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Paul Zarvis
The AC Thundertones© are the band and songwriting company of John and Paul Zarvis
John Zarvis
John is an accomplished guitarist from Lanesborough Massachusetts who began playing guitar at a very early age.
He's a veteran of numerous rock and R&B bands which include: The Zarvis Allen Band, Dollars, Blind Date, Reverb and most recently, 3 Peace.
John's playing style is rock and roll all the way with generous helping of jazz and blues in the mix.
His principal guitar influences are: Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Clapton, Pat Metheny, Larry Carlton Steve Lukather and many others.
John's guitar playing has resulted in his being one of the most sought after guitarists in the Berkshires.
Paul is a keyboard from Albany New York who began playing piano at age 6.
He too has been in numerous live bands, many of which he played in with brother John on guitar. These include: The Zarvis Allen Band, Dollars and Blind Date.
Paul's playing earned him a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts where he studied Piano and Music Synthesis.
Paul's playing style is varied but leans toward a blues / rock mix with some jazz in there as well.
His influences are: Edgar Winter, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, Joe Sample, Max Middleton, Reese Wynans, Chopin and Beethoven.
Paul's playing has resulted in his being a sought after keyboard player in his area..
Together, the Zarvis brothers have over 30 years of experience in playing live, recording, and songwriting.
The brothers formed The AC Thundertones as a band that plays all original music, and also as a songwriting company.
They will concentrate on writing new and relevant music in every genre and will then offer that music for sale or lease to musicians who are in the market for outside song material.
The Zarvis brothers can work with any musicians to define the sound they are looking for, and then tailor write songs to fit that sound and style.
It's like having a personal songwriter at your disposal.
We think you'll agree that the time has come for a company like The AC Thundertones.
All to often bands and artists who are signed to a recording contract have unrealistic deadlines to meet in cranking out their contracted number of albums. What then happens, is that after the initial album sells, the bands will tour and tour and never have enough time to write quality songs to fulfill their contract.
When they have to resort to outside material the prices are extremely high.
At our company we can write the songs for them and our prices work out at 15% of the work's total revenues from radioplay and unit sales.
The bottom line is: If you don't do well we don't do well. We think that this agreement is fair
For this purpose, our prices will be on the above mentioned percentage for bands already signed to a record contract! For all other artists and bands our prices will be at a fixed sale price for our material. (Contact us for this service.)
We hope to hear from you and look forward to working with all who are in search of great songs!
