Steve Isaacs
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Steve Isaacs is an artist, designer and musician living in Los Angeles, California. He is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the band The Panic Channel. Before The Panic Channel, he was The singer of Skycycle. Still Steve is most well known as a former MTV VJ.
A friend of Isaacs' sent his picture to the casting people for The Who's Tommy Broadway production, and he soon found himself giving his first acting audition playing Pinball Wizard for The Who's Pete Townshend. Against any and all rational probability, he won the title role of Tommy and spent the next year and a half touring the U.S. In that time he sang 500 shows in 32 cities, and wrote his own music late at night in hotel rooms.
He settled back in Los Angeles after touring Tommy to create the band Skycycle. Named for the rocket-powered vehicle Evel Knievel famously attempted to jump the Snake River Canyon with, Skycycle played the clubs for 2 years, then were signed to MCA Records. Steve thought people were joking when they called it "The Music Cemetery of America", but was mistaken. The band released an EP called Breathing Water (produced by Ken Andrews), but was dropped before the release of their completed full length CD, Ones and Zeros, which remains unreleased. One of the most popular Skycycle songs was Ramona the Palm Reader, a song from Steve's unrecorded Rock Opera Strawberry - written while on tour in Tommy.
Steve then went on to utilise his skills as a web designer to produce lots of movies and band websites for a living.
Whilst earning a living through web design, he often played solo material at various clubs in L.A. for enjoyment, more than anything else. It was at one of these acoustic shows that a common friend of he and Dave Navarro's was in attendance. She brought Steve's music to Dave, Stephen Perkins and Chris Chaney's attention, the three most recently serving as the muscle behind Jane's Addiction, who had been searching for new musical possibilities. Steve never imagined those early jam sessions would become an entirely new band, he was just pleased to have the opportunity to play with some of his musical heroes.
The Panic Channel is Steve Issac's only commercially available music to date. Their next album is due sometime in 2008 exclusively to iTunes.
