Steve Isaacs and I go back years. We were flash/design buddies at a little web/graphic design shop in LA. Steve is the man. Funny, witty, charming and freaking smart. Although he was always good at the flash crap, his real talents were with music. I think he was slumming it with us in the web design trade as he took a couple years break from being batted around the hollywood music industry a few too many times.
Steve was always a rock star. Not only is he a good musician, performing is in his blood.
After we closed down the shop, he went on to a few other shops around town and I always kept track of his pursuits through his blog. Somewhere along the way he started to write about this new band he’d joined with Dave Navarro, Stephan Perkins and Chris Chaney. They called it The Panic Channel. Good freakin’ name!
His posts were full of flavor at first and then took a cryptic turn. And for a year or two now, I’ve waited to see what Steve has come up with. Instead of rushing an album, they decided to brew and develop their own sound. Creating something wholly and entirely new. Well, I was checking my email and what do I see, but an Apple iTunes email newsletter with Panic Channel’s new album, ONe. After listening to the tracks, it seems that they have become a pretty freaking good band. Leaving old ideas behind and Steve is doing exactly what he was born to do: fronting a very capable, very hard rock band.
It’s great seeing an old friend really do what it is he was meant to do. Go Steve!
