Rock Guitarist Steve Stevens is globally known as the long-time guitarist for Billy Idol, but there is so much more to his amazing story!

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 14 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Guitarist Steve Stevens is one of the most original guitarists to emerge from the ’80s rock scene, best known for his 30 year partnership with Billy Idol, his work on Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana”, his Grammy Award winning performance on “Top Gun Anthem” and his work with Vince Neil on “Exposed”. Stevens catalog of hit songs that he co-wrote & performed alongside Idol include “Rebel Yell”, “Eyes Without A Face” and “Flesh for Fantasy”. They sound as fresh and relevant today as the day they were released, as evidenced by being recently covered by artists as varied as Miley Cyrus, Green Day, Queens of the Stone Age, Him, Black Veil Brides, Children of Bodom, Dope, Daughtry, Sum 41, Blink 182, Drowning Pool, Murderdolls, Deathstars and The Donnas. In addition to currently working on a new record together, Idol & Stevens continue to tour to sold out crowds all over the world. Stevens has also lent his unmistakable sound and style to many hit records, including Pink “Try This”, Diana Ross “Eaten Alive”, Joni Mitchell “Chalk mark in a Rainstorm”, Robert Palmer “Don’t Explain”, The Thompson Twins “Here’s to Future Days”, Ric Ocasek “This Side of Paradise”, Peter Criss “Let Me Rock You”, Juno Reactor “Shango”, “Hokata”, and “Pistolero”, Kyosuke Himuro “Beat Haze Odyssey”, Steve Lukather “Lukather” and on his solo outings with Steve Stevens Atomic Playboys “Atomic Playboys”, Jerusalem Slim “Jerusalem Slim”, Bozzio Levin Stevens “Black Light Syndrome” and “Situation Dangerous” and the critically acclaimed solo releases “Flamenco A Go Go” & “Memory Crash”. https://www.SteveStevensguitar.com https://www.BillyIdol.net https://www.Instagram.com/stevestevens Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ZMaiDLfxDaoG7ULXgcnDb?si=1heevWlORWK9s6Z7f5trBw Music Matters podcast is hosted by pro musician, producer, and Sports Illustrated photographer Darrell Craig Harris who is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The series has reached over 400,000 streams in 40 countries. MMP receives gear support from Shure Microphones,.Focusrite, and others. Intro and outro voice overs provided by Nigel John Farmer from www.VoiceWrapStudio.com in France. Our thanks to Rodney Hall FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for our intro and outro backing music clip. Contact us at [email protected] Social: www.Instagram.com/musicmatterspodcastofficial www.Facebook.com/musicmatterspodcastofficial https://www.Youtube.com/@musicmatterspodcast https://www.Twitter.com/musicmattersdh Website www.MusicMattersPodcast.com support our mission by joining us on Patreon! https://www.Patreon.com/MusicMattersPodcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to Music Matters podcast with Daryl Craig Harris,
0:07.1	talking about all things music with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.
0:22.8	Steve Stevens, how are you doing today?
0:25.3	I'm great, neighbor.
0:26.4	I know, yeah.
0:27.8	We just talked about that.
0:29.5	We're both in Henderson, Nevada, these days.
0:30.5	Right on.
0:35.9	So you're Grammy Award winning, which is you won the Grammy for the Top Gun theme, which is one of the best movie themes ever in my opinion.
0:40.0	Obviously, you're very well known for your partnership with Billy Idol over 30 years.
0:46.2	You've done a lot of other stuff too,
0:47.8	playing in several other bands and playing on several other people's records.
0:51.4	So, yeah, it's an amazing career.
0:56.1	Tell me how you got started because you're a Brooklyn born originally, right? I'm born in Brooklyn and lived in Brownsville, which is where
1:03.9	Mike Tyson and Riddick Bow from. Oh, wow. Okay. A little tough neighborhood.
1:16.3	And then my parents moved to Rockaway, Rockaway Beach, and that's primarily where I grew up.
1:21.7	And there was a very famous protest singer named Phil Oaks from Rockaway.
1:25.2	And his sister was my very first guitar teacher.
1:28.7	And I just picked up the guitar.
1:32.3	Actually, I have an older brother five years older than me,
1:34.9	and all of his friends played guitar.
1:40.9	This is like the height of the folk music boom, you know, James Taylor, Johnny Mitchell.
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