Steve Boone

John Stephen Boone (born September 23, 1943) is an American bass guitarist and music producer, best known as a member of the American folk-rock group the Lovin' Spoonful. Boone co-wrote two of the groups' biggest hits, "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" and "Summer in the City". He was the owner of Blue Sea Studios, a recording studio used by Little Feat, Robert Palmer and many other artists.

Boone joined the Lovin' Spoonful in 1964, played bass and keyboards for the band and wrote songs with John Sebastian. He stayed with the band until it broke up in 1969. In 1991 Boone rejoined the Lovin' Spoonful with founding member Joe Butler upon its reformation, and has remained in the band since. Boone was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the band in 2000, Boone played with the original line up once more, when he was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2006.

Boone has produced several albums by many artists including Forq, Irish Times and the Oxpetals.

Boone was born to a military family in Camp Lejeune, the Marine base where his father served during the Second World War, and grew up in North Carolina, St. Augustine, Florida, and Westhampton, New York. His older brother, Skip, was also a musician, who played with Autosalvage.

His mother bought him a Gibson acoustic guitar as a teenager in 1960, after he was injured in a car crash:

Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.