Paul Cowen

Paul Cowen (born 1963) was the guitarist for the New Jersey based early 80s punk band Public Disturbance.In the late 1980's, Paul was working for the Ocean County Engineering crew as a surveyor's assistant with another guitarist/songwriter, Greg Hohnholt, whom he had met at the Brighton Bar reading EC horror comic reprints. Hohnholt was playing with Craig Surgent, former bassist for Autistic Behavior, in a band called Lapjaw, while also playing in another Long Branch area band called The Underachievers. Cowen and Hohnholt collaborated on several four track songs from 1987-1989 which were never released, and also made some amateur music videos for three of the songs "Mr. Irresponsibility," "Love Tunnel," and "Ride the Assembly Line". Hohnholt moved to Olympia, WA in August of 1991 to attend The Evergreen State College, while Cowen got married and eventually became interested in writing a screenplay with the assistance of F. Paul Wilson, the science fiction writer in the mid-1990's.