Jean-Pierre Bedoyan is a classically trained percussionist who has been a soloist with the prestigious Les Percussions de Strasbourg ensemble in France and worked with composers such as Maurizio Kagel, John Cage or Iannis Xenakis. He has composed music for film, theater and dance, and since 1992 has been composer for the critically acclaimed Diavolo Dance Theater in Los Angeles.

Paul B. Cutler founded the first punk band in Arizona and subsequently moved to Los Angeles in 1977. He founded the bands Vox Pop and 45 Grave, produced the seminal Paisley Underground recordings The Dream Syndicate and Gas, Food and Lodging by Green on Red, as well as about forty other albums. He later joined the Dream Syndicate as lead guitarist and toured around the world with them for five years.