We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Steven Sherer a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Steven , thanks for joining us today. Do you wish you had started sooner?

Yes! I wished I started sooner! I always knew I wanted to do music. It’s the one thing that makes me feel so free! Creating music and performing gives me such a rush!

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I got into music when I was kid listening to a bunch of punk rock albums in my room. I was going through a difficult time with family my life and the only way that I could cope was listening to those albums. When I entered high school, I tried out for band as a saxophone player and until then, music was a constant in my life.
When I wanted to be a rock band, I saw my friends band Bronze Application play a talent show and when they played their original songs everyone around went wild!

I wanted to play so badly I recruited my best friends to play but over time they stopped because they didn’t want to. So overtime the dream was just a dream until college.

After a terrible toxic relationship ended, and a need to vent all that negative energy, I went to Craigslist to join a band. Within a day I was recruited into a band named Fake Chemistry where I met my future guitarist Trever. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but the universe was preparing me for something.

After a few months the band broke up due to creative differences and I decided to join other bands but to no avail, I was kicked out since I wanted the band to be successful and not be a hobby. It was until I had decided to finally start my own band called Eye Expected with a drummer and their wife as a band manager alongside Trever.

While this was happening, Tyler was shopping at Walmart, and when he was in the check out line, he did some drum tapping that impressed the band manager that made her ask him “Are you a musician?”
That’s how the universe decided to lead me to our vocalist: Tyler!

Through a few months of practice and shows, the band needed to look for another guitarist, Tyler at that time decided to be part of a rock opera. After weeks and weeks of practice, I attended the performance. At that time, David was performing as part of the pit crew. I had a literal gut instinct that we had finally met our future guitarist David!

Overtime, the drummer and manager decided to leave due to creative differences. At that time we had opened up for Puddle of Mudd, La Guns and Quiet Riot to name a few. We had been trying out different drummers but didn’t find one that wanted to stay.

Through another connection of Tyler’s, Tony decided to play with us and ever since then, the chemistry of the band has just been awesome as if the universe finally got us altogether.

I wasn’t big in the idea of fate but with Toxic Nobility, I feel we are. The way everyone compliments each other is just something I don’t experience everyday. We are very different than other bands in Dayton, OH because most of our songs are dynamic with a lot of high and different energy. We just get on stage and give everything we have. Fans of ours say that our shows are energetic. They come and sing their favorite songs by us such as It’s Not Over and DWMO and they love the way we play covers differently than other local bands.

We are proud that our little Noble Nation is growing bigger everyday. We want future nobles to know that after shows, we hang out and get to know them, I love to have conversations about different life stories. The different stories I hear make this journey so much better.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Go to local shows! There is a SEA of awesome music that doesn’t get heard! Yes, the bigger artists agave better production and they are familiar but local and underground acts have better music. When I get time to see a local act, I remember them more often since after their set, I can go up to them and just talk with them. That’s something you can’t do with national acts. They don’t really hear the stories and inspirations behind every song and the motive to play.

Alright – so here’s a fun one. What do you think about NFTs?

Never understood them! Why are they a thing?

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