Steve Ibach performs solo most of the time, with frequent special guests, Bryn Garrett and Heather Davis on vocals. Once in a while I might let a wayward harmonica player or violinist sit in.
Hi there, I'm Steve Ibach, I was born in Chicago a long time ago. I lived in Madison, Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Silverton, Colorado for a while. Eventually, I moved to the West Coast where I've lived in a few different places including Eugene, Oregon, where I seem to have stayed. While in Eugene, I've played with a number of well known musicians including the very famous Teddy Boy Roix (The Soulsations), JC Rico (Zulu Dragon), Eddie Clark (The William Clark Blues Band), Allen Ginsburg (the beat poet), Big Monty Amundson ( The Blubino's, Big Monty) Rick Markstrom ( he played in a lot of famous bands with me and used to work at The Emporium department store where he had his own office)
Henry Vestine (Canned Heat), BJ Wilson (Procol Harum), Norma Frazer (Bob Marley & the Wailers) and of course Mick Taylor (The Rolling Stones).
I'll admit, I only played with Mick Taylor for one night. His girlfriend came up to me at a solo gig I was doing and asked me if her boyfriend could sit in and I said no because I didn't recognize him. Another one night high point was having the Neville Brothers band show up at a gig I was doing and ask if they could sit in and jam. That was an easy question to answer, and then they tipped me a hundred bucks. Well that's enough about what I used to do. Eventually I tired of living in the limelight so now I mostly just stay home and watch TV a lot and play video games with my son, Julian. I also spend a lot of time recording in my home studio. All of the music that's up here on my Myspace profile was recorded there, I mean here, since that's where I am right now. I play all of the instruments on these recordings myself because nobody else ever plays exactly what I want to hear. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, wrote," Steve Ibach is painfully reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix." Blues Review says,"Steve Ibach get's great Strat tone to match his playing." The Village Voice wrote," Far out," ( they might have been referring to me, I'm not sure ) and The Eugene Register-Guard says,"Steve Ibach is Eugene's mad genius of the guitar." UPDATE: The Register-Guard just called me "Eugene's guitar guru" a couple of months ago.
I'm also a visual artist whose work has been banned here on Myspace, (no nipples allowed) but you can view it at www.tribe.
Listen up all you Ibach followin' beeyatches.... me and Ibach go way back you hear?!?!! DFA We love playin' music better than blowin' glass hands down!!!
Thanks for the add Steve....Maybe we'll see you tonight at Max's....Ain't much better than the music you play, but loose college women might just be one of the few things that could be.....
Hey you!Way too long!How have you been?I have been workin (thank god)lots lately,haven't been to Mulligans much. How about you?How life treating you?Hope to hear from you soon!
Thank you for adding me, fellow Eugenian! Nice guitar playing - you are certainly talented :) I saw you on MusicForte, too - just listening to "Henry Miller" right now. I hope you're enjoying my music, too... I just posted song clips from my new jazzy CD on my page (in the "about me" section) if you want to take a listen!
Hope you're having a great winter (and enjoying this unusual early December snow), and that you have a happy holiday season!
Hey there!Thanks for the comments!YOU are the one that kicks ass.I hope to be at Mulligans on Wed. depending on my work schedule.I would like to show up at Max's.You play on Tues nite?Hope the ice cream still resembled a frozen treat.Thanks for the cd!I would wear a Steve Ibach shirt if there were such a thing.Thanks again, peace.
I listened to all 4 tracks. Awesome guitar work. I was especially impressed with "Henry Miller". Great guitar, singing, and songwriting skills. This is the second time to say this to somebody. And I really mean it. I can hear a strong Mark Knopfler influence coming through on the guitar work, sultry singing style, lyrics, and melodic structure of "Henry Miller". And, believe me, in my books Mark Knopfler is one hell of a compliment.
