My name is Steve Holzer. I started this site because I'm completely and unabashedly addicted to music. I admire and appreciate musicians tremendously, so I'd like as many people as possible to discover and support them and have much more fun themselves. Initially I spent about six months getting the information for the site, designing it and adding the links. I had no previous web design experience, so it was pretty painful.
I go to 140 shows a year and have seen about 1700 bands in about 2750 shows at exactly 342 venues (please check out the Concerts I've Been To pages. I'll likely never miss High Sierra, Las Tortugas and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Music Festivals. I have a pretty large music collection, including 700 albums.
I was born in Queens, New York in March, 1960, and grew up in the Five Towns in Nassau County, Lawn Gylan. I earned (?) a B.A. in English at the State University of New York at Albany in 1982. I lived in San Francisco and then Oakland, California for eight years each. I have lived in and loved Reno, Nevada, since October 1998.
Most of my work experience has been as a legal editor, paralegal, administrative assistant and customer service representative. I booked and promoted shows in Reno for six months. Bands I booked included Tea Leaf Green, Blue Turtle Seduction, Taarka, Global Funk, Absynth, Frame of Mind, Deadweight (members of Les Claypool's bands), Sinclair and Spoonfed Tribe. I still help promote shows, mostly for the phenomenal Crystal Bay Club in Crystal Bay, Nevada (the best venue I've ever been to), Renegade Productions and Paesano Productions.
I'm an avid photographer and love films (I've seen 2555), concert DVDs, creating graphic art, hot springs, hiking, backpacking, the New York Giants and Yankees, beer and cross-country skiing. I play percussion pretty well monthly at a superb Reno drum circle, but the only time I played with a band was at an open mic night in Tahoe with Charlie Hitchcock (Particle, Banyan) and Anthony Smith (Global Funk, Trunk Fulla Funk) in 2007.
Please add me as a friend on Facebook and join my MUSICPHOTOGRAPHICS.COM Facebook group. I list everything I add to my site (shows, photos, art, bands, musicians, links) just about daily in "Info" under the "Recent News" tab.