Steve Bidwell has lived in West Virginia, Ghana, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, New York, and Austin, and adding to his drum repertoire, which includes playing with The Calm Blue Sea, Hard Proof, Brownout, and Black Pumas. Steve can play anything and everything on drums, from afrobeat and go-go, to dixieland jazz and western swing, making him in demand as a session musician and touring drummer. However, he got his start in Reston, VA, and credits the multitude of record stores, high school music instructor Jeff Fraker, and Jam for Man as some of the inspirations for his life in music, and will fight to the death anybody that doesn't recognize Fugazi as one of the most important bands of all time.