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Steve Domer Guitar & Vocals / Cactus Wine & DDK Band |
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Steve Domer was born in 1952 and raised in north-eastern
Ohio. He started playing guitar at the age of 12 being influenced by the growth of pop rock music with the Beatles, Rick Nelson,
Elvis Presley, and the Byrds. North-Eastern Ohio was a significant area for the growth of Rock 'n' Roll music, bands,
and venues. Today the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland, Ohio in honor
of the area's early influence to the genre. In high school, Steve's band "Thyme" was popular and performed on weekends at school, church
and other local events. The website; http://www.buckeyebeat.com/comboframe.html , highlighting
Ohio bands of the 60's & 70's, contains a biographical overview. In 1969, "Thyme" released a 45 RPM single
on their Orange Records label selling it at local gigs. Excerpts of the two songs "Sunshine in the Morning" (S. Domer) and "Let Us Be Friends" (J. Coulter, K. VanKleeck, & S. Domer)
can be found on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmc5W2dzrbo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAH8UAo29uw After high
school, "Thyme" evolved into the Psychedelic Rock band, "Stars & Stripes", adding Steve's brother
Mike on bass & vocals. The band performed regularly at popular club, high school, and college fraternities from
1970-1971. The band further evolved to "Phoenix",
a power rock trio, that played continuously in the club scene throughout Ohio and four bordering states from late
1971 through early 1974. In December 1970, "Stars & Stripes", released a 45 rpm record on the Starshine Productions
label and received regional radio airplay. The A-side, "Listen" written by Steve, and the B-Side "Your
Love No More" written by his brother, Mike, are both good examples of the band's Psychedelic Rock sound at the time. Music
Videos can be found on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw5wHmeDwpo and "Phoenix"
reformed itself as a top 40's lounge act in the mid 1970's in order to avoid the stresses of a road touring band.
The new act was now called simply, the Domer Bros. Band, and performed nightly at many popular local
Youngstown / Warren venues. Here are YouTube video links; https://youtu.be/7L2LPPnsf6M and https://youtu.be/vN4ef-oTHh4 In 1977, Steve
recorded several original songs. Four of these were entered into the emerging national songwriter's festival, The
American Song Festival, receiving awards among the 100,000's of submitted entries. The song
"Girl You're The Only One for Me" is an example of these sessions, and can be heard on Steve's SoundClick site at; Steve and his wife moved to San Diego, CA in 1977 where he continued his
music career and completed his Electrical Engineering degree at San Diego
State University. In San Diego,
Steve first formed the band "Moonraker". A talented quintent featuring vocalist Lorah Bodie. However,
the band's "harder" rock focus limited opportunity for steady gigs in the top 40/disco San Diego club scene at that
time. In 1978, Steve along with the bassist, Bob
Lantis, formed "Front Page" and geared their repertoire to the more Top 40 "disco" sounds, made
popular at that time with "Saturday Night Fever". The band performed regularly in
the greater San Diego area throughout 1978 thru early 1979. Here are links to Youtube videos of
Front Page "Front Page" disbanded in 1979 and Steve focused on
completing his Electrical Engineering degree, and also devoting time to further songwriting.
He also used this period to hone himself as a solo singer / songwriter
/performer, and played steadily at a local lounge and private parties from late 1979 through 1982. In 1979, with the support
of the "Front Page" musicians, Steve recorded five new original songs. Two of these won awards in
the 1979 American Song Festival,
with the song "If Something's Wrong" placing in the semi-finals. Steve further performed at
live show-cases to launch his solo singer / songwriter phase. You can hear
"If Something's Wrong" also at Steve's SoundClick page at; https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10294063 Steve has performed as a solo singer/songwiter
ever since, performing in lounges, parties, weddings, and other events as
a guitar/vocal solo, and ocassionally with other musicians, over the last 40 years. In 1989, Steve and his family moved to Mesa, Arizona (a suburb of Phoenix). He
continues to write and record original music and started performing
more regularly in 2004 for local parties and charity events. In late 2013, he retired from his Engineering career and
now enjoys having more time to devote to his music. He continues performing regularly as a solo, as well as with
the Classic Rock & Country trio the DDK Band since 2017 Steve loves entertaining audiences with his huge repertoire
of songs from over the past six decades and working in original
songs to his sets. Please also visit Steve Domer's "Soundclick" web page to hear MP3s of Steve's
more modern original songs. You can access this from clicking on the SoundClick icon
on the home page or by going to
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