Steve Lance

Born to Russian nobility in the old country, Steve's grandparents barely escaped the Bolsheviks in the 1917 Russian revolution that led to the rise of the Soviet Union. His mother was born on a steamer merely eight nautical miles out from Vladivostok - the budding young family of the Marquis deYerevan arrived in San Francisco hungry, dirty, tired, and in patched and tattered clothes for the first time in their lives. The Marquis had fifty thousand dollars in jewelry, at that time a decent fortune, stashed away in their steamer trunks, and clean, fashionable clothes as well, but being a cautious man, he had kept this a secret, and prevailed upon his wife to endure the privations of the life of a lowly steerage passenger with him to safeguard their future in America.

Steve's father was in the Engineering College at Purdue when he met the lovely young Ekaterina Yerevan, a student in the more prosaic Humanities program. They were married within the year, and soon after began the the regular appearance of Steve's siblings. Steve grew to his teen years in a familial setting consisting of three brothers and four sisters - they began to leave the nest when he was thirteen years old. When Steve was fourteen Stan, his oldest brother, returned from college for Christmas vacation, bringing for Steve a small guitar that was to launch Steve on the trajectory that has led him to this zenith, the frontman for No Bones About It.