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Stephen John Hunter, sometimes called "The Deacon", born June 14, 1948, is an American guitarist best known for his collaborations with Lou Reed and Alice Cooper. He first played with Mitch Ryder's Detroit, beginning a long association with record producer Bob Ezrin who has said Steve Hunter has contributed so much to rock music in general that he truly deserves the designation of "Guitar Hero". Steve Hunter has played some of the greatest riffs in rock history - that first slamming solo that rings in Aerosmith's Train Kept A Rollin', the acoustic intro on Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill, and he wrote the legendary intro interlude that made Lou Reed's live version of Sweet Jane a first gold record (the Rock 'N' Roll Animal live set). ==Early life== Steve Hunter was born and raised in Decatur, Illinois. He was first introduced to music when, as a young child, he would listen to country and western music on a Zenith console radio and his father would play the guitar. He watched the Lawrence Welk show on TV at his grandparents home where he saw Neil LeVang and Buddy Merrill. His grandparents had a Harmonium and his father would sit young Steve on his lap and pump the organ while Steve would work out melodies on the keyboard. When he was eight years old he began to take guitar lessons on a Lap steel guitar. He saw and heard Jerry Byrd play the lap steel and learned what could be done on the instrument. He eventually switched to the standard guitar and was influenced by the music of Chet Atkins, The Ventures and Duane Eddy. Hunter continued playing guitar throughout high-school where he played in a group called the Weejuns, taking their name from a shoe. Later he joined the Light Brigade, a rock and soul group that played in the Decatur area. In 1967, during the Vietnam War, Hunter was drafted into the Army, trained as an x-ray technician, and served in an air evacuation hospital in Okinawa, Japan where Vietnam combat casualties were being treated. He considered becoming a doctor but he enjoyed music so much he knew he would follow a career in music. After his service in the Army, he returned to Decatur where he built a reputation as a gifted guitar player. One day he got a telephone call from his Decatur friend, John "Polar Bear" Sauter, that changed his life. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Hunter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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