Steve Nash (guitar)

I was found abandoned in an old Gibson guitar case at the back of the Marshall Amplifier factory when I was about 3 weeks old and raised by feral cats. The only mementos I have of my real parents are a plectrum and an ankle bracelet with the name 'Layla' embroidered on it. A number of British Guitarists (whom I cannot name for legal reasons) refused when asked to compare their fingerprints with the one on the plectrum.

For real. I was born in Bristol England and raised in Bristol until my early teens when I moved to Weston-Super-Mare, a seaside resort town on the Bristol Channel. I started learning the violin when I was about 8 and graduated to clarinet when I was 11 or so. I played in various school orchestras over the years until I reached my early teens when I went to live as an exchange student in Germany for a couple of months and was introduced to the electric guitar by the guy I was staying with. I've stuck with that on and off ever since.

Following the usual formula I played in a few bands when I was still at school. None of which even got as far as getting a name but we had a lot of fun. Finally I got it together in the early 80's with a band named Trover. We spent some time in the studio and then started playing a mix of contemporary rock and our own material in pubs and bars around the South West of England, finally breaking up about 1984 as members started getting married, having kids, etc..

There were two or three attempts to get another band together, but apart from having a load of fun (and beer) rehearsing and doing a few charity gigs and birthday parties nothing much came of them.

I then gave up playing really. Apart from the occasional friend's birthday party when a few of us would get a band together and make some noise I did not really play my guitar until I moved to the US in 2001 and met up with Marty and Marc. We started jamming just for the fun of it and in time Junction 299 was born. The rest will become a legend! - Steve