& play harmonica, he said yeah buddy.. So we found a distorted amp & an old mic that people used for recording
harmonica & he played his but off, I thought it was great. He did a really good job. I have a feeling he sang some
of the backgrounds in the song “Under The Gun” too. I don't know, but that's kinda the story between those two
tunes.
Alexxis: Ok, very cool, that’s a good collaboration of musicians for that you know.
Paul: Yeah yeah, I mean it's always great to work with other musicians, Matt Fernett is playing on that, Spider is
playing on one song, Bryan McCloud is playing drums on all other songs & I’m playing bass on a couple tunes, I
think I'm playing bass on most of the songs actually now that I think about it. It's been awhile but you're proba-
bly wondering why we're even talking about this album, but I've been working on some new stuff. I'm thinking I
would really like to put this new album im working on, on Spotify. I don't know, I don't even know if Hardcore is
on there & sure enough it wasn't on there, it wasn't on Apple music or Google play, so I phoned up my manager
& said I don't think people can stream this tune, you can download it but can't stream it. Why don't we see if
Columbia would be cool with doing that, actually they're Sony now, they said absolutely, so two weeks later it was
up & streaming, then they took it a step further & found the two videos I did. They found “Sword & Stone” &
“Draw The Line”, I guess they were on the old betamax tapes you know, that we used back in the 80s, so they're
going to record them to digital & put them on video or something you know. So, I wasn't expecting that.. So it's
really cool.
Alexxis: Ok, so you mentioned the Beatles before, a lot of musicians were influenced by the Beatles, were you?
Paul: Unbelievably so. My favorite thing about the Beatles is their white album. It's like there’s 30 songs on there
& every song is different, so many formats(if you call it a format). So many styles of songs it's just unbelievable.
They started out, I mean we're pretty much the same age maybe a little older, but I remember when they come
out with “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, I couldn't believe the rhythm part on that it was just a great Rock and feel
that over and over again. I used to sing when I saw her standing there in a recorder at school and people would
say hey man you got that going pretty good (chuckles). This is my favorite Beatles story though I was I used to
play disc jockey for dances we used to call and saw cops talk about dated but anyway that's what we called it back
in the 60s. So I'm running the machine with the two speakers out and it's after lunch and all the kids started
coming into the gym guy standing on one side girls on the other. The guys get up his nerve and walk over just
like out of the movie, just like you wouldn't imagine it. I was playing Beach Boys and who knew who knows what
else. I put on a Beatles and all the girls in the gym scream I'm not kidding you is like you could feel the tension
and the fever building up and then they would do this big note and yeah yeah yeah and the chicks would just
scream, I couldn't believe it.
Alexxis: They went wild…
Paul: Yeah it's like the Beatles were there and they're screaming to a freaking record. In unison like there's 50
girls screaming I went this is so unbelievable I just couldn't believe that sadly I never got to see them, they got to
play in Vancouver at least once but I didn't have the cash. I lived 500 to 600 miles from there so I just couldn't get
in there to see them a little sad. I never saw the Beatles ,Zeppelin and I never saw Elvis, I couldn't have cuz they
played Vancouver but I just couldn't get it together to see any of them.
Alexxis: That's too bad.
Paul: Not that bad. I'm not complaining, I did get to see the Rolling Stones a bunch of times and pretty much
everyone else.
Alexxis: okay, very cool. So getting back to more current times, I guess it was 2014 is when you put out ‘Unfin-
ished Business’, and I know the story behind that from when I was talking to Mike Reno last time. I didn't know
it was your idea about the Facebook contest, to where the fans got to choose the title of the CD.
Paul: That's right, I figured why not. I mean it's not like we couldn't have come up with something, I just figured
it's kind of like a fun thing to do. We had a video making contest as well, for one of the crazy names and Unfin-
ished Business came up and we went on before and explained what it was all about, we've got a bunch of songs
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