1. Steve Luongo was born on September 21,1952 and is an American drummer, singer, songwriter and record producer who hails from Westchester, New York.
12 Facts About Steve Luongo
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Steve Luongo was a pioneer of electronic percussion in the early 1970s.
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Steve Luongo performed extended drum solos on a massive kit including a prototype of the Moog Synthesizer Drum.
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Steve Luongo's trademark move was drumming with one hand and both feet while playing in time along with a mechanical toy monkey held up in front of a microphone with his free hand.
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Steve Luongo has produced, performed and recorded with several well-known artists including Leslie West of Mountain, Cream bassist Jack Bruce, Eddie Money, Alan Parsons, Todd Rundgren, Heart's Ann Wilson, Ritchie Blackmore, Mark Farner, Joe Walsh, Billy Squier.
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Steve Luongo produced, performed, co-wrote and toured with The John Entwistle Band until Entwistle's death in 2002.
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Steve Luongo has said that 103103 is among his proudest musical achievements.
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Williams recruited frontman Brian Johnson as the vocalist and Steve Luongo brought in his Rat Race Choir bandmate Mark Hitt on guitar.
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Later career: in 2012 Steve Luongo began a musical partnership with Cheap Trick vocalist Robin Zander by forming The Robin Zander Band.
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Zander and Steve Luongo have been friends and musical allies for many years.
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Steve Luongo began creating works of visual art at 4 or 5.
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Steve Luongo went on to study art in school and never lost his love of color and form.