Steve Doré

My music life started 50+ years ago with the classic piano lessons at the age of 6. Then one day back then, I heard the greatest piano style. It was Liberace on his TV show playing boogie woogie! From then on, I searched for the stuff but never really did find what I was looking for until I turned 50 years old! Then I finally heard the masters - Ammons, Lewis, Johnson, and Seeley and Zwingenberger for the first time... Wow. I put all my energy into http://boogiewoogie.com. I will remain a devoted boogie woogie enthusiast for ever. Rock 'n' roll took over my life as a teen and I got a guitar and copied my first idol, Chuck Berry (but who was that absolutely fantastic piano player in the background of Chuck's tunes... of course, I know now it was Johnnie Johnson). I wanted to be as good as both of them. I spent most of my time practicing. Since a real piano in a band was nearly impossible in those days, I stuck to guitar and moved on to idolizing the Clapton and Bloomfield styles. I ate, drank and slept blues guitar leads and guitar consciousness and then began to write some tunes, played my way through the University of Maine. The advent of the electronic piano made it possible now to use it in a band. What's next? Logically, I would say more music for the disaffected citizen seems to be in my future. I am passionate about exposing the truth of our monetary system. It says in our own Constitution that only gold and silver shall be money. That seems to make Fed Reserve notes illegal doesn't it? But we don't abide much by our own supreme law of the land much these days. Then there is the subject of our freedom. Our individual freedom - not the freedom dictated by some group or groups for my benefit. Scary stuff going on. Interesting times for sure. I am anxious to see what's next.