Chris Paulson was born in 1958 in Oakland, California, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. A child of the sixties, he started playing music in garage bands before he was ten years old. He traded a broken 22 caliber rifle someone had given him for his first guitar and amplifier. While still in school he began racing motorcycles on the highly competitive Northern California dirt track circuit. In his teens and early twenties he held many different jobs, including grocery clerk, motorcycle shop parts manager, grave digger, tree cutter, house painter, dish washer, bus boy, cook, …
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