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Steve Longo has been playing the guitar for over 20 years, most of them playing Rush's music exclusively. 
His main influence, needless to say is Alex Lifeson and Steve is the biggest Rush fan around. 

His first Rush concert attended was in 1984 during the Grace Under Pressure Tour 
and his favorite songs to play are Limbo, Freewill, 2112, Jacob's Ladder, 
Double Agent, Natural Science and Xanadu. 

Equipment List - (Where's My Thing?)

GUITARS
Paul Reed Smith
Gibson
Fender
Ovation
AMPLIFICATION
Marshall
Traynor
MIDI
Roland
Novation
WIRELESS SYSTEM
Samson
TUNER
Korg
EFFECTS
Musitronics/Mu-Tron
BBE
Digitech
DOD
Rocktron
Dunlop
MXR
Rockman
Yamaha
Morley
ACCESSORIES
Floyd Rose
Seymour Duncan
SKB
Spectraflex

Steve has had the privilege of working with the following many fine musicians in the past:

Mike Watt, drummer with The Step Kings. Mike is the one on the left in this photo

You can hear some Step Kings tracks here. Steve and Mike met in highschool in the mid '80's and played in Albatross
 (Iron Maiden covers), Mercy Killer (original metal), and other hard rock & metal coverbands together.

Pete Tabbot, ex-guitarist for Vision

Steve and Pete were in a metal cover band together in college called Euthanasia 1986-1987.

 

Dan Fadel drummer for bands Scooby Groove, KOW (Florida area) 

Steve and Dan met in highschool and played in Navaria. 
(original progressive hard rock) and also Steve's first Rush cover band winning battle of the bands contests in both 1987 & 1988.

Bryan Beller, bass player for The Mike Keneally Band, Beer For Dolphins, and many others.

Steve and Bryan played and wrote together in Navaria.
Bryan also writes for Bass Player magazine.
He also has a great new solo album released. Visit Bryan's site for more.

Mike Weidmann, (drums/percussion) and Christine Berghorn, (bass/vocals/keys) 
rounded out Counterparts (another Rush tribute) 
with Steve on guitar from 1995-1996. 

Bassist/keyboardist Jim Noble played with Limbo for 2 years and is now
fills in for Vapor Trails on occasion

Drummer, Shawn Fogerty played with Limbo for about a year, (no photo).
  

Bassist/keyboardist Dave Larsen played with Limbo for 3 years.