Who We Are

Scott King – Lead Vocals
Scott King Scott’s music career began in Boston as a singer-songwriter on the acoustic music circuit in the early 90’s and later as the front-man and main writer for the rock band, Xguru. He has made five studio records to date, including one at the legendary Fort Apache with producer Tim O’Heir (Dinosaur Jr., Juliana Hatfield, Sebadoe, Folk Implosion), played hundreds of shows both here in the United States and in Denmark, shared stages with artists such as Evan & Jaron, Jonathan Edwards, Johnny A, Pierce Pettis, and Rick Derringer (to name a few), won critical acclaim for his lyricism, vocal ability, and guitar style, and received regular airplay on AAA radio stations including Boston’s legendary WBCN and WFNX, and Portland, Maine’s WCLZ.

Scott delivers on guitar and lead and harmony vocals for Without Paris, most often playing his American-made Stratocaster with maple neck and Lace Sensor pickups through a ’65 Fender Deluxe Reverb amp. His favorite pedals include the classic Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer and a custom BiComprossor from Analog Man.


Craig LaPointe – Bass and Vocals

Craig LaPointe Craig is a veteran of the Boston music scene. He was once managed by Dee Anthony of Peter Frampton/J. Geils Band fame. Craig has also played in various bands and worked as a session player while living in LA.

When he’s not locking down the groove in Without Paris, he plays bass and sings some lead vocals in the original rock band Watts, opening for such national acts as The Joe Perry Project and The Gentlemen.




Jeremy Mathison – Guitar and Vocals

Jeremy Mathison Also known as “Jmath”, Jeremy started making music with plywood and rubber bands. Twenty-four years later he was proud to release his first original album ‘Under The Light’. “A labor of love” he calls it, doing all of the tracks and production himself, with the exception of his oldest friend Jared Steer on drums. Since putting away the rubber bands and adopting a real guitar, Jeremy has been making music his passion.

Jeremy holds a B.A. in guitar performance from Plymouth State University where he was a member of jazz ensembles, jazz big band, classical ensembles, and college chorale. He is currently working toward his M.Ed. in music and performs classical, jazz, rock, country and fusion around New England. He has played in pit ensembles and has been a music director for theater companies. His strong vocals as well as his killer chops on the guitar provide punch and power to the band’s impressive live performances.

Carlo Carluccio – Drums and Vocals

Carlo Carluccio Carlo has been playing drums since he was 10 years old. His first band – Siarra – was a regional runaway hit band in Central Massachusetts featuring the guitarist Bruce Jacques. From there he moved on to a local Manchester NH band, Viento, and enjoyed a few years on the “China Syndrome” circuit. Several bands later the music career dried up as work and a growing family came along.

After a few stints at the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles, playing and studying with such drum greats as Sandy Gennaro, Kelly Keagy and Simon Kirke and rock legends Spike Owen from Queen and Bruce Kulick from KISS, it was time to get back to the music business. Besides keeping the beat for Without Paris, Carlo also plays drums and sings backing vocals in the original rock band Drifting Son.

He plays DW Drums and Hardware, Zildjian Cymbals, Remo heads and Pro Mark sticks.

Special Thanks

Special thanks to: Peter our Sound Engineer, our fabulous road crew, Nick C, Nick A and Mike, the superb people at Studio Luccio especially the Snack Fairy, Roze with his cool pictures and videos, Sandy our marketing wiz, Wendy the Web Girl, Phil and his awesome creativity, and everyone else who has made this journey so exciting!

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How Did We Get Our Name?

Paris Hilton... The ubiquitous socialite. She’s plastered on the cover of every magazine in the grocery store checkout lines. Stories of her vacuous exploits abound, but perhaps the only substantial story about Paris Hilton comes from the day she showed up at a Without Paris concert. This was only the second gig the band had ever played, and at the time we were calling ourselves “The Sumo Wrestlers,” and we actually performed in these fat suits and bounced up against each other on stage and stuff, but after the first show we were so sweaty that we dumped the suits and decided to call ourselves “The Skinny Sumos” instead, and that was the name on the marquis the night Ms. Hilton stopped by. We were having snacks in our dressing room after the show when we heard a faint knock. Our road manager answered the door and there she was, and he said, “Man, you look just like Paris Hilton.” The rest of us just stared at her, silent. She said, “You guys were fab, and I loooove the name!” And away she went. Back on the tour bus that night we all agreed that if Paris Hilton likes our name then there must be something wrong with it, and that’s when our driver simply said, “Without Paris.” We didn’t get what Jarvis meant, and Jarvis is a man of few words, so we knew that he wasn’t about to explain himself, and so we didn’t ask, and to this day we really don’t know for sure if he was suggesting a new band name or making a random, Jarvis-like comment, but from that moment on, we were and always will be, “Without Paris.”