I always wanted to be a working musician. Then I knew I could make a job out of it. You know what? I tell a lot of people when I started playing drums, I did it for enjoyment. Looking back on the early days of your career, did you think you would still be going strong all these years later? In rock, biggest influences were all the guys from the ‘60s like Mitch Mitchell, Ginger Baker, Ringo Starr and Charlie Watts. With drums, my biggest influences were guys like Buddy Rich, who is an incredible jazz drummer. Who would you cite as the biggest influences on you as a drummer? Some of my earliest memories are from the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Dave Clark Five and all of them! You can see I have been playing my whole life, since the early ‘60s. I have been playing drums since I was 6 years old, so I have been playing drums for almost 50 years now! Ya know, I started playing drums even before I started playing rock ‘n’ roll. I was curious to learn how music first came into your life? Steve Riley The music you have been instrumental in creating over the years inspired many a talented musician. Icon sat down with the infamous drummer to discuss the new album, his thoughts on the band’s longevity, life on the road and much more! As the band prepares to unleash one of it’s most ambitious studio albums to date, ‘Hollywood Forever,’ Jason Price of Icon Vs. Through the years, Riley has provided the crushing backbeat to the band’s biggest hits and shows no signs of slowing down. Such is the case with legendary drummer Steve Riley. The members of this extraordinary band are living proof that some people listen to rock n’ roll and some have it coursing through their veins. Even to this day, the band’s name and musical legacy remain ingrained in the fabric of the Sunset Strip’s most notorious era. Guns first exploded onto the scene in the early eighties and wasted no time carving their own niche into Los Angeles’ highly competitive music scene.
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