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Steve Fossen On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Steve Fossen is this month’s conversation on Groove – The No Treble Podcast.

You can listen the new episode right here: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #57 – Steve Fossen.

Who is Steve Fossen?

When you think of rock n’ roll hall of famers, Heart, it’s easy to think about Ann and Nancy Wilson, but the origin story is a little different. Heart can be traced back to 1967 when bass player Steve Fossen formed The Army – a band that eventually morphed into Heart in 1969 after a series of different names and personnel changes – key among them being the addition of Ann Wilson in 1972 followed by sister Nancy in 1974. Heart went on to release six top ten albums and landed twenty hit singles on the Billboard top 40 charts, including ‘Crazy On You’, ‘Magic Man’, ‘Barracuda’, ‘Straight On’, ‘Dog & Butterfly’, ‘Even it Up’, and countless others. Steve was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the rest of the original Heart lineup in 2013. Steve left Heart in 1982 following the recording of Private Audition. I first met Steve when he joined the supergroup, Alias, in 1988 with vocalist Freddy Curci and guitarist Steve DeMarchi (of the Canadian arena rock band Sheriff), along with two other Heart founding members, guitarist Roger Fisher, and drummer Mike Derosier. Alias released its self-titled debut album in 1990, which went platinum, scoring hits with the power ballad ‘More Than Words Can Say’, ‘Waiting for Love’ and ‘Haunted Heart’. Steve along with drummer Michael Derosier are now touring as Heart By Heart. “Our mission is to perform the classic Heart music as faithfully as we can,” Steve says. The band features vocalist Somar Macek, guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Lizzy Daymont and guitarist Chad Quist. We had the chance to chat with this rock bassist who has lived and played through over four decades of rock n’ roll. Enjoy the conversation…

Listen in: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #57 – Steve Fossen.

What is Groove – The No Treble Podcast?

This is an ambitious effort. This will be a fascinating conversation. Our goal at Groove is to build the largest oral history of bass players. Why Groove? Most of the content about the bass revolves around gear, playing techniques, and more technical chatter. For us, bassists are creative artists with stories to tell. They are a force to be reckon with. These are the stories and conversation that we will capture. To create this oral history of why these artists chose the bass, what their creative lives are like, and where inspiration can be found.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.