Steve Farris was born on May 1st, 1957 in Fremont, Nebraska and began playing guitar when he was nine. It became his identity source and he wanted to be the best at it. His first guitar was his late mother Kathy’s acoustic, which had telephone wires for strings. Some of the first guitar riffs he learned were from songs such as ‘I Can See For Miles’, ‘Winchester Cathedral’, ‘Stick Shift’ and ‘Secret Agent’. He worked his way up to playing chordal arrangements like the American Breed’s ‘Bend Me, Shape Me’.