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Paul Nelson was influenced early on by such guitar players as Jeff Beck, Jimi
Hendrix, Michael Schenker and Billy Gibbons as well as fusion players Allan
Holdsworth, Larry Carlton, Tommy Bolin and blues great Albert King. An
exceptional guitarist, producer, arranger and songwriter, Paul is equally at home with
rock, funk, blues, jazz, and pop and just about anything else that crosses
his path! While attending Berklee College of Music, he became one of Steve Vai's
first guitar students soon after
he joined the band Liege Lord
who then signed with Metal Blade Records.
Paul co wrote and performed on the band's two
most popular classic power metal albums. These
releases were "Burn to My Touch"
produced by Joe Buchard of Blue
Oyster Cult and "Master Control"
produced by the great Terry Date,
known for his work with Nirvana, Sound
Garden, Def-Tones, Pantera. Also
released was Metal Blade's Vol. 3
compilation album distributed by Enigma /
Capitol. These releases led to Paul
being featured in magazines that "I could
only have dreamed of seeing myself in when I
first started out as an aspiring guitar
player." He has since appeared in literally
hundreds of magazines and on radio stations world
wide, some of the most notable being Billboard,
BBC, TCG, Circus, Guitar One, Kerrang, Rock Hard, Total Rock, About.com and Scream and fanzines, too many to count, along with appearing in 5 music documentary books.
Combined with constant touring and media exposure
Paul's guitar talents were gaining worldwide
attention and a growing legion of fans soon other
artists in the industry were placing Paul at the
top of their elite audition list including OZZY,
House of Lords, Anvil, Slaughter, Dio, Steel
Heart, Anthrax and most recently Glen
Hugh's Ten, Sozzi and even Hall
& Oats. Some of the more notable
recommendations for these auditions came from Mike
Varney / Shrapnel Records, Ronnie James Dio,
Chuck Wright and Metal Blade Records
themselves. Paul was then asked to write guitar
instructional columns for many nationally
syndicated magazines and penned endorsement deals
with Randall Amplifiers, ESP Guitars
and Dean Markley Strings. Ads
picturing Paul promoting these products were seen
in pages of Guitar World and Guitar
School Magazines this soon led to Paul
being included as a regular artist exhibitor at
the California Namm shows where
he performed clinics alongside George
Lynch, Bruce Kulick, Kenny Aaronsen and Arlen
Roth. Along with separate Eastern United
States clinics with Vivian Cambell
he appeared as guest speaker at the prestigious
CMJ convention in NY. Liege Lord parted ways in
the 90s, but for Paul this was just the
beginning...
He continued to be hired as a side man touring
and recording for many notable national acts even
joining the B-Stools on Rick
Rubin's Def Jam label for a
time. Shortly after Paul recorded on Fernando
Pereira's "Live From NY" CD
reaching certified gold in Portugal this then led
to touring in Southern Europe and Northern
Africa. Upon his return to the US Paul guest
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