MORE ABOUT STEVE & ME

THESE DAYS, STEPHEN GARD IS AN ACCOMPLISHED COMPOSER, AUTHOR, MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST. BACK IN THE 60-70S, YOU KNEW HE WAS GOING TO BE. WE USED TO WORK IN A STUDIO IN HIS BACK YARD. EVEN THEN HE HAD A RUDIMENTARY RECORDING SETUP, AND TO MY SURPRISE, FOUND HE HAD NOT ONLY KEPT THE RECORDINGS, BUT HAS THEM WITH THE NATIONAL SOUND & FILM ARCHIVE. WE USED TO RECORD SOUND TRACKS AND THEME MUSIC THAT HE COMPOSED, FOR THE NEW THEATRE, IN SYDNEY. IT WAS HERE, HE MET A YOUNG CHRIS NOONAN, THESE DAYS A HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR OF FILMS, SUCH AS "BABE". ON OF CHRIS'S FIRST FILMS WAS CALLED "GARBO" AND STEVE WAS ASKED TO WRITE AND RECORD THE THEME MUSIC. THANK GOODNESS THE BUDGET STRETCHED TO USING A PRO STUDIO! WE RECORDED IT AT ATA STUDIOS IN GLEBE. THE STUDIO WAS OWNED BY THE JACOBSON BROS.(COL JOY, KEVIN JACOBSON) KEVIN ENGINEERED THE RECORDING, I PLAYED FLUTE, STEVE, PIANO,GUITAR & BASS, LES & LARRY BRYANT, DRUMS AND CLARINET, STEVE KNEW THEM FROM SCHOOL, AND USED THEM BECAUSE THEY COULD READ MUSIC, AND ON OBOE & TUBA, IVA (IVOR) DAVIES, A CON STUDENT STEVE HAD MET SOMEWHERE. IVA WENT ON TO BECOME FRONT MAN FOR FLOWERS & ICEHOUSE, LEGENDS OF THE 70-80'S. THIS WAS HIS FIRST RECORDING AND OBVIOUSLY WE INSPIRED HIM TO GREAT THINGS. HE NOW, ALSO DABBLES IN FILM SCORES. I THINK HIS LAST ONE WAS SOMETHING CALLED "MASTER & COMMANDER"WHICH HAD SOME EX KIWI CALLED RUSSELL CROWE ACTING IN IT. HE INCIDENTALLY, WENT ON TO OWN SOME LOUSY FOOTBALL TEAM THAT CAN'T WIN A GAME. SO, IN A ROUND ABOUT WAY, STEVE IS PROBABLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THIS.