Steve Gorman was born on 17-08-1965 in Muskegon, Michigan. He was raised in Sevema Park, Maryland until the age of 10, when he moved to Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He remained in Kentucky until the age of 21. He is the youngest of 5 brothers and 2 sisters.



Steve began drumming in his school band in the fourth grade, playing the snare. He was originally asked to play the bells, but he "couldn't handle the bells."



His first album was "Two Years On", by the Bee Gees, which he won as a door prize at one of his brothers' basketball games. It wasn't until he was given the Beatles records "Meet the Beatles", "Help", and "Rubber Soul" all at once, that his musical fire was sparked, and as Steve said, "That's all she wrote."



Ringo Starr is Steve's number one favorite drummer, but he has said he can:

"cop something useful from almost anyone. You have to figure out your role in your own band. I'm a fan of musical drumming. John Bonham, I really liked his feel, Charlie Watts, Jody Stevens, there's so many."

Steve continued to play music. At Western Kentucky University, as a freshman, he began playing a friend's drum kit. In college he played only three gigs in three years, all of which were at his school's New Year's Eve party.



Steve began to get serious, and in February of 1987, at the age of 21 he took a friend's advice and moved to Atlanta, Georgia. To make ends meet he worked at a record store in Five Points. He met Chris Robinson through a mutual friend, James Hall, and they quickly became best friends and moved in together. Steve and James' group, Mary My Hope, shared a house and rehearsal space with Mr. Crowes Garden.



Chris and Rich Robinson became unhappy with their second drummer, Jeff Sullivan who later joined Drivin' and Cryin', and fired him because of a 'rocky relationship'. Without a drummer, Steve was asked to sit in for the recording of their A & M Records demo in late 1986/early 1987. Chris:

"So we went up there and after the first night and it was like 'Steve, you're kinda in the band' and he's like, 'Yeah, I know." It was very informal, but he was in, becoming the first member of the present Crowes line-up to join the Robinson brothers."

(Source: this bio is based on an interview with Steve by Jenna Skopp, written by Christopher B. Eddy for The Black Crowes.com).



Other band(s) Steve Gorman played in:

The O.D. Jubilee Band,

The Thunderbolt Greaseslappers,

The Big Toe



The Black Crowes were taking a hiatus in 2001. During that break Steve Gorman decided to leave the band "for personal reasons". He was replaced by Bill D.oObrow.



After his decicion Steve Gorman started to work with George Drakoulias as well as jamming with Slash. He completed an album with Joe Fuerstman that was released in the Spring of 2003.



In September of that same year Steve was asked to fill in for Stereophonics-drummer Stuart Cable who got fired.