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Paul

Marital Status/Family: It’s just the three of us: my wife, Mylo our dog, and me.


Favorite Memory (personal):
I have a few of them including a trip to Disney World with my wife, dinner at the Delavan Supper Club, finding out I was going to be a big brother, spending the weekend in NYC with my wife, wine tasting in Temecula Valley, family vacation to Denver, spending time with my Grandpa, swimming in the ocean with my wife, camping trips in the Dells.


Favorite Memory (band-related):
I have a couple of these, too.  First off would have to be playing Summerfest in 2007.  Next is Noise Pollution’s debut gig at Flashbacks in 2004


Best Days Ever:
1) October 24th, 1997--my wedding day.  2) July 6th 2007—the day Noise Pollution made our Summerfest debut…it was a dream-come-true, like 20 years in the making. 

Worst Day Ever: December 10th, 2005—the day my cousin Deanna was killed in a car accident.


Favorite TV Shows:
Friends, The Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Shield, Miami Ink, Behind the Music, Metal Mania on VH1 Classic, Rock of Love, That 70s Show. 

Least Favorite TV Shows: What Not to Wear, Yo! MTV Raps, sports other than the Olympics and Battle of the Network Stars, Scrubs, daytime soap operas, Martha Stewart Living.


Favorite Movies:
Forrest Gump, Airplane, It’s a Wonderful Life, A League of Their Own, Ray, Borat-Cultural Learings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the Star Wars movies, Indiana Jones trilogy, Air Force One, Mary Poppins, Rat Race


Favorite Bands:
Van Halen, Anthrax, Racer X, Extreme, AC/DC, Mr. Big, Motley Crue, Yngwie Malmsteen, The Beatles, and Problem Child. 

Favorite Song: “Eagles Fly” by Sammy Hagar.  


Least Favorite Bands:
Staind, Fantasia Barrino, Barbra Streisand, pretty much anything Hip-Hop or Rap. I don’t like Jimmy Buffett or reggae music.


Occupation:
My official title is “Music Scheduling Consultant”.  I work for a company called A-Ware Software, makers of MusicMaster Scheduling software.  We work with radio stations, webcasters, video channels, and satellite radio broadcasters internationally.  I’m a consultant and I do tech support for MusicMaster. 


Favorite/Least Favorite Song to Perform:
My favorite song on the setlist is “Lay It Down”.  I love the double-tapped kick drum that runs through it.  I also like doing “Bang Your Head”, “Crazy Train”, Bon Scott era AC/DC, and anything by Poison and Van Halen.  My least favorite, which we don’t play anymore, is “Never Say Goodbye”.


Things You Like
: I like 80s hair metal, guess it’s a good thing since I’m the singer in this band!  I don’t listen to a lot of radio, but when I do, it’s usually Sirius Satellite Radio.  I listen to Hair Nation, Buzzsaw, The Pulse, Big 80s, Octane, and Hard Attack…plus the Howard Stern channels.  I’ve grown to enjoy country music—mainly the new pop-country…groups like Sugarland and Rascal Flatts.  My wife and I tend to listen to New Country on Sirius.  I also like puppies, going out for dinner, spending a rainy day in bed, enjoying time with friends, performing in front of an audience—I’m kind of a ham.  I also love going to concerts and seeing bands play live—good bands that is.

Things You Dislike: I dislike hospitals, funerals, commercials about animal abuse and starving children.  Things I hate?  Pink Floyd.  Mayonnaise and lettuce—separate or together, makes no difference.  I’m not a fan of current or nu-metal, rap, opera, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Fantasia Barino, weird pizza toppings, fish, drunks who fall on our gear at shows, and lame concerts.

First Car: 1983 Chrysler E-Class.  That car even talked!  I remember being out on my first date with my wife and the damn car wouldn’t start.  I’d crank the ignition, but it wouldn’t turn over.  Then the car would say “your engine oil pressure is low, prompt service is required”.  And for no reason whatsoever, it would sometimes just beep and then say “thank you”.  We used to wonder what was going on under the hood, that car would thank us all the time!

Favorite Food/Beverage: I love food, that’s probably my biggest problem in life.  I love Pizza, Pasta, Hamburgers, Shrimp, Lobster, Crab, Steaks, Chicken, Turkey.  I went for years without eating brats or sausages, but lately I find myself craving a good bratwurst or Italian sausage.  My beverage of choice would be Crystal Light Iced Tea.  Food I won’t eat is anything that has mayonnaise in it.  I hate mayonnaise.  It’s the devil!  I also hate raw onions, lettuce, Brussels sprouts, and salads other than fruit or jell-o salads.  I’ve been known to chow down on an occasional PB&J, made with sugar-free jelly.


Quote/Motto: 
My favorite quote is “Salad, that’s what food eats”.  It’s not my personal motto, but I find this motto to be pretty damn funny, “Man should live like dog.  If you can’t eat it or hump it, piss on it”.  I don’t really have a motto, but I think Bill and Ted said it best, “Be excellent to each other”.


Funny Story:
Have you got about a day and a half—I’ve got a whole life’s worth of funny and embarrassing stories!  Some of my funny stories revolve around breaking things at my grandparents’ home and blaming my cousin Shane for it.  There’s a story about Dad yelling at us to not step in the lake as we were fishing from some rocks, and of course Dad’s the one who dunks his leg in the drink.  Or there’s the fireworks in the backyard stories, or slipping around on the side of the pool during swim lessons, or going to see the Muppet Movie when I was a kid and thinking my hair had fused to the seat when in reality the guy behind me had put his foot up on my chair, pinning my hair and my head to it.  I remember doing a live broadcast from an advertiser’s location, and my last talk break of the broadcast was leading into a song by Elton John called “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me”, but I misspoke and said “Don’t Let YOUR SON Go Down on Me”…that was pretty funny!  Or the time I fell off my chair at Pizza Hut and wiped out a whole other table and chairs in the process—I never saw my Grandpa laugh so hard!  Shall I go on?


Paul’s Blog:
http://howitshangin.blogspot.com