever you want to call it. That’s what I have come to believe…I gotta make some kind of order out of this chaos we live in. | |
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Steve | |
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| | SC Blog: Joining Michael Monroe's Band | | I gladly joined forces with Michael, Sami Yaffa, Ginger & Karl Rockfist about 2 months ago after getting a call from Sami that they needed a guitar player. Even before I played a note with them I had a feeling that this band might be some much needed new blood for me, a musical transfusion that could get something new flowing…at a welcome time. As I expected, the shows have been amazing and inspiring and I’ve felt myself being pulled up in the energy of the new people around me. Good chemistry. | |
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As you know, since 2004 I’ve been playing guitar with the New York Dolls and in 2006, started a new band of my own – Steve Conte & The Crazy Truth. Now here’s the thing; when it comes to my own band I pretty much do everything and in the Dolls, David Jo and Sylvain are at the controls. But it wasn’t until I hooked up with Michael, Ginger, Karl & Sami as a team that I realized how I’ve been itching for a more creative, give-and-take band situation. And lemme tell ya – I have great expectations for this new Michael Monroe band. Nearly everyone is an artist, a bandleader, a song writer, a musician, a lead singer…and a crazy son of a bitch. Karl, our drummer is the one guy I didn’t know much about before the band but already I’ve seen that he’s a sweetheart and we’ve got a lot in common. And that’s a necessary ingredient for a band, commonality. Though we’re all unique individuals born in different parts of the world at different times, where we “overlap” is where the good times are. On the bus we crack each other up with our life stories, groove to The Stooges, Cheap Trick, Dead Boys, MC5, Black Oak Arkansas, and laugh a lot at Arnold Schwartzenegger, Cheech & Chong, Better Off Dead and Jim Dandy’s lyrics. It’s great to be playing music with people who heads are in the same place on and off the stage. I can’t wait to get back on that bus with these lunatics! | |
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See ya soon- |
Steve
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| discography |
the contes - bleed together (thunderdog recordings)
crown jewels - bubble & squeak, bootleg rarities (thunderdog recordings)
crown jewels - linoleum, spitshine (thunderdog music)
new york dolls - morrissey presents: the return of the new york dolls, live from royal festival hall (attack/sanctuary)
new york dolls - one day it will please us to remember even this (roadrunner)
adrienne frantz - anomaly (wrong records)
dr. selflove - deuce bigalow: european gigolo soundtrack, SC - better things (sony)
various artists - altogether now: a beatles children's album featuring SC, the bangles, grandaddy & rachel yamagata (little monster)
maceo parker - funk overload (W.A.R.)
peter wolf - fool's parade (mercury records)
billy squier - tell the truth (capitol records)
yoko kanno - cowboy bebop, wolf's rain, brain powerd, song to fly, ghost in the shell (victor)
company of wolves - company of wolves, rhythm & booze (mercury records), steryl spycase, shakers & tamborines (ryf records)
various artists - bigger than the beatles: a beatles tribute (main man records) SC - working class hero
steve conte - turn, turn, turn-(CNR/arcade)
mr. henry - tremolux, jackhammer, 40 watt fade (mighty hudson music)
jessica owen - ever-so-slightly rearranged (sway gypsy records)
better days - leaving the blue (bd records)
pancho's lament - leaving town alive (as you wish music)
slaves of new brunswick - (westwood entertainment)
paul king - joy (epic records)
alex rozum - lost to the street (warner bros.)
drive she said - (music for nations)
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new york dolls - morrissey presents: the return of the new york dolls, live from royal festival hall
new york dolls - dance like a monkey
new york dolls - gotta get away from tommy
company of wolves - call of the wild, the distance
glen burtnick - follow you
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| equipment |
| guitars: |
gibson - ’59 & ’60 les paul juniors, ’70 les paul custom, ’77 ES-335, early ‘60s melody makers (6 & 12 string), 2005 white les paul supreme, 2006 non-reverse firebird w/ 3 p-90s
fender - ’62 stratocaster, ’68 telecaster w/B bender, ’63 fender VI (6 string bass)
other - ’59 danelectro "jimmy page", MSA pedal steel, lap steel
acoustics - martin D-18, gibson J-160E, guild 12 string
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| amplifiers: |
’67 marshall "plexi" 100 watt head w/ ‘70s 4x12 cabinet
’62 vox AC30 (non-top boost)
’65 blackface fender bandmaster head w/ 2x 12 cabinet
‘60s ampeg reverb rocket
‘60s brownface fender princeton
‘60s sano hi-fi lounge amp
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| effects: |
boss CE-1 chorus ensemble
maestro echoplex
e-bow
colorsound & vox wah-wah pedals
electro harmonix small stone phase shifter
mutron II envelope filter
voodoo lab tremelo pedal
ibanez analog delay pedal
ibanez tube screamer Pedal
boss octaver pedal
boss graphic EQ pedal
sans amp stomp box
jen tonebender pedal
ampeg "scrambler" pedal
seek-wah pedal
digitech "jam man" looping pedal
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| education |
B.A. in jazz guitar performance from rutgers university, NJ (studied with kenny barron, ted dunbar & paul jeffrey)
A.A. in music, brookdale college, NJ
private studies with barry finnerty, dennis sandole, chris spedding, harry leahey and mike santiago
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| other |
| (musical director, televison, touring, recording, songwriting) |
| jill jones (paisley park), glen burtnik (A&M), john waite, chuck berry, the uptown horns, robert gordon, etta James, phoebe snow, dan hartman, charlie midnight, delmar brown & bushrock, jules shear, francesca beghe (SBK), tina arena, bernard "pretty" purdie & the hudson river rats, chynna phillips (EMI), suzi quatro (polydor), blood, sweat & tears, sam moore, taylor dane, david cooper (FNAC), fiona flanagin, shy talk (CBS), the late show with david letterman, late night with conan o'brien, the henry rollins show, the jonathan ross show (UK), the chart show (UK), canal tv (FR), new year's eve 2006 little steven's underground garage, live from hard rock cafe (ESPN), the today show, solid gold, top of the pops, MTV, MTV europe, much music (canada), regis & kathy lee, westwood one radio network and sony worldwide radio network (live) and the uncle floyd show. |
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