Steve is the real deal, I met him briefly in December during ATP Nightmare before Christmas where we (rather large group of writers, fans, artists, etc) shared a table for a meal and for a guy with such prodigious talent he was much like his writing in these threads very articulate, broad grasp of a myriad of subjects, and phuckin hilarious. It's a common refrain to say that a musician you admire "is really cool" when you actually meet them and they're not a straight up asshole, but he does really warrant it. He's a really phuckin geniune guy, right along the lines of Thurston Moore, et al in the pantheon of artists doing it the right way....
