My name is Steve Holzer. I started this site because I'm completely and unabashedly addicted to music. I admire and appreciate musicians tremendously, so I'd like as many people as possible to discover and support them and have much more fun themselves. Initially I spent about six months getting the information for the site, designing it and adding the links. I had no previous web design experience, so it was pretty painful.
I go to 140 shows a year and have seen about 2000 bands in about 2525 shows at exactly 330 venues (please check out the Concerts I've Been To pages. I'll likely never miss High Sierra, Bobolink, Las Tortugas and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festivals. I have a pretty large music collection and 3850 Friends on MySpace, most of which are bands and musicians. It's like owning my own radio station! Please add me as a friend on MySpace and Facebook! Please also join my MUSICPHOTOGRAPHICS.COM group on Facebook. Everything I add to my site (shows, photos, art, bands, musicians, links) is listed just about daily under "Recent News on the group.
I was born in Queens, New York in March, 1960, and grew up in the Five Towns in Nassau County, Lawn Gylan. I earned (?) a B.A. in English at the State University of New York at Albany in 1982. I lived in San Francisco and then Oakland, California for eight years each. I have lived in and loved Reno, Nevada, since October 1998.
Most of my work experience has been as a legal editor, paralegal, administrative assistant and customer service representative. I booked and promoted shows in Reno for six months. Bands I booked included Tea Leaf Green, Blue Turtle Seduction, Taarka, Global Funk, Absynth, Frame of Mind, Deadweight (members of Les Claypool's bands), Sinclair and Spoonfed Tribe. I still help promote shows, mostly for the phenomenal Crystal Bay Club in Crystal Bay, Nevada (the best venue I've ever been to), Renegade Productions and Paesano Productions.
I'm an avid photographer and love films (I've seen about 2500), concert DVDs, creating graphic art, hot springs, hiking, backpacking, the New York Giants and Yankees, beer and cross-country skiing. I can play percussion pretty well, but the only times I've played in bands were at open mic nights, including once with Charlie Hitchcock (Particle, Banyan) and Anthony Smith (Global Funk, Trunk Fulla Funk) in 2007. Aside from karaoke, I've sung only one song in public, twice with friends in Space Case, a Reno funk trio w/ organ, bass & drums. It was a song I wrote the lyrics for called "Hippies R Us." It will eventually be on a CD and I hope to sing it at High Sierra some day! Don't think it would go over too well on American Idol!!