Jeremey's Bio
Jeremey Stevig Started his love for playing music at Christian Encounter Ranch In Grass Valley CA, where I learned to play guitar so that I could write and play real music instead of imaginary music that I played on my air guitar. I've always had a love for music and writing music and learning to play fairly well has always been a challenge for me. To further that challenge I have taken it upon myself to try to write the most challenging music that I can that I can love.
In 1998 I was in college at Lincoln Christian College where I played in a band called the Dyslexics. They were a hard edged punk band influenced by The Ramones, Screeching Weasel, and Green Day.
After we all failed out of college, I came back home to begin my own project which came to be known as the Jeweled Iris project in which I started learning how to record music and be an engineer. In the summer of 2000, I began recording songs I had written on a tape machine 4-track Ryan Winstead, a friend for many years, let me borrow. I recorded my first demo, "The Parallax Paradox"
but my amateur approach to recording and my lack of experience proved for a less than great sounding record.
I kept at writing music learning to play several different instruments and by april of 2001, having learned a little more about recording and having more equipment on hand to use, I finished a second demo which became known as the "Eye Demo".
After Blake Ended up buying the analog 4-track off of Ryan, it broke over the summer of 2001 and for almost a year I had no recording apparatus so.... I recorded "The Pouring Rain" in Judecca Studio's(that's Ryan's Studio). In May of 2002 I Bought The BOSS BR532 and began recording songs that I had always wanted to cover begining with "Honeyspider" and then "Starla". I began writing music for what would be the "Lyre Project",
which after a year turned into a double disc and it was my proudest attempt at trying to make a near perfect album. I finished the "Lyre Project in 2003 and gave it to my friends and tried selling a few copies.
I then proceeded to draw on my friends as musical influences and started playing in separate projects which each of them. Jason Kaps and I recorded two songs, "Leaves Of Grass", and "Freedom". I also had started doing a Project with Kory Goeken and Jason Kapsdoing acoustic covers of old great songs that we had always wanted to cover. The list is exhaustive and there are a lot of songs we did. Through it all there was always Blake Ballard who had been playing music with me since 1999, who had given me opportunities to play at his mom's party in Oct. of 1999, and he was now in a band with two other guys, Ian and Dave. Ian left the band in Dec. of 2003 and so I took it upon myself to fill in and try to take the band to new levels. We got together twice maybe. Then Saltwater Psychosis began. It began with the idea that since I had a musical project with Kory, a musical project with Jason, and a musical project with Matt King, who appears on my recording of "Sweet Lullaby" on Keyboards and Bass, that we should combine all these projects into one band project. I brought them together in my apartment and Blake, who was wanting to start playing drums, looking for an opportunity to play drums in a band. I gave him that oportunity in Saltwater Psychosis.
When Kory Goeken Left The Band In Oct. 2004, we took a hyadis over the winter and gave it another shot in the spring. Now I'm currently without a band, I've written a few songs since those days, and I'm currently working on two projects, an album of Worship songs and Hymms. I'm also working on a Spiderman themed Rock Opera.
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