In Florida, Steve learned cabinetry and furniture making in the woodwork shop of his father. Although he had learned to play piano at age 10, Steve's ultimate goal was not to become a musician, but to join the Navy as an aviator. However, those plans were out the window when, after the family had moved back to Long Island, Steve was involved in a serious car accident on the last day of his junior year of high school. He fractured his collarbone, hip and both legs and paralyzed his right foot. He spent the larger part of the rest of his high school career rehabilitating himself and thinking about other professions.

Steve's older brother, "Skip," was already involved in rock and roll by the time Steve got there. Steve's first gig was a rhythm and bass player in Skip's band, the Kingsmen. Finally, after returning from an extended motorcycle trip around Europe, Steve joined the Spoonful in 1965. (Just for trivia's sake, he used an orthopedic brace in the Spoonful days in order for him to be able to raise his right foot as he walked. He never regained full use of the foot.)

Post-Spoonful, Steve got married and bought a boat where he and his wife lived for about four years, sailing it to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. After selling the boat, he hooked up with some musicians that he'd met in St. Thomas and leased a studio, calling it Blue Seas Studio in the Baltimore area. Many years later, Steve moved back to Florida and formed Mermaid Productions, a production company that leases out mermaid-esque costumes and operates events, with his then wife.

Today, like Joe, Steve also tours with the new incarnation of the Spoonful. On one particular jaunt, Jerry Yester's daughter, Lena, joined the tour and she and Steve fell in love and were married. In total, he's been married four times and, to my knowledge, has no children.