[9] The Boone family had previously lived on Long Island but moved away in 1952, after his younger brother, Charlie, was scalded and badly injured in an accident involving boiling water.

[9] His mother bought him a Gibson Acoustic Guitar as a teenager after he was involved in a serious car crash in 1960, when the driver rammed into an oak tree going 100 mph,[9] which left him severely injured, he stated: "I was in a very bad car crash on the last night of my junior year of high school in East Hampton.

My injuries were so severe that I was going to be laid up on a sofa for at least 18 months where I wouldn’t be able to do any of my normal activities, so my mom bought me a guitar.

[9] Boone helped the Hampton Chronicle, a precursor to The Southampton Press Western Edition, when his mother managed the newspaper.

[9] While he and his brother Skip were in the Air Force, they met Joe Butler (with whom Steve later performed with in the Lovin' Spoonful).

[10] In the Greenwich Village section of lower Manhattan during, John Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky formed the Lovin' Spoonful.

Once in New York, my brother Skip and band mate Joe Butler suggested I go and meet John Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky at a music club in Greenwich Village.

Yanovsky was deported back to Canada as he wasn't a U.S. citizen, and Boone spent a night in jail before Rich Chiaro, the band's road manager, bailed him out.

[14][15][16] In 1980, Boone, Sebastian, Yanovsky and Butler briefly reunited to appear in the Paul Simon starring-film One-Trick Pony.

[17] Jim Yester left in 1994, Jerry Yester was fired in 2017 following child pornography charges, and Joe Butler retired in 2023, so the current lineup only consists of Boone from the original personnel, who tours with Jeff Alan Ross, Bill Cinque, Rob Bonfiglio and Mike Auturi.

Steve wrote the book Hotter Than a Match Head: My Life on the Run with The Lovin’ Spoonful in 2014.

[3] He sold his boat and moved to Baltimore, Maryland and bought ITI, which he renamed to Blue Seas Studios.

[3] After the Lovin' Spoonful disbanded in 1969, Boone went to work producing an album for Mercury Records by the Oxpetals.

During his time living on the Virgin Island sailboat, Boone started secretly smuggling marijuana from the Caribbean to the United States, something he would later be arrested for.