Steve Marker (born March 16, 1959) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a cofounder and guitarist in the alternative rock band Garbage.\n', '

Steven W. Marker was born in Mamaroneck, New York on March 16, 1959.[citation needed] He spent most of his childhood and his teens in Mamaroneck, New York.[citation needed] At the age of 6, his parents bought him drums; but, at 12, he shifted instruments and took up the guitar.[citation needed] He graduated from Rye Neck High School in Mamaroneck.[citation needed]\n', '

For higher education, Marker attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison for a degree in film. There, he met Butch Vig, who played with the band Spooner. In 1979 the group was trying to figure out how to record a 7-inch single and Marker had grown an interest in musical producing, he bought a four-track reel-to-reel deck, which complemented by Vig\'s microphones became a home studio in Marker\'s basement. Marker and Vig also started a small label, Boat Records, to release records of both Spooner and other bands they liked.\n', '

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