MICK PAUL

Crossover Prog • United Kingdom

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Mick Paul biography
Mick Paul is an established bass player with a career going back to the 1970s who has played both session and live bass with many high-profile acts over the years. Although he originally trained as a classical guitarist, he switched over to bass at the age of fifteen.

His first professional band was 'The David Reece Band' alongside Mick Wayne from David Bowie's 1969 backing band 'Junior's Eyes', with whom he played several shows at the Marquee Club in London, along with some college dates. Next came the country rock band 'Coast Road Drive' with drummer Steve Chapman, who subsequently went on to join the band 'Poco'.

In 1973 Mick became part of 'The Hotshots', a ska band which had a hit single in the UK with a cover of Snoopy vs The Red Baron that year. He then joined 'Union Express', a UK pop band formed in 1970 by songwriter and producer Paul Curtis, with whom he did several European tours in the mid seventies. In 1978 Mick teamed up with Mick Wayne again for a long residency, during which time he also did BBC and studio sessions which led to him becoming an in-house bassist for a 16-track studio in London.

Mick then joined the band 'Killer Whales', who were produced by Mike Ratledge and Carl Jenkins from the band 'Soft Machine'. During this time he co-wrote a Labour Party campaign song for Neil Kinnock which was called 'Meet the Challenge, Make the Change', whilst also doing recording sessions for Yello Records, and contributing to a single by David Hasselhof for the Arista/BMG label.

Between 2008 and 2010 Mick played bass on a number of dance remixes of music by bands such as 'Little Boots', 'Aviv Geffen' and 'Snap', and he also took part in a European tour by Eric Martin, the vocalist and frontman of the hard rock band 'Mr Big'.

Although he had been writing his own material since around 1984 with some commercial success, it wasn't until he joined the David Cross Band in 1995 that he really found his feet as a writer - along with the realisation that his leanings lay further towards prog than the mainstream side of the music industry - since his first major influences were Yes, King Crimson, Frank Zappa and Chick Corea. During the recording of his first album with David, called 'Exiles', Mick worked alongside Robert Fripp, Peter Hammill, John Wetton and Pete Sinfield, which was a hugely influential experience for him.

Mick has worked with David Cross ever since as a member of several different line-ups, during ...read more

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