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Paul

You may have all your licks and chops down...but can your mother recognise you on the radio? - Les P

About Me


I'm just a dork who collects records and plays in a band.

You can also VISIT MY SOLO MUSIC PROFILE

Persephone's Bees - Climbing

My Interests


Music/Pop Culture geek

I'd like to meet:

Real, down-to-Earth people.

Or maybe these guys

Music:

The Who
The Kinks
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
Mark Eric (!!!!)
Laura Nyro
AC/DC (Bon Scott years)
The Monkees
Redd Kross
Evie Sands
The Zombies
The Moody Blues
Steely Dan
Donald Byrd
Dexter Gordon
Elton John
Catherine Howe
Stynx
Children of the Unicorn
The Association
Bee Gees
Neil Young
Carpenters
Al Kooper
Alice Cooper
KISS
Iggy/Stooges
Jefferson Airplane
Simon & Garfunkel
Dusty Springfield
Tom Jones
Mothers of Invention
Todd Rundgren
Carole King
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Motörhead
Satanicide!
Paul Williams & Roger Nichols
Earth, Wind & Fire
José Feliciano
Sammy Davis Jr
Wendy & Bonnie
The Impressions
Curtis Mayfield
The 5th Dimension
Lulu
The Byrds
The Turtles/Flo & Eddie
Love
Public Nuisance
Ramones
Cheap Trick
Judas Priest
Bill Withers
Josh Rouse
Fleetwood Mac (from Peter Green to Bob Welch to Lindsay Buckingham)
Hall & Oates
America
The Partridge Family
Chicago
Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66
Bread
Grand Funk
Twisted Fuckin' Sister (Yeah, that's right!)
Paul Revere & the Raiders
The Aerovons
Pink Floyd

Movies:

The Graduate
Over The Edge
Saturday Night Fever
Midnight Cowboy
Decline of Western Civilization Pt 2: The Metal Years
The Kids Are Alright
Corvette Summer
Mr T's Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool.

Television:

FREAKS & GEEKS (!!!!!!)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Bob Newhart Show
Taxi
Three's Company
Man About The House
Maude
The Odd Couple
Room 222
The Monkees
Partridge Family
Brady Bunch
Welcome Back Kotter
Undeclared
Cheers

Books:

The Giving Tree.

New York Changing -
Revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York

Currently reading: "Love, Janis" by Laura Joplin

Heroes:



The Legendary Deacon Dark!

...and of course, LISA SWAN !!

My Blog

Oy Vey!

So it is with a heavy heart that I depart from NYC today. Hopping on that L train one last time, bound for JFK. Sniff.People keep asking me when/if I'm moving. Well, not right now. I do still want...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:14:00 PST

Las Venus

Finally got a chance to spend some quality time hanging out with Kim this past Monday. She took me on a tour of her old Lower East Side haunts from back in the day. She now lives in Brooklyn but has...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:01:00 PST

Steppin' Out

This trip has been sort of a COTU (Children of the Unicorn) marathon. Last Monday we were treated to an unusual performance at the Upright Citizens Brigade, a comedy club on West 26th St, where they...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:54:00 PST

Lost In Love It To Death

Alice Cooper was a band before it was a guy. Unfortunately most people don't know this. All the most classic Alice tunes, School's Out, Eighteen, Billion Dollar Babies, No More Mr. NIce Guy (the li...
Posted by Paul on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:55:00 PST

Sky High

Finally decided to visit the Empire State building. Amazing view from the observation deck as I'm sure you can imagine. No stories today, no "I love New York" ramblings.Just pics.View of Empire State ...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:42:00 PST

Here we are in the years

In 1991, my then girlfriend Kim was accepted to Cooper Union, an art school in NYC. Before I knew it she was gone, off to this mythical city that I'd heard so much about, seen so much of in movies a...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:37:00 PST

What's Happ'nin'!

Sitting on the subway waiting to finally take off, a crew of four or five young black teenagers enter the train with a boom box and take their places in the middle of the car. Two of them fumble with...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:10:00 PST

Douchebaggery

Went with Phil yesterday to check out Roky Erickson who played a free show at Castle Clinton. Seems he's totally back in action after decades of being as dead to the world as Syd Barrett. Still boas...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:27:00 PST

Can you dig it? I knew that you could!

By now everyone knows I'm a dork, right? Fonzie on the outside, Ritchie Cunningham on the inside. Well, in case there were any doubts, this post should lay those quickly to rest. When I was a kid,...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:55:00 PST

How sweet it is

The past couple of days have been a blur of running around on my feet. Started the day off yesterday by meeting Phil at Beauty Rock studios where Children of the Unicorn have been recording their alb...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:49:00 PST