THE man on the left in our main picture is guitar legend and Toto member Steve Lukather.

The man on the right is a Swindonian mentioned in Rewind last month, and who sent us the photograph.

Their meeting was arranged by guitar manufacturer Ernie Ball Music Man.

In a centre spread of stories from April of 1973, we mentioned a band called Green Steam, which was the most popular local rock act of the time.

We noted that we were unable to find further mention of Green Steam in our archives, although member John Krelle was mentioned in a piece in 1975, when he was about to release a single called Jig-A-Jig Jig.

By that time he was described as a former British Leyland worker who lived in Stratton St Margaret.

The trail then went cold – until the man himself got in touch from his home in San Luis Obispo, California.

He said: “After Green Steam broke up, I was working with a local song writer, Brian Mallon, who later had a TV show under the name of Gordon Bennett, who wrote the Jig-A-Jig song.

“We did promo appearances around the country and were on stand-by for a Top of the Pops show which failed to materialize.

“After that it all fell apart and I went to work for a company in Stroud. While there, I met some local musicians and formed Elastic Band, a cover band playing the local pubs and clubs.

“The bass player, Clive Devine, played in a popular Sixties band from Cheltenham called the Talismen.”

The two still work together on songs and are hoping to release some soon.

John’s relocation to the US came courtesy of medical device company called Zimmer, now known as Zimmer Biomet.

Having been managing director of their Swindon-based UK operation, he moved to the Mid-West in 1996 as head of the global marketing division, spent two years living in Tokyo as head of the Asia division and was a member of the management team that rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange when the company went public in August of 2001.

Since 2005, he has been President and CEO of a medical device firm called FzioMed Inc.

John turned 65 in January and has been married to Heather for almost 30 years. The couple have two daughters, Lynsey and Greer, one a teacher and the other a nurse.

John is still in touch with John Hennessey, the original Green Steam bass player, and keyboard player Kay Guest, who now lives in Ireland.

He added: “Like many people of my age, I remember going to concerts at the Locarno Ballroom where I first saw the Small Faces, and playing at the club at Mc Ilroys in town, both long gone probably.

“I believe Swindon Technical College is gone, as well as Park Grammar School, where I got a great education.”