Steve Fister is a vital, sparkling guitar player from Los Angeles, California (U.S.A.) who expresses his style as melodic, blues-influenced rock, as one can appreciate on his latest release, "Age Of Great Dreams".  His favorite guitars include a '63 Gibson ES 345 (once owned by Freddy King) and a Fender Strat. Fister has played guitar since 1973, and plainly avows his career goal, "To make a new "Steve Fister" record every two years and tour in support of it 3 to 4 months a year while continuing to play on other peoples records and tours."
When asked to reveal his number one effect for the guitar, Fister countered with, "Digital delay," and then detailed his musicial goals, "I am trying to express myself through songs that convey strong emotions and feelings--music that paints a picture and tells a story, without relying on a lyric to tell the listener how to think or feel." He hopes to someday study film scoring, and is at this time listening to John Scofield, Muddy Waters, Bill Frisell, Charlie Christian and James Brown. His utmost satisfaction? "To play a show with my trio and have people who are not into mostly instrumental "guitar music" leave happy, preferably buying a CD and telling their friends," he answers decidedly.
 Fister details continuing and future projects in his own words, "Being a Los Angeles "gun for hire". It's not easy to pay the bills on instrumental guitar alone, but I'm working on it."
Fister's discography (available here at Guitar Nine Records) includes several solo albums ("Shadow King", "Age Of Great Dreams", "2 Ways 2 Skin A Groove", "Dodgin' Bullets", "Unspoken Vol. 1") and participation on another recording (Pat Travers "Blues Magnet").
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