Steve Smith (musician)

Steve Smith ( born August 21, 1954 in Whitman, Massachusetts) is an American drummer; he became world-famous as a member of the band Journey.

At the age of 9 years, Steve started playing drums. In September 1978, he joined as a replacement for the retiring Aynsley Dunbar on a Journey. He was in the band until 1985, and was at the instigation of singer Steve Perry, as well as bassist Ross Valory, taken from the band. Then he took care only to his solo projects and was also an in-demand session drummer. Even during the time when he had the Journey Formation Vital Information in 1983. Among other things, he played in 1985 the title of "Heaven", a ballad from Bryan Adams for his album " Reckless ". In 1996 he played with at the reunion album Trial by Fire by Journey, but rose as singer Steve Perry in May 1998 from the band Journey from.

He founded in 1983, Tim Landers, Dave Wilczewski, Dean Brown and Mike Stern own jazz-rock band Steve Smith and Vital Information, which also played Eef Albers. To be classified fusion musicians not only in the category, he took 2002 Album Reimagined: Volume 1 - Jazz standards, on which he sang the John Coltrane plays " Impressions" and " Countdown", as well as titles from the Ellington repertoire such as " Caravan" and " Mood Indigo " and Miles Davis ' " All Blues ". In 2005, the album Flashpoint followed with Dave Liebman and Anthony Jackson.

Steve Smith has been playing drums for over 30 years by the German manufacturer Sonor. To mark this anniversary, he was on an extended, worldwide workshop tour that also took him by Germany.

At the Modern Drummer Magazine's readership voted him five times consecutively to "No. 1 All-Around Drummer". He was named in 2001 by the same journal to one of the " Top 25 Drummer of All Time"; In 2002 he was elected to the " Modern Drummer Hall of Fame ." His DVD Steve Smith Drumset Technique - History of the U.S. Beat from Hudson Music was awarded " No.1 Educational DVD of 2003." More instructional DVDs by him are The Art of Playing With Brushes and Steve Smith Drum Legacy.

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