Steve Soto

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Steve Soto (b. August 23rd, 1963) is an American musician. He was once part of California punk band Agent Orange, and joined The Adolescents in 1980.

When The Adolescents broke up, Soto, together with Frank Agnew, joined the Los Angeles based band Legal Weapon.

In 1986 The Adolescents reunited. In 1988 Soto was the main vocalist in the band. In 1989 The Adolescents broke up.

Soto then went on to form the band Joyride with former Adolescent Drummer Sandy Hanson they released two Albums "Johnny Bravo " and Another Month of Mondays both on Dr. Dream records While in Joyride he also started Manic Hispanic with Mike "Gabby" Gaborno and other members of the Cadillac Tramps and the Grabbers. Manic is still going strong today. They have four records on BYO Records ,"the Menudo Incident "(1994)The Recline of Mexican Civilization (1998) Mijo goes to Jr. College (2002) Grupo Sexo(2005) In 1996 he started the group 22 Jacks with Joe Sib from the group Wax they toured extensively and released three records "Uncle Bob"(1997) "Overserved" (1999) "Going North" (2001) on the SideOneDummy label. In 2001 Soto joined Punk Rock Karaoke with Eric Melvin (NOFX) Greg Hetson (Bad Religion/Circle Jerks) and Derric Obrien (Social Distortion,DI, Agent Orange . Adolescents) they play "punk classics" live letting members of the audience sing The Adolescents regrouped in 2001 and have been touring ever since. They released OC Confidential in the Summer of 2005