I'm Steve Burdette and thanks for checking out my music site. I've loved music since about forever. In junior high I got together with some friends to form my first garage band. We were terrible but it didn't matter. Our first gig was at a local junior high school and we did great, and by great I mean we didn't get booted off the stage and we got paid.
I don't remember a lot of the gigs but I remember one at the "rich kids" junior high. That night, I learned something else about being in a band. It was a great way to meet girls and I have two daughters to prove it. It seems like any Friday or Saturday night that we weren't playing, the guy who never got invited anywhere, "me", was invited to some party at somebody's house. And yes, I might have met you at one of those parties.
It seems like I played music all through college.
Now I'd love to tell you that I went on to have a great career as a rock star but that path was not in my future. I still loved music but it wouldn't pay the bills, especially with a wife and two little girls depending on me. Nope, it was corporate America, Goodyear to Western Wireless and a host of other great companies in between. I had a terrific career in business. And yes, I might have met you at one of those companies.
I lived in six or eight different cities, had lots of wonderful experiences. (OK, show of hands, how many of you have thrown out the first pitch at a MAJOR LEAGUE baseball game). I also met and married the girl of my dreams.
When I got old (as opposed to the current "really old"), Sharon said I could quit work if I had a hobby so I drove to Guitar Center in Orlando and bought a Hammond Organ. I had guitars and I could plunk around but I played keyboards in many of the bands I was in. From there it was another Hammond and a Leslie and now I've got lot's of gear. I knew there must be a way to record this music in the new digital age so I bought some recording gear, hooked up with my friend from high school days, Randy, and we started making music together. You'll find all of our music here, www.inception67.com, on Bandcamp, and most of it on our You Tube Channel.
I've had great fun doing this, we produced over 40 songs and I'm very proud of them. I owe Randy a huge debt of gratitude for everything he taught me about writing and recording music. But I've had some things to say from time to time that were my own thoughts and ideas. So I recorded these myself, my "solo" projects, and I launched this website to give those songs a voice.