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Steve Savitzky
12+ albums
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about
As you might expect for someone whose mother is a librarian and whose father went to graduate school with Isaac Asimov, and both of whose parents loved folk music, Steve Savitzky was well-prepared to be a filker. And as someone whose parents had a teletype in their bedroom connected to one of the very first timesharing systems, it's not surprising that about half of his recorded songs are about computers; some, like Pegasus winner "The World Inside the Crystal", are even serious. As someone who learned to fingerpick melodies on a guitar because without something to follow he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket... (the rest is left as an exercise for the reader). Steve went to grad school in computer science back in the days before the ARPANET, and spent many of his evenings hanging out in the campus coffeehouse. One one of those evenings he attracted the attention of a high school senior named Colleen. Their paths crossed from time to time; eventually she invited him to an SCA tourney. A couple of years after that, tired of waiting for him to get a clue, she asked him to marry her. He had sense enough to accept. That was thirty-odd years ago -- some of them very odd. They started going to conventions in 1978, and quickly gravitated toward the filking. Since then Steve has been to all of the Bay Area filk cons and Baycons, as well as most of the Westercons and Worldcons within easy driving distance of their home, Grand Central Starport in San Jose. Steve gave his first concert
