Contact: professor@mvlivemusic.com 330.646.4551

Steve Putt enjoys playing at open-mikes and occasionally hosts his own open-mike. His "Professor" nickname came from several different sources, mostly because of his part-time instructor's job at KSU. Steve is also the webmaster of this internet site.

Janglin' at Jade's Villa, Jeff Welsh open-mike

Steve started playing guitar soon after the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan, when he spent his Hot Dog Shoppe paycheck at Diamond Wholesale to buy a $20 acoustic instead of a class ring. Now you'll see him carrying his two favorites to open-mikes - the blue Washburn D17CE he rescued from a pawn shop, and his eBay prize - a Carvin AE185-12.

His main musical taste and influences have always been the Byrds and any others using a jangly 12-string guitar - the Beatles, Tom Petty, and so on, though he appreciates all folk music and blues - Dave Van Ronk, Josh White, Leadbelly, Dylan, the Yardbirds (and every Clapton, Beck, and Page band afterward), and many, many more.