Steve Jocz

Stephen Martin Jocz was born on July 23, 1981, and is of Polish descent. Although his real name is Stephen, most known him as Stevo 32 or just Stevo. He is best known as a musician for the drummer of Canadian rock band Sum 41. He was born in Ajax, Ontario, to Marg and Phil Jocz, and has an older sister named Jenn. Around 1993 he met future Sum 41 frontman, Deryck Whibley. They became the first two members of the band, which formed out of two rival bands at their local highschool. His band got their name from the date they were formed which was on July 31, 1996 (41 days into the SUMmer). Jocz is the youngest in the band. For drums, he uses Drum Workshop and for sticks, he uses Vic Firth For Cymbals he uses Zildjian Cymbals and for drum heads, he uses Remo. He also plays on Orange County Drums and Percussion Custom Drum Sets. Jocz is vocalist Pain in Sum 41's alter-ego band Pain for Pleasure. He has also appeared on MTV Cribs.

At Sum 41, he is known for his outspoken personality and toilet humour in interviews. He is one of the less quiet members of the band and is often considered the frontman of the band because of his outgoing personality and the fact he often takes over interviews. He is also a controversial person, as one of the leaders of Punk Voter and one of the best known artists against George W. Bush, he often includes political messages in his interviews.

Other Appearances/Hobbies

Aside from drums, Stevo plays the piano. He also does lead vocals for the alter-ego band Pain For Pleasure and half of the vocals for the more hip-hop oriented songs by Sum 41. He is featured on drums in his band-mate Cone McCaslin's side project, The Operation M.D..

More recently he started a music director career. He directed a music video for the band The Midway State called "Change For You" and for The Operation M.D., for their single "Sayonara".

He has made several animated video such as, "The Baby", and has acted as the main character in many Sum 41 short films such as "1-800-JUSTICE", "Public Service Annoncements", "The Stache" and "Basketball butcher". He also was featured in the movie "Dirty Love" as himself for about 7 minutes. He is very comfortable in front of the camera. All of these videos can be found on Youtube.

Tattoos

• 41 on the back of his right arm
• An airplane dropping bombs across his entire back
• His complete upper left shoulder and bicep is completely covered with no skin showing

School & Youth

According to most data he finished high school along with Cone and Deryck. Dave however didn't graduate. They all attended school in Ajax, Ontario, Canada In high school Steve was on the dive team and portrayed his skills in the music video for "In Too Deep".

While still a youth (around 18-19) he and the other members of the band would play many pranks (ie. robbing a pizza store with water guns). He continues to have the same prankster aspect to him and in an MTV interview with Dave he described recent pranks such as filling condoms with rotten milk and throwing them at near by sun-bathers.

Discography

Album Cover	Date of Release	Title	Label	Billboard Top 200	UK Peak	Canada Peak
	June 27, 2000	Half Hour of Power	Big Rig Records	#176	#143	Not Charted
	May 8, 2001	All Killer No Filler	Island Records	#13	#7	#1
	November 26, 2002	Does This Look Infected?	Island Records	#32	#34	#1
	October 12, 2004	Chuck	Island Records	#10	#59	#1
File:Sumgcy.JPG	2005 (Japan), 2006 (Canada)	Go Chuck Yourself / Happy Live Surprise	Aquarius / Universal	-	-	-
	July 24, 2007	Underclass Hero	Island Records	TBD	TBD	TBD

Videos

As a director, Stevo has created the following music videos:

• Change For You (2006) - The Midway State
• Sayonara (2007) - The Operation M.D.
• Underclass Hero (2007) - Sum 41

Facts

• He is Pain in the Sum 41 alter-ego band "Pain for Pleasure" and it was his idea for the whole thing
• He has known Deryck Whibley since high school
• He is the most out-going member of Sum 41
• He highly resembles Steve-O of Jackass fame.
• At the Q&A section at Sum 41.com he is know to answer questions with a comedic answer, usually not true
• He has had much web presence at Sum 41.com and has been putting out many updates in the journal section
• His mothers name is Marg and his fathers name is Phil and he featured on cribs at his parents house in Ajax canada during the All Killer No Filler stage of the band.
• He is the youngest member of Sum 41
• He recorded Drums for many of "The Operation's" songs and is know as Dr. Dinero (Spanish for Money)
• He is a vegan
• His favorite song off of Sum 41's "Does This Look Infected" is "No Brains" and his least favorite from that album is "Thanks For Nothing", which is ironically the one song off that album that he sings on.
• He recorded drums for some of Avril Lavigne's album "The best damn thing".

See also

• List of drummers
• List of vegans

External Links

• Sum 41 Official Site
• Zidjian Artist Profile
• Stevo on video "Change For You" (only available in Canada)

[[ He has stated that his favorite song's by him are: In Too Deep ,Machine Gun and March of the Dogs