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Artist
Stef Burns
12+ albums
rockguitarguitar virtuosojazzgenius
about
Stef Burns was born in Oakland, California, and grew up in Walnut Creek, CA, where he attended Northgate High School. He started playing his Dad's guitar around age 6. At 7 he got his first electric guitar which was a Winston. He upgraded to a Fender Mustang soon after. He had his first band when he was 9 years of age called "The Yellow Brick Road". They played songs like "Wild Thing" and "Louie Louie" and weren't bad for a bunch of fourth graders. In high school, he had a band called "Legend" and by then was playing a Gibson L6-S. They played Allman Bros., Lynyrd Skynyrd, Montrose, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Marshall Tucker Band and other 70's stuff. The keyboard player was Dave Mathews who later went on to play with Tower of Power, Boz Skaggs and Etta James. The next band was great. They called it "New Legend" and started to get into Jazz/Rock fusion, writing their own songs and covering tunes by Jeff Beck, Return to Forever, George Duke, Herbie Hancock and other 70's Fusion stuff. The keyboard player in this group was John Seppala who now co-writes and plays with Stef on most of his new album,"Swamp tea". They used to blow people's minds because they were so young and were playing all this intricate material. The first real club band was Omega. It was 1979. Stef was now playing a Les Paul Standard. This was a band formed by ex-Elvin Bishop band members Bill And Reni Slais, and Mickey Thomas who later had many hits with Starship. Omega was a large funk
