Beth & Steve’s Mondays
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About the Show
If you know Beth and Steve Wood you know that you don’t know what to expect. They will be showing up every Monday at 11am on KX 104.7 with a good old fashioned variety show featuring segments like “So you thought no one is making good music anymore” (new discoveries that will change you mind), “Oh the Humanity” (news stories that will make you doubt the thin veneer of human civilization), “Stories behind the song”, “Joke of the week” (contest?), “What makes a hero?” and Lord knows what else.
They will also play some of their own music, discuss their history (that Steve finds infinitely fascinating) and will interview famous and not so famous people that have hidden or obvious super-powers. Can you see where this is heading? Neither can Beth and Steve.
About the Host
In 1970 Jackson Browne told Beth that he had gotten a gig at The Golden Bear in Huntington Beach and that she should try out at one of their Monday night open mic/audition nights. She showed up the following Monday and as fate would have it, Steve was there auditioning with his band Honk. Like a script, girl gets gig and finds her life partner all in one night. Beth soon joined Honk and with The Beach Boys Honk made the soundtrack for the Greg MacGillivray’s classic surf movie “Five Summer Stories”. The script continued when one of their songs from the film got to #1 on some radio stations, they get a record deal and go on the road with Loggins and Messina, Chicago and The Beach Boys and headlined some shows with bands like Van Halen and Aerosmith as the opening acts.
What looked like a straight road to happily ever after, suddenly curved unexpectedly when the band broke up. Beth and Steve decided to change directions and started a family, resulting with sons Nate and Jim. Steve went on the road with Kenny Loggins for 10 years as musical director, wrote music and recorded songs with him (including Footloose). Beth continued gigging at home and released several albums including two popular Children’s projects.
Steve went on to score 30 films for Greg MacGillivray and he became the most awarded IMAX documentary film composer, working with George Harrison, Sting (2 Oscar nominations), Crosby, Stills and Nash, Paul McCartney, Dave Matthews Band, Queen and many others. Beth assisted on many of the projects and towed the boat off the rocks when Steve ran aground. Steve’s 2023 solo album “Junk Drawer” was #1 on the Roots Music Report’s Folk Rock Album Chart for several months.
Beth and Steve have a very busy musician son, Nate Wood (check him out on YouTube) and also own a Martial Arts School in Irvine with their son Jim where they practice Korean Chung Do Kwon. They try to nap every day.