Steve Conrad
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As Marcel Proust would say, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
Male
101 years old
SAN LUIS OBISPO, California
United States
Last Login: 11/5/2009
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Steve Conrad's Interests
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| General | Resurrect lost art forms, Invention exchange, Music, Robotics, | | Music | Anything thats angular, quirky, breaks new sonic ground for its era: Elvis pre '59, John Coltrane, Earl Bostic, Cannonball Adderly, Joe Zawinul, Little Richard, Ventures, Ray Charles, Santo & Johnny, Duane Eddy, Dick Dale, Bobby Darin, Joe Meek, Phil Spector, George Martin, Mayall, Hendrix, Beck, Page, Clapton, Blackmoore, Belew, Talking Heads, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmonds, XTC, Code Blue, Motels, X, Billy Zoom, Straycats, Dwight Yokum, Nirvana, STP, Lucinda Williams, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin, PJ Harvey, Garbage, Buddy & Julie Miller, Daniel Lanoise, Neil Young. | | Movies | Anything by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Coen Brothers. | | Television | All TV shows 1955- 1992. Lost interest after that | | Books | anything I can download at www.i-am-that-i-am.com | | Heroes | Jeff Beck, Richard Feynman, Carver Mead, Lynn Conway, Adrian Belew, Nokie Edwards. |
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Ventures, Line 6-Fueling your Creative Freedom, Musicians Exchange
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Steve Conrad's Details
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| Status: | Divorced | | Here for: | Networking, Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | San Luis Obispo, CA | | Body type: | 5' 11" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Engineer/ Musician |
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Steve Conrad's Schools
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California Institute Of Technology
Pasadena,California
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Major: Electrical Engineering
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1986 to 1990 |
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb,Illinois
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Electrical Engineering
Minor: Speech/Music
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1973 to 1977 |
Hinsdale South High School
Darien,Illinois
Graduated: 1973
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Transfer Student - studied Rock Music as an extra curricular activity.
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1970 to 1973 |
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About me:
Eclectic, Creative, Spontaneous, Sense of Wonder and Curiousity, Deep well of trivia -all great assets for my role as Lead Guitarist, and Design Engineer.
I wrote and performed the incidental music for a cult SCI-FI film "LazerBlast", which aired a lot on Mystery Science Theatre 3000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserblast
At the same time I toured the southwest in a rock band called Rocket 88 - whose members went on to big time with Ratt, and Wang Chung.
Eventually I became service manager at Valley Arts Guitar in Studio City, CA just off Laurel Canyon. I set up guitars for Stevie Ray Vaughan, Larry Carlton, Frank Zappa, Devo, Oingo Boingo - rewired their studios too.
I got married and left music to work at NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab where I performed radiation testing on components for deep space probes (Galileo, Hubble Telescope, Mars Pathfinder)
In the mid 90's I returned to music as the Technical Director at Machine Head Studios in Venice, CA
http://www.machinehead.com
This is major LA post production sound design studio that produced all the music and multichannel audio sound effects for TV commercials for Lexus, CocaCola, Budweiser Frogs. I played guitar on many of those. And I performed on the soundtracks for the trailer films for Batman & Robin (with our governor as "Mr. Freeze") , Multiplicity with Michael Keaton
I moved here to San Luis Obispo in 2000 to work for Ernie Ball / Music Man, to cultivate an electronics division and support instrument amplifiers.
Since 2002, I've been at Ultra Stereo Labs Inc.
www.USLINC.COM
I'm an electronic design engineer, creating DSP digital audio processing equipment for the Cinema industry. We are a rival to Dolby. Our company has designed equipment which has won Academy Awards in Technical Achievement.
http://www.uslinc.com/about_us.html#3
I have a passion for creative invention, and feel quite fortunate to be able to be employed at an innovative local company, as well as reactivate my music career on the side here on the central california coast.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Ive met most of my idols - I'd like to meet Jeff Beck, Buddy Miller, Daniel Lanois, Ry Cooder, Brian Eno, Adrian Legg, Scotty Moore. If they could return, I'd enjoy meeting Nikola Tesla, Michael Hedges, Danny Gatton, Cliff Gallup, Link Wray.
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