Stephen Zepeda

Stephen Zepeda (a.k.a. Steve Zepeda) is a night club promoter and alternative music entrepreneur, born April 11, 1955, Long Beach, California. He previously promoted music shows at the Nugget student bar at Calif. State University Long Beach (1978–1979), Bogart's Night Club (1988–1993), and the Foothill Club (1994–1998), all in the Long Beach, California area. More recently, he worked at Safari Sam's in Hollywood, California (2005–2006). The Foothill Club in Signal Hill, California, now demolished, was one of the last remaining honky tonks in Los Angeles County from the 1950s.

Zepeda booked many cutting edge new wave, punk, and roots rock acts: The Plimsouls, Go Go's, The Blasters, The Alleycats, X, The Know (Gary Valentine), Suburban Lawns, Nirvana, Sublime, Cadillac Tramps, Rocket From the Crypt, Rev. Horton Heat, T.S.O.L., Southern Culture on the Skids, Pavement, Geraldine Fibbers, Wanda Jackson, Link Wray, The White Stripes, Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys, Jonathan Richman, Dave Alvin, and many others.

Stephen Zepeda also ran an independent record label, Beat Records from 1978-1980. Beat Records had record releases by Gary Valentine (of Blondie), The Furys, and The Plimsouls (featuring Peter Case).

References

• Bohem, Mike, Los Angeles Times, December 2, 1993
• Cuda, Sigmund, Heidi, Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1994
• Siegel, Buddy, Orange County Weekly, January 14, 1999
• Valentine, Gary, New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie, Iggy Pop, and others, page 192, Oct. 18, 2006
• Snowden, Don/ Leonard, Gary, Make the music go bang!: the early L.A. punk scene, page 37, Nov. 15, 1997