Steve Marker is an American

United States

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 musician

Musician

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 and record producer

Record producer

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, best known internationally as the guitarist

Guitarist

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 of the Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

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-based alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Garbage

Garbage (band)

Garbage are an alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1994. The group consists of Scottish singer Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson , Steve Marker and Butch Vig . All four members are involved in songwriting and production...

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Early life

Steven W. Marker was born in Minneapolis, MN on March 16, 1959. He spent most of his childhood and his teens in Mamaroneck, NY. At the age of 6 his parents bought him drums, but at 12 he shifted instruments and took up the guitar. He graduated from Rye Neck High School in Mamaroneck. Then he refined his instruction at Madison, and while there met Butch during the recording of a film. Butch proposed him to enter in the Spooner band and he instantly accepted. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Career

Marker co-founded Madison's Smart Studios

Smart Studios

Smart Studios was a recording studio located at 1254 E Washington Ave in Madison, Wisconsin. It was set up in 1983 by Butch Vig and Steve Marker to produce local bands....

 with Butch Vig

Butch Vig

Butch Vig is an American musician and record producer, best known internationally as the drummer of the Madison, Wisconsin-based alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of multi-platinum selling album Nevermind by Nirvana....

 in the 1983, and maintained a production career engineering and mixing records until he formed Garbage with Vig and Duke Erikson

Duke Erikson

Douglas Elwin Erickson , better known as Duke Erikson, is a founding member of the band Garbage. At 16 years old he formed his first band, The British. Erickson studied art history, and financed his studies with numerous jobs such as carpenter or truck driver...

 in 1994. He famously spotted Angelfish

Angelfish (band)

Angelfish was a short-lived mid-1990s alternative rock group originating from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed as a side-project to Scottish group Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie, after keyboardist and backing vocalist Shirley Manson was signed as a solo artist to circumvent the Mackenzies' existing record contract...

 singer Shirley Manson

Shirley Manson

Shirley Anne Manson is a Scottish recording artist and actress, best known internationally as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage. For much of her international career Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh to the United States to record with Garbage but now lives and...

's music video on MTV

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, which led to her joining the group. Since Garbage took hiatus in 2005, Marker has relocated to Carbondale

Carbondale, Colorado

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, Colorado

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.

Personal life

He is from Mamaroneck

Mamaroneck (town), New York

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, New York

New York

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, is married, and has a daughter named Ruby (born March 2000).

Garbage

Studio albums

• Garbage
  Garbage (album)
  Garbage is the debut album by Scottish/American alternative rock group Garbage. It was released in the late summer and autumn of 1995 worldwide, following critical acclaim and promising chart positions for their debut single "Vow", which entered the Billboard Hot 100.Garbage eventually spent over a...
  
  (1995)
• Version 2.0
  Version 2.0
  Version 2.0 is the second album by alternative rock group Garbage. It was released worldwide in May 1998 by Mushroom Records UK and in North America by Almo Sounds. Version 2.0 was the follow-up to the band's multi-platinum debut album Garbage. Despite a slow start, Version 2.0 went on to equal its...
  
  (1998)
• Beautiful Garbage (2001)
• Bleed Like Me
  Bleed Like Me
  Bleed Like Me is the fourth studio album recorded and produced by alternative rock group Garbage. It was released in April 2005 by Warner Bros...
  
  (2005)

Compilation albums and EPs

• Special Collection (2002)
• Absolute Garbage
  Absolute Garbage
  Absolute Garbage is the 2007 greatest hits album released by alternative rock group Garbage. The album was compiled and released by Geffen imprint Almo Sounds through Universal Music Enterprises backcatalogue division in North America and Warner Music's record label A&E Records throughout the rest...
  
  (2007)

Production career

Steve Marker served as the record producer, or co-producer on the following records:

• 1984: Killdozer
  Killdozer (band)
  Killdozer was an American noise-rock band, formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1983, with members Bill Hobson, Dan Hobson and Michael Gerald. They took their name from the 1974 TV movie, directed by Jerry London, itself based on a Theodore Sturgeon short story. They released their first album,...
  
   - Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite
• 1985: Killdozer - Snakeboy
• 1992: Gumball - Wisconsin Hayride
• 1993: The Heart Throbs - Vertical Smile
• 1995: Garbage - Garbage
• 1998: Garbage - Version 2.0
• 2001: Garbage - Beautiful Garbage
• 2005: Garbage - Bleed Like Me

He also engineered the following records:

• 1987: Tar Babies - Fried Milk
• 1989: Killdozer - Twelve Point Buck
• 1990: Poopshovel - I Came, I Saw, I Had A Hotdog
• 1992: L7
  L7 (band)
  L7 was an American rock band from Los Angeles, that was active from 1985 to 2000. Due to their sound and image, they are often associated with the grunge movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.-History:...
  
  - Bricks Are Heavy

External links

• Official Website Garbage