Name: Steve Lackey
Instrument: Guitar
Musical
Influences: Mel
Bay, Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, Jimi, Slowhand, Skydog, Peter Green,
Keef, Mick Taylor, SRV, Jeff Beck, Hollywood Fats, Bloomie, Roy Buhcanan, J.
Garcia, B.B.& Albert King, Robben Ford, Albert Collins, Townshend, Dave
Wise, Tim Barry, Pat Farley, John Bonuomo
Gear: 1972 Gibson ES-335 (walnut), 1957
Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul reissue (Goldtop), 1960 Fender Custom Shop
Stratocaster reissue (Daphne Blue), 1952 Fender Telecaster reissue
(Butterscotch Blonde), 1967 Fender ‘Blackface’ Super Reverb, 1971 Fender
‘Silverface’ Super Reverb, 1970s Fender Deluxe Reverb, various effects pedals
Favorite
Movies: The
Godfather Parts 1&2, The Apartment, Chinatown, Spinal Tap, Amelie, Casablanca,
Memento, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Traffic, Double Indemnity, Annie
Hall, Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction, It’s A Wonderful Life, Shrek, North By
Northwest, Apocalypse Now, Big Night, Mullholland Drive, Down By Law, On the
Waterfront, Silence of Lambs, Alien, Airplane, Rear Window, GoodFellas, Wizard
of Oz
Favorite
Albums: Kind of
Blue, Layla, Axis: Bold As Love, The Bends, The Harder They Come, Led Zep IV, A
Love Supreme, Marquee Moon (Television), Exile on Main Street, London Calling,
Pretenders debut, Rust Never Sleeps, The Trinity Session (Cowboy Junkies),
Under The Table and Dreaming, The Sun Sessions, Rubber Soul, Who’s Next, I
Never Loved A Man The Way That I Loved You, King Curtis at the Fillmore, Natty
Dread, The Doors debut, O (Damien Rice), Fair Warning, Hard Again (Muddy
Waters), Grievous Angel, Born To Run, Moondance, Automatic For The People,
Allman Brothers At the Fillmore, Blood on the Tracks, Rocks, Blue, Blow by
Blow, B.B. King Live at the Regal, Never Mind the Bollocks, Lucinda Williams,
Dire Straits debut, Derek Trucks Band Live at Georgia Theatre, Diamonds On The
Inside (Ben Harper), Blowin’ Like Hell (William Clarke), The Immortal Otis
Redding, Sheryl Crow, Bright Sized Life (Metheny/Pastorious), A Go Go (John
Scofield w/Medeski, Martin & Wood), Saxophone Colossus (Sonny Rollins),
Pretzel Logic, Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Favorite
Books: The
Prophet (Kahlil Gibran), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (
What I
Drink When I’m Performing: Pale Ale
When
My Mind Wanders During a Gig, I Usually Wind Up Thinking About:
When my mind wanders, I’m NOT thinking at all. In fact, it’s when I do my best work! On a good gig, I might achieve a few precious
minutes of this pure non-thinking state and it makes all the pre-thinking worth
it. At some point in every gig I want to
be the ape in ‘2001’ chucking the bone in the air in ecstasy- LOL
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