(Steve: bass)

1989: Steve at Gabe's Oasis

When Totem Soul broke up in 1990, Steve broke all ties to his former bandmates and pursued a solo career as a hand model. He ran into some resistance owing to the stub of a pinkie on his right hand, but eventually found work as a stand-in for a couple movie shoots in Portland and later in Seattle, where he was frequently mistaken for Kim Thayil.

After stumbling into a Soundgarden press conference at a downtown Seattle hotel, the band hired him as a stand-in for the publicity-shy Thayil. He did some photo shoots, and was taken on the band's 1992 European tour opening for Guns N' Roses. After a falling out with the band's manager and Kim Thayil's near refusal to perform a show at the Hippodrome in Paris because of the kerfuffle, Steve was sent back home to Portland. Shortly after his return, he was involved in an unfortunate bar fight with a drunken, angry transvestite and temporarily lost the use of three fingers on his left hand. ("You shoulda seen the other, um... guy," said Steve.) This effectively ended Steve's career as a bassist and body double for hirsute rock guitarists.

1992: Steve doubles for Kim Thayil in Seattle

Despondent about the premature ending of his musical and modeling careers, Steve developed an addiction to dog training magazines and was often seen wandering the streets of Portland scolding dog owners for improper dog walking technique. Following a string of high-profile arrests for accosting well-to-do dog owners about their lack of doggie discipline, he eventually disappeared entirely from the public view.

1994: Steve with Circus Krone in Medicine Hat, Alberta

Then, in 1994, he turned up with inexplicable body mass and his hair and beard dyed red, performing under the monkier Stefan Pfingst with the Circus Krone of Germany on their first North American tour. Steve was performing as a strong man and catcher, but his brief circus career was ended with a slip on elephant dung during a performance in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The fall resulted in the deaths of 6 acrobats who were balanced on his shoulders, and brought Steve back into the glare of the public eye.

Steve was shunned for life from performing in circuses, and never returned to the big top. But as luck would have it, the Civic Center in Moose Jaw (a.k.a. the "crushed can") needed some extra muscle to clear the saw dust and convert the arena floor back into a hockey rink.

1996: Steve wears the CCCP in Berlin

Steve stayed on with the City of Moose Jaw as a Zamboni driver, and soon, due to a case of mistaken identity, developed an undeserved reputation as an old hockey pugilist. He had played hockey growing up, but never in the minor pros like the new legend had it, and he certainly wan't a fighter. Nevertheless, he was soon playing in the local beer league where everybody wanted a piece of him. He became the fighter he never was, and his legend spread like a grass fire across the Canadian prairie.

2004: Steve with kids outside the software factory in Beaverton, Ore.

In 1996, a boxing promoter from Schenectady came through Moose Jaw looking for hockey players for an an ill-fated project. He offered Steve a tryout for a Harlem Globetrotters-style show with hockey players portraying the 1980 US and Soviet Olympic hockey teams. Steve was hired to play on the Soviet squad, and got a hair cut to match.

The show bombed in the US, and was even more of a flop in Europe, where the tour completly fell apart. In what turned out to be the final show, and With tensions running high among the skaters, Steve made a crack to the guy playing Mike Eruzione on a face off in the third period. Fisticuffs ensued, and the meager crowd began whistling and pelting the players with beer cups and insults. The promoter absconded with the receipts during the fracas, never to be heard from again, and left Steve in Rome holding a bag of smelly hockey gear, a warm bottle of beer, a stale loaf of bread and some over-ripe French cheese.

He managed to get a job playing on the third defensive pairing of an Italian hockey team for a short time, but that ended with a misunderstanding involving a hockey stick and the poodle belonging to the wife of the team's owner.

Shut out once more, Steve worked his way back to Portland on a container ship and got a job playing lead alto sax with a tex mex band in 1997. He got married in 1998, and bluffed his way into a job shuffling bits on computers. He had one very blonde child in 1999 and another very blond child in 2002.

There was a nasty episode with an alien abduction that almost cost him his marriage in 1999. He doesn't talk about it much, except to say that it's all been okay since they explained the time loop to him and the imminent cosmic shift coming in the year 2012.

Steve still lives in Portland, where he plays hockey three times a week, blogs regularly at More Hockey Less War and runs PPS Equity, a Web site dedicated to equity for all students in Portland Public Schools.