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paul boll

About Me

A musician who has worked or performed with an impressive and as diverse a group of artists as Chris Isaak, Robert Rodriguez, Brother Jack McDuff, The Gospel Hummingbirds and Shawn Colvin, I've been blessed with these opportunities all because I was naive enough from a young age to beleive I could make a living doing what I love. All this seems the more improbable considering the vocations of my parents and siblings - nurses, pilots, accountants, lawyers, engineers and stay-at-home moms! Man - what happened to me? I never really "decided" to be a musician, it's just what I've always done and what I always knew I wanted to do.
For a more complete bio and credits please go to - Credits / Bio .
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Here is the opening scene of the Robert Rodriguez film "Roadracers" for which I did the score along with Johnny Reno. We also did a few pile driving roadhouse rave ups like this song "My Mistake!" Our credits roll at the 3:45 mark.Also, that's me and Johnny aka "The Rumblers" in this scene with Salma Hayek and David Arquette. I'm the greaseball playing the Danelectro.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 22/06/2005
Band Members: Paul Boll / Paulo Bola / Pablo Bolla / And of course ... Two Box Solo
Influences: Beatles / Zeppelin / Cheap Trick / Devo / Jimmy Page / Billy Gibbons / Keith Richards / Scotty Moore / Cliff Gallup / T-Bone Walker / Elmore James / Gatemouth Brown / Jimmy Vaughn / Professor Longhair / Johnny Reno / Charlie Christian / Barney Kessel / Howard Roberts / Mickey Baker / Jack Peterson / Bill Ham & Tone Sommers (two local guitarists I grew up listening to) / the Herb Albert style / Charlie Parker / Miles Davis / Thelonius Monk / Charlie Mingus / Dave Brubeck / Stan Getz / Bach / Bartok / Samual Barber / Debussey / Leo Brower / Antonio Carlos Jobim / Esquivel! / Henry Mancini / Astor Piazzolla / Ennio Morricone / Elmer Bernstien / Merry Melodies Composers (there are four of them so look them up) / Los Panchos / Johnny Cash / Buck Owens / George Jones / Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West / James Brown / Sam Cooke / Marvin Gaye / Ray Charles / Beastie Boys / Fat Boy Slim / Air / St. Germain / Robin Zander / Robert Plant / Linda Rondstadt / Patsy Cline / Etta James / Sarah McLachlan / Robert Ealey /
Sounds Like: When I'm playin' the blues people tell me I sound like one of the old Fort Worth blues guys on Jacksboro Hwy in the '30's, '40's, and '50's and 60's. That really makes me happy! I'm certified as they say!

Playin' jazz I'm told I have a Mickey Baker / Charlie Christian / Howard Roberts thing goin' on. I like to play jazz with a rigorous hard bop style but interspersed with a little hillbilly humor like the western swing guys or Jimmy Bryant. I think of this style as "Desert Jazz" or "West Coast Cool".

But the funny thing is what I do best is sort of melodic pop guitar. It's that Beatles thing in me and this is by far what comes to me most naturally.

So that's me - a pop guitarist distilled through the rich history of Fort Worth blues and jazz and all the great guitarists I met and played with on the road with Johnny Reno's band. Oh, and my North Texas State experience? I tried to learn as much as I could there with out letting it screw me up.

Compositionally I'm all over the place. Depends on the project / film / band.
Record Label: Paean Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

On A Personal Note

I posted this on my Facebook page where I moved all my personal online goings on (as mentioned a few months ago.) I'm also posting this sad news here to explain my short absence from more postings of ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:15:00 GMT

It Seems Like Forever

I don't think I've written anything in a month and that's a long time for me. So, here is the news.- Been in my new place one month. It's a mix of the huge old house I had on Seventh which I loved and...
Posted by on Fri, 01 May 2009 19:12:00 GMT