PAUL CROOK

Paul Crook is an American songwriter/musician/producer who first rose to prominence as lead guitarist of thrash metal pioneers Anthrax in the mid-1990s, when he performed on and toured in support of the group's albums Stomp 442 and Volume 8: The Threat Is Real, the latter of which he also co-produced.
In 1999, Crook began a five-year stint as lead guitarist for former Skid Row front man, Sebastian Bach.
In 2004, Crook was personally chosen and trained by Queen guitarist Brian May to handle his guitar parts for their musical production of We Will Rock You, which performed for 18 months on the Las Vegas strip at the Paris Casino Hotel.
For the last 20 yrs, while collaborating with artists ranging from RRHOF, Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) to Hardcore Rap Pioneer, Chuck D (Public Enemy), Crook has served as lead guitarist of Meat Loaf's Neverland Express. In that time, he has performed on four Meat Loaf studio albums, three live albums/DVDs and two music documentaries. He also produced Meat Loaf's two most recent studio albums, Hell In A Handbasket and Braver Than We Are.
Paul is based out of New Jersey where he has been developing young, up-and-coming artists through his www.onestoprockstar.com
program.
You can catch Paul performing Meat Loaf songs LIVE with the Neverland Express + Caleb Johnson.