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UJFT's Year End Event and concert with Steve Katz! Author, producer, and musician, Katz was the founding member of the band
Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
By a founding member of the legendary Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears — a man who played the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, had affairs with famous folk singers, and jammed with everyone from Mose Allison to Jimi Hendrix — comes a blues-folk-rock memoir of resigned existentialism and decidedly New York Jewish humor (what if Woody Allen had been a rock star)? But this memoir is more than the lurid, party-with-your-pants-down memoir that has become the norm for rock ’n’ roll books. It is an honest and personal account of a life at the edge of the spotlight — a privileged vantage point that earned Steve Katz a bit more objectivity and earnest outrage than many of his colleagues, who were too far into the scene to lay any honest witness to it. Set during the Greenwich Village folk/rock scene, the Sixties’ most celebrated venues and concerts, and behind closed doors on international tours and grueling studio sessions, this is the unlikely story of a rock star as nerd, nerd as rock star, a nice Jewish boy who got to sit at the cool kid’s table and score the hot chicks.
Steve Katz’s professional career started in the late fifties on a local Schenectady, New York television program called Teenage Barn. Accompanied by piano, Steve would sing such hits of the day as “Tammy” and “April Love”. At 15, Steve studied guitar with Dave Van Ronk and Reverend Gary Davis. It was at this time that he met and befriended guitarist Stefan Grossman. Steve & Stefan would sometimes act as road managers for Reverend Davis and, in so doing, met many of the great “rediscovered” blues men of an earlier era, like Son House,
Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt.
Simon Family JCC Pool
5000 Corporate Woods Dr.
Virginia Beach, 23462
Thursday, June 4, 2020 7:30 PM EDT
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