BARNSTORMING WITH STEVE SOEST…AND MORE …OR SHOULD THAT BE STORMING THE BARN
Steve Soest, Guitar Guy Extrarordinaire, Fielder of Dream Guitar Questions for the “Keepin’ It Real” Column here on the site, really has some interesting guests who pop by and spend time at his way ultra cool shop out in Orange, California… a place where the weather is always perfect!
We’ve got a few photos here taken just outside the barn by his wife Paula that show some of the folks that frequent Steve’s Shop and trust one of the BEST guys in the business out there to work on their valued instruments.
After you check out the photos, do take a look at the list of clients that Steve has served well over the years which I have borrowed from his web site and listed just beyond the photos. I’ve even included a link here to a story and interview that we did with Steve a few years back… just in case you missed it the first time around…pretty darn interesting stuff. Click right here –>: Steve Soest
Don’t forget to send in your guitar questions here to the site as Steve will answer them for you as he has had plenty of years of experience repairing instruments the right way for a lot of the right people and he won’t steer you wrong.
SOME WAY COOL BARN PHOTOS FROM PAULA SOEST…
Steve & Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top
Steve & Adrian Young from No Doubt
Steve & Jonny “2 Bags” Wickersham of Social Distortion
Steve with Exene Cervenka of X and her son Henry Mortensen
Deke Dickerson & Steve
Steve & David Hidalgo of Los Lobos
Steve & AC/DC Logo Creator Gerry Huerta
Steve & Richard Stekol from Honk
Steve & Billy Zoom from X
Steve & Tom Dumont from No Doubt
Nacho Banos, Steve, & Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top
Steve & City of Orange Councilman Mark Murphy
Everyone’s favorite visitor to Soest Guitar..Smokey The Bear
SERVING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY FOR OVER 42 YEARS!!!
CHECK OUT STEVE’S CLIENT LIST
HERE ARE JUST A FEW OF CLIENTS THAT HAVE MADE USE OF SOEST GUITAR’S VARIOUS SERVICES OVER THE LAST FORTY TWO YEARS…AND HUNDREDS MORE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD OF…YET:
COMPANY CLIENTS
FENDER – CONSULTANT TO CUSTOM SHOP/ARTIST RELATIONS DEPARTMENT AND REGIONAL SERVICE CENTER (1978-2011)
GIBSON – FACTORY WARRANTY CENTER (1981-PRESENT)
OVATION – FACTORY WARRANTY CENTER (1981-2011)
YAMAHA – FACTORY WARRANTY CENTER AND PROJECT CONSULTANT (1987-PRESENT)
G&L – FACTORY CONSULTANT (1995 – PRESENT)
DUESENBERG USA – SERVICE TECH AND CONSULTANT (2005-PRESENT)
IBANEZ U.S.A. – BUILT PROTOTYPES FOR STEVE VAI “GEM” MODEL AND SERVICE CENTER (1978-1992)
DANELECTRO – DESIGNER, HISTORY, REVERSE ENGINEER AND CONSULTANT ON RE-ISSUE AND NEW MODELS (1997 – PRESENT)
and, past and present…
INDIVIDUAL/BAND CLIENTS:
RY COODER
DAVID LINDLEY
?DAVID HIDALGO (LOS LOBOS)
THE ROLLING STONES
?CHUCK BERRY
DICK DALE
GREG LEISZ
STEVE VAI
?SLASH (GUNS AND ROSES)
ELVIS COSTELLO
?ERIC CLAPTON
?T-BONE BURNETT
?VINCE GILL
KEITH URBAN
FOO FIGHTERS
?LARRY CARLTON
?PINK FLOYD
STEVIE RAY VAUGHN
?ROBBY KRIEGER (THE DOORS)
BILLY ZOOM (X)
JOHN DOE (X)
?EXENE CERVENKA (X)
VAN HALEN
?MATT COSTA
JOSE FELICIANO
TSOL
EDDIE MONEY
?RICK SPRINGFIELD
JANE WEIDLIN (THE GO GOS)
?JOHN FOGERTY
?MIKE CAMPBELL (TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS)
JOHN ENTWISTLE (THE WHO)
?BRIAN SETZER (STRAY CATS)
MIKE NESS (SOCIAL DISTORTION)
TONY KANAL (NO DOUBT)
TOM DUMONT (NO DOUBT)
THE DIRTY HEADS
ROME RAMIREZ (SUBLIME)
?AMY GRANT
JOHN DENVER
?WYNONA JUDD
?GEORGE BENSON
?JUNIOR WATSON
DUANE EDDY
THE SMITHEREENS
?CANNED HEAT
KENNY LOGGINS
?NOKIE EDWARDS (THE VENTURES)
?CESAR ROSAS (LOS LOBOS)
DAVE ALVIN (THE BLASTERS)
?PHIL ALVIN (THE BLASTERS)
?KID RAMOS (THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS)
REVEREND HORTON HEAT
?DEKE DICKERSON
?EDDIE BERTRAND (EDDIE AND THE SHOWMEN)
?TEISCO DEL REY
VINCENT GALLO (YOKO ONO, SEAN LENNON)
?DAVE MASON?KIM