Steve Whipple (Bass). Steve Shinji Whipple was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, and attended the famous Interlochen High School in Michigan. But after “Interlochen-himself” out of his apartment, he found a discarded pink gorilla costume and founded The Xylopholks, a ragtime xylophone and bass duo, famous for terrorizing lost tourists on subway platforms. Steve is a member of Postmodern Jukebox, but dreams of starting “Premodern Jukebox,” a group of Renaissance enthusiasts who perform pop songs on period instruments. Michael Bloomberg once told him, “You look ridiculous,” to which Steve replied, “Takes one to know one!” Well played, Pinky the Gorilla.