Steve Kimock

Steve Kimock could very well be the quintessential Bay Region guitarist, playing in a number of jazz-rock ensembles in the instrumental No towards the post-Grateful Deceased configurations of the Various other Types and Phil Lesh & Close friends. Blessed in Lancaster, PA, where he performed music with family, Kimock migrated towards the Bay Region in the middle-’70s to try out using the Goodman Brothers. Kimock begun to experiment the area in a number of outfits, like the Underdogs (with flutist Martin Fierro). He shortly started to refine his personal design — laid-back, carefree, extra fat, and intensely melodious. With regards to vibe, Kimock offers often been set alongside the past due Jerry Garcia (who once proclaimed Kimock to become his favorite unfamiliar guitarist). Kimock’s lengthy association using the Thankful Deceased family started in 1979, when he became a member of Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux’s short-lived Center of Gold Music group (which disbanded immediately after Keith Godchaux passed away in an car accident). In the Center of Gold Music group, Kimock crossed pathways with drummer Greg Anton. In 1984, the set co-founded No, an instrumental device made up of the set, along with Fierro, Bobby Vega on electrical bass, Pete Sears on keyboards, and previous Quicksilver Messenger Services member John Cippolina on acoustic guitar. In the behest of Deceased lyricist Robert Hunter, the group added vocalist Judge Murphy in 1991. Although group became a Bay Region institution, documenting a half-dozen albums of hippie-ish fusion, they by no means quite captured on nationally. Throughout his tenure in No, Kimock continued to execute with various music artists as Steve Kimock & Close friends, with which he released a self-titled record. When No disbanded in the past due ’90s, Kimock continuing on with KVHW, a quartet made up of himself, No bassist Vega, drummer Alan Hertz, and previous Frank Zappa sideman Ray Light. Around this period, Kimock begun to gig frequently with post-Dead configurations, like the Various other Ones (offering a lot of the making it through members from the music group) in the summers of 1998 and 2000, aswell as a few of bassist Phil Lesh’s tasks, through 1999. After a falling out in clumps with Lesh, Kimock continuing on with KVHW, where he enhanced his focus on electrical guitar, aswell as lap and pedal metal. Following the departure of Light, KVHW morphed in to the Steve Kimock Music group, which highlighted Kimock and Vega plus a spinning staff of guitarists and drummers. Ultimately, the lineup solidified with drummer Rodney Holmes and guitarist Mitch Stein. Vega still left the music group in 2001 and was changed by Alphonso Johnson (coincidentally Lesh’s substitute in the 2001 model of the Various other Types). In 2001, they released Reside in Colorado. In 2002, they released the dual set East Fits West.