\nHe has been playing and writing music since he was 12. He wrote a book last year about his musical life and buying a new guitar called \u201cA Guitar Called Harry V and the Cover Band Conundrum.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Paris, 44, was born and raised in Canton, and graduated from GlenOak High School. He lives in Perry Township. He and his wife have two daughters.<\/p>\n
Paris has performed with the bands Broken Transmitter, Imaginary Cookies, Tender Hearted Rascals and French Donkey over a more than 20-year career as a professional entertainer and singer\/songwriter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWriting lyrics for a song is a wonderful challenge,\u201d he said. \u201cThe challenge is to tell a whole story in four minutes. Writing a book was more open to sharing in-depth explanations. I\u2019m fairly long-winded when I talk, so it was not difficult to go into detail for these stories \u2014 almost the opposite \u2026 when should I shut up?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\nWhy did you decide to write a book?<\/h2>\n
For a few years, I toyed with the idea of writing a book of song lyrics. I\u2019ve been a registered songwriter with American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers\u00a0(ASCAP) since 2005 and have published over 200 songs.<\/p>\n\nThe idea of writing the actual book occurred to me in the spring of 2024. I had been journaling in notebooks to collect stories for my podcast (“99 Stories \u2026 And This Is One”). On the show, my bandmates and co-hosts would tell all the horror stories of traveling to play music.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nWe were in between seasons of the show, and I was compiling talking points for when we would resume. The idea of documenting the life of a guitar was part of that. After I filled in an entire notebook, I realized the concept had book potential.<\/p>\n\nHow has Harry V been performing?<\/h2>\n
I still use Harry! Although, ironically, I\u2019ve been playing a different and newer acoustic at solo performances \u2026 so I\u2019m not totally over<\/em> my obsession with buying new guitars.<\/p>\n\nHarry will definitely be at all the full band shows this year. And of course, he\u2019s always at the book promotions and signings.<\/p>\n
How and when did you learn to play guitar and write music?<\/h2>\n
I started taking lessons in 1991. No kidding, it was because of the music video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” I was about 10 years old at the time. I began writing songs in the same vein by the time I was 12.<\/p>\n
If you could go back in time to meet a favorite musician, who would it be?<\/h2>\n
If I could go back, and without disturbing the spacetime continuum, I\u2019d watch Jeff Buckley do a solo set at Sin-e\u2019 in 1993 \u2026 and maybe a quick \u201cgreat set, man!\u201d \u2014 afterwards.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d also be enticed to warn him about swimming in the Wolf River in Memphis, where he drowned.<\/p>\n
Would\u00a0you describe what your perfect gig would be like?<\/h2>\n
A \u201cperfect\u201d gig is the easiest thing to describe and the hardest thing to do.<\/p>\n
It would be a beautiful venue like Red Rocks in Colorado or the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. It would be a full live band, no backing tracks. We would play flawlessly to an excited crowd that sang along to the lyrics. That would be total success for me!<\/p>\n\nEditor’s note: Five questions with … is a Sunday feature that showcases a member of the Stark County community. If you’d like to recommend someone to participate, send an email to newsroom@cantonrep.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cantonrep.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Paris is a well-known local entertainer and now author. He has been playing and writing music since he was 12. He wrote a book last year about his musical life and buying a new guitar called \u201cA Guitar Called Harry V and the Cover Band Conundrum.”\u00a0 Paris, 44, was born and raised in Canton, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2379856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[39915,30218,25138,305875,22220,375604,21941,24402,353090,21751,239390,43013,23849,22846,28546,6297,284334,21741,103020,49186,359127,51971,21739,298114,21800,348078,307678,360386,21738,39215,366777,366772,239343,239347,305871,23759,147314,21939,22366,67134,366771,356884,23152,284335,23239,359124,371116,463404,239344],"class_list":["post-2379855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-affiliate","tag-ai","tag-article","tag-article-plus","tag-arts","tag-ascap","tag-audio","tag-bands","tag-canton","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-content","tag-country","tag-country-music","tag-county","tag-eamotion","tag-enabled","tag-entertainment","tag-equipment","tag-folk","tag-folk-u0026-traditional-music","tag-highlights","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-music","tag-music-equipment-u0026-technology","tag-music-reference","tag-music-u0026-audio","tag-news","tag-oh","tag-oh-content-sharing-stark-only","tag-only","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-plus","tag-positive","tag-reference","tag-rock","tag-rock-music","tag-sharing","tag-stark","tag-stark-county","tag-story","tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-technology","tag-traditional","tag-tribute","tag-tribute-bands","tag-u0026"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Meet-Stark-County-musician-Scott-Paris.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379857,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379855\/revisions\/2379857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}