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For Steve Smith, named one of the top 25 drummers of all time by Modern Drummer magazine, life is about balance. Musically, the 63-year-old virtuoso is a longtime member of Journey, one of the ...
Journey fired drummer Steve Smith and bassist Ross Valory earlier this week after alleging they attempted an elaborate boardroom coup to seize control of the group’s finances. The news was ...
The all-star lineup of keyboardist Tom Coster (Santana/Gabor Szabo), bassist Baron Browne (Jean-Luc Ponty/Billy Cobham), guitarist Vinny Valentino (Bill Evans/Jimmy McGriff) and drummer Steve Smith ...
Drummer Steve Smith has traced the history of jazz drumming—pretty much ... including tenures with Jean-Luc Ponty and the rock band Journey. Though sometimes—as in the case of jazz-rock fusion—he was ...
Steve Smith has been a musical journeyman. In some cases, that was very literal – in three different decades, Smith served as the drummer for the iconic rock band Journey. But Journey was ...
Steve Smith won't perform "Don't Stop Believin'" when he performs with his jazz band in Harrisburg later this month, but the former Journey drummer had nothing but nice things to say about his ...
He later married his current wife, Mary Valory. Steve Smith replaced Aynsley Dubar as the drummer for Journey, joining the band in 1978 and staying on until 1985. His first album with the band was ...
Surprising news from Journey today. The band has fired Bassist Ross Valory and Drummer Steve Smith who were both part of the band’s classic line up. This is how the story seems to play out.
Life will go on.” Journey’s Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain have fired long-time bassist Ross Valory and drummer Steve Smith from the band after accusing them of trying to fund their retirement ...
Iconic drummer Steve Smith will perform at The Railyard in Scranton ... he’d already begun playing with the American rock band Journey and with French jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty ...