After a successful two years, The Screamers found themselves rapidly disintegrating as a band, causing Paul to leave in January 1980, and go on to play with Nervous Gender (with ex member of The Germs, Don Bolles) and Geza X and the Mommymen.
Formed as The Screamers in 1958, they soon after changed their name to The Flairs (not to be confused with the doo-wop group The Flairs based in Los Angeles).
The band re-formed in Los Angeles in 1976, picking up drummer K. K. Barrett and keyboardist David Brown, and a new name, The Screamers.