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Steve Gaines's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs
The Master Builder
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Steven Earl Gaines (September 14, 1949 – October 20, 1977) was an American musician. The birth-card coordinate for September 14 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2006 Performers — inducted member of Lynyrd Skynyrd
The 10 of Clubs coordinate
Steve Gaines's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Steve Gaines. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.
Steve Gaines in the public record
He is best known as a guitarist and backing vocalist with rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1976 until his death in the October 1977 airplane crash that claimed other band members and crew. His older sister Cassie Gaines, a backup vocalist with the band, also died in the crash. Gaines was born and raised in Miami, Oklahoma. When he was 15 years old, he saw the Beatles performing live in Kansas City. After being driven home from the concert, he pestered his father to buy him his first guitar. His band, Manalive, recorded at the Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. In the 1970s, Steve played with bands ILMO Smokehouse from Quincy, Illinois, Detroit with Rusty Day (an offshoot of The Detroit Wheels) and Crawdad (a band that Steve had started around 1974). In 1975, he recorded several songs with Crawdad at Capricorn studios in Macon, Georgia which were released by MCA in 1988 as One in the Sun (when Lynyrd Skynyrd band began touring).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Steve Gaines (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Steve Gaines's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 10♣ — Birth Card: The Master Builder
- 4♠ — Karma — Environment: The Rigid Truth
- J♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Messenger of Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- A♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 10♣, 4♠, J♠, 8♦, 7♣, Q♠, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 10♠, 5♣, 3♦, A♠, 7♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- This album is listed as his only official solo album.
- Steve has two other albums, which are rare CDs from Steve's widow Teresa: I Know a Little (a collection of live recordings with Crawdad as well as Manalive) and Okie Special (a collection of live recordings with Crawdad as well as Detroit).
- Only 100 copies of each of the two CDs have been made.
- In December 1975, Steve's older sister, Cassie, became a member of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's female backup singers, The Honkettes.
Other inductees with this card
- Billy Guy — 1987 Performers with The Coasters
- Bobby Elliott — 2010 Performers with The Hollies
- Brian Jones — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
- Brian Wilson — 1988 Performers with The Beach Boys
- Calvin Simon — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
- Danny Cedrone — 2012 Performers with The Comets
- Diana Ross — 1988 Performers with The Supremes
- Dion — 1989 Performers
- Doug Clifford — 1993 Performers with Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Ed King — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Glen Buxton — 2011 Performers with Alice Cooper
- Gregg Allman — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
- 22 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Steve Gaines's birth card?
- The 10 of Clubs. September 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Steve Gaines's dates come from?
- Birth date 1949-09-14 is the day-precision date on Steve Gaines's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Steve Gaines) + Wikidata CC0 (Q939194). Birth date 1949-09-14 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).