Steve Webb:  

After completing a BA in journalism at the U of Oklahoma, I spent roughly 20 years as a daily newspaper journalist, mostly as an entertainment writer or editor but covering county government and the like as a staff writer and the hotel industry as a contributing editor for a trade magazine. As a pop music critic / television columnist for a dying PM daily in upstate New York, I reviewed something like 900 concerts and 2,000 albums and conducted interviews with a wide range of creative figures in each medium. The most impressive would be Smokey Robinson, Lena Horne, Howard K. Smith and assorted members of the Grateful Dead, Beach Boys, Allman Brothers, Talking Heads, U2 (as kids, had to have parental notes to play in bars at that point) and Parliament-Funkadelic. I left newspapering fulltime in 1995 although I continued to write freelance for a number of newspaper clients on theater and popular music. I completed an MA in American Studies at the University of South Florida and have spent it seems like ages turning my thesis into a biography of sorts of Brian Wilson. Still not done. I live in Lakeland, Fla. now, where I started the paper's entertainment section in 1990. I have a job, a wife (second), two kids, two dogs and three guitars. First time dad at 49, not the path you expec...Expand for more