Steve Fowler

Steve began playing the guitar rather late in life, at the ripe old age of twenty-one, immediately after he’d left the home he was raised in, for good, and found himself in the company of three roomies, all who owned guitars. With a few years of piano and violin training from his younger days, the new instrument found eager hands at the ready! In less than a year he was already teaching his first guitar class.

Those were the days when The Beatles were already a household name and the folk music of Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul & Mary types were creating plenty of great repertoire for Steve to learn and play for pay at weddings, parties... and less profitably at other parties, campfires, ad hoc “hootenannies”, park benches, and lowered tail-gates in parking lots, as he hauled around with him his first guitar, a Gibson LGO acoustic folk guitar, practically everywhere he went.

Then came the lottery... the lottery they had to speed up the process of inducting draftees into the military machine that was stoking the fires that were Viet Nam. With lots of time over two years in the Army, Steve got better and better, and jammed with and learned from quite a number of very talented guitarists, and at length, determined his life’s calling was to be a rock’n’roll star!
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