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Paul Myers

About Me

In 2008 Myers got together with John Moremen, to form THE PAUL AND JOHN and recording is under way in the Bay Area for their tuneful collaboration.Previous bio information...Paul Myers was born in Toronto, where his band THE GRAVELBERRYS made a bit of noise in the mid-90's. He moved to San Francisco in '97, continued to keep his hand in music while simultaneously developing as a journalist and author. In the Fall of 2007, Myers launched www.pulmyears.com. Pulmyears is an anagram of the name "paul myers".**NEW!! SPRING 2008, The Pulmyears Music Blog went live: http://pulmyears.wordpress.com/Apocryphally, Paul was a founder member of the world's least successful Beatles cover band, "1972" who dramatically recreate the Beatles during the time they were suing each other and not speaking. (Paul played dual roles of George Harrison and legal counsel David Jacobs)As for ACTUAL accomplishments, Paul was asked to write the authorized biography of his pals, Barenaked Ladies which was published in two countries under the title: BARENAKED LADIES: PUBLIC STUNTS PRIVATE STORIES. In 2001 Myers went on six month journey through Asia and India, before relocating to Vancouver, BC where he continued to play sporadically while flourishing as a writer and broadcaster.Myers returned the Bay area in 2006, this time to the East Bay where he lives with his wife Liza and their cat, "Buddy Guy." Besides his work with GRAVELBERRYS, Myers has been recording for the last few years under the band name, FLAM! which is the moniker for his original electronic and instrumental compositions. (Drummers may know this, a Flam is the sound of one hit followed rapidly by another). Paul Myers's biography of seminal English bluesman Long John Baldry, IT AIN'T EASY: LONG JOHN BALDRY and the BIRTH of the BRITISH BLUES, was published in Fall 2007 by Greystone Books and is distributed in the USA by PGW. Currently researching and writing TODD RUNDGREN: SOUNDS OF THE STUDIO for 2010 release. Go to www.pulmyears.com for more information about Paul Myers and check out the PULMYEARS music blog http://pulmyears.wordpress.com/

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Member Since: 06/12/2005
Band Website: http://pulmyears.wordpress.com
Band Members: THE PAUL AND JOHN: Paul Myers: guitars vocals bass, lyrics. John Moremen:guitars, vocals, drums.FLAM!: Paul Myers with soft synths and loops.THE GRAVELBERRYS: Paul Myers with various band members 1989-1994.DEAD LAZY: Paul Myers (true to the name, there has been no recording or live appearances of the Dead Lazy.)
Influences: XTC, 10cc, Elvis Costello, Marshall McLuhan, Malcolm McLaren, Todd Rundgren, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Marr, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Beastie Boys, Kurt Vonnegut, Fred Flintstone, The Byrds, Derek Taylor, Dick Cavett, the Mike Douglas Show, Sly Stone, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Charlie Rose, Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and my brothers.
Sounds Like: THE PAUL AND JOHN, with John Moremen, sound like both of us. And we're playing a few songs August 16th at the ROCKIT ROOM, for IPO San Francisco. Check their website we're on early, like 7:30 pm early.
Record Label: Who needs 'em?

My Blog

NEW BAND THING: THE PAUL AND JOHN, LIVE SHOW ADDED

I recently joined forces with my friend John Moremen (formerly of the Neighbors)in a new project that we have called THE PAUL AND JOHN.We have co-written a bunch of songs that sound just like both of ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:50:00 GMT

I’ve moved BLOGS! See me at http://pulmyears.wordpress.com/

As the title suggests, I was finding it inconvenient to blog here at Myspace so I set up a whole new bloggin' place over at http://pulmyears.wordpress.com/. I want it to be your first choice for "mus...
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 00:26:00 GMT

Theyre here! The first new FLAM! trax of 2008!

I finally got a second to post a couple of new FLAM! tracks, and they're both very upbeat non-verbal danceable tracks. IN MY DREAMS I'M TALLER is also known around here as THE HAUNTING THEME FROM PAUL...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:47:00 GMT

TWO new FLAM! tracks, BUKOWSKIs BACK ...ALRIGHT!

Hey Flam! Fans (both of you)I just put up not one but TWO new Flam! tracks. The first one is called "A Stringy Thing" because it has a string quartet (sample) as its basis. Of course I couldn't leave ...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:15:00 GMT

Love is the middle word in Clover: Elvis Costellos Aim is truer than ever...

ELVIS COSTELLO, CLOVER at GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, SAN FRANCISCOLast night, I witnessed an historic event, the reunion of Elvis Costello (my songwriting hero) with the Marin county band Clover, who ...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:19:00 GMT

IT AIN’T EASY now in stores in TWO COUNTRIES! San Francisco Booksmith LIVE event!!

Hey there, allow me to plug my new book AGAIN!It's just that October 19th was the official U.S. release date of It Ain't Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues. I'll be doing a boo...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:39:00 GMT

PULMYEARS.COM is here!

I finally got the official pulmyears site up, www.pulmyears.com is my new official web presence. So far I've only got a couple of pages and the information about FLAM! and my new book IT AIN'T EASY. I...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:39:00 GMT

The PULMYEARS web site is COMING SOON!

Friends,I have finally begun to design and edit my first ever personal site. Part of the problem has been that I always considered myself too tech-challenged to do it myself. I now think that was sill...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:14:00 GMT

HOW TO ORDER "IT AIN'T EASY" ONLINE IN U.S.A and CANADA!

Many of my friends in Canada and the U.S.A. have been curious about just HOW to order my new book, It Ain't Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues. Hopefully these links will work f...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:25:00 GMT