"Funky Paul" Olsen (drums)

In late 1969 Paul sold his successful and famous psychedelic poster company, FUNKY FEATURES in the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco and moved to London, playing with many UK bands and power trios including Snake Eyes, Alan Bown, Atlas, Sidewinder, Third World War, the Flirtations, Zeus, and Graham Bond until his death; plus sharing the stage with musicians like Jimmy McCulloch, Jimmy Cliff, Gary Moore, Eric Clapton, Gary Brooker, and Paul Rogers. Paul played with many pick-up blues bands of the period and also with the soul band Chairmen of the Board for their UK tours who wanted him to move to Detroit to shake things up back there. Paul has designed 7 of Robin Trower's album covers, including Robin's classic Bridge of Sighs album.

He moved to LA in 1975 and got involved in the film business by being hired to airbrush all the surface detail in pearlescent colours on the Starship Enterprise for the first Star Trek movie; then designed effects for that movie, Bladerunner, 2010, Close Encounters, and Brainstorm. He began designing main titles, among them The Abyss and Terminator 2 for James Cameron. Paul moved back to the UK in 1991 to be close to his baby son who lived here, and placed an ad in the MM which Saiichi spotted. Paul joined Bluewater in 1992 and played off and on with Saiichi and friends for the next 7 years until he moved back to California in 1999. He now lives in LA and has just published The Book of Love and is writing screenplays and children's books, as well as putting together "The Sunset Strippers" rock n' roll showband. Badda-boom.

Oh...and this website, as well.

at The Cartoon in Croydon with Bluewater

to Paul's website