Cousin Steve meets Eddie Money and they didn't discuss Long Island!! Eddie participated in his first on-line chat with Prodigy members on January 4, 1995.

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Welcome to Rock And Roll Never Forgets, a community about Rock Music.

I've tried to make this interest group into a community of Rock fans and musicians. I grew up with a transistor radio under my pillow, and late at night I'd hear out-of town stations with different rock and roll surveys, but there was one constant....the beat was there!

In the following years, I've picked up my guitar a few times to perform in public. Clubs like New York's Tramps, local coffee houses, camps, schools, and eventually the name of "Cousin Steve" developed.

As a hobby, I still write songs (about 800) and have been involved with the Long Island Songwriters Showcase, an organization founded in Harry Chapin's house many years ago.

Twice I have been chairman of Cable Network Battle of the Bands raising monies for charities like The Coalition For The Homeless, and The T.J. Martell Foundation (adopted by the music industry to raise money for research in leukemia, cancer and AIDS.) As an industry, rock and roll never forgets to help people.

Personally, I embrace as much rock music or Classic Rock as I can. While my youth was filled with Top 40 survey oriented radio, today I find comfort in New York's Vin Scelsa on WFUV with his special "Idiot's Delight" radio program on Saturday nights, and I have been active in the dialogue created by his fans in their own Idiot's Delight web-site & digest. It was my contributions to that E-mail digest that led me to prodigy, the internet access service, and they have allowed this website to now be made available to the World Wide Web.

There is a link between radio and rock music, and often if you pop into the Chat Rooms, you may find that I will ask: "What's on YOUR radio?" So, be prepared!

Some have asked if I am related to the famous New York radio DJ, Cousin Brucie, and it had not occured to me when I was first known as "Cousin Steve," but since so many of us grew up with the popular DJ who used to call us "cousins," I'll accept the relation, if he will. But what it comes down to is the music. The music that we share as the soundtrack to our lives.

"I am a rock and roller
I guess I'll always be
It helps me walk
It helps me talk
It helps me to be free.
Rock and Roll Lives On."
© 1986 Sunfrost Music (ASCAP)
used with permission