Paul Geary (born July 24, 1961, Medford, Massachusetts) is an American rock and roll drummer and manager. He is a co-founder and drummer of the Funk metal band, Extreme. He left the group in 1994 to pursue a career in artist management. He was succeeded by former Annihilator drummer Michael Mangini, who is currently the drummer for Dream Theater.
Geary founded Global Artist Management in Boston in 1995. One of his first signings was the then little-known Boston rock band Godsmack.
Geary ran Global Artist Management for 10 years before being acquired by music mogul Irving Azoff and relocating to Los Angeles in 2005. He is a senior manager at Azoff's company, Front Line Management Group.
Geary is also co-owner of an authentic Italian restaurant in Boston's North End called TRESCA, along with his partners, hockey player Ray Bourque and real estate mogul Harvey Wilk.
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“Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man or man independent of woman. For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman; but all things come from God.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 11:11.
In v. 9, Paul wrote “Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.”