High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Steven Gregory Drozd (born June 11, 1969, Houston, Texas) is an American musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist and lead guitarist for The Flaming Lips. The son of musician Vernon Drozd, he grew up in Houston with three brothers and a sister. From the age of ten, he played drums and later keys with his father's polka band. While attending Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Oklahoma, he played percussion in the school's marching and symphonic bands, and played keyboards in a jazz quartet he formed with fellow students Michael Brown (tenor and soprano saxophones), Robert Archer (bass guitar), and Todd Balcom (drums), performing smooth jazz and jazz-fusion. Besides his work with 'The Lips', he heads a side-project, The Paris Gun where he plays guitar and keyboards. He has also appeared on a number of recordings of other artists including Elliott Smith's From a Basement on the Hill, Jay Farrar's Sebastopol and ThirdShiftGrottoSlack and Steve Burns' Songs for Dustmites. Steven is also featured on the current 2007 online release of Cake's B-sides and Rarities.