Paul Speer, born in 1952 in Lewiston, Idaho, is an American guitarist, composer, and record producer. He began playing guitar at age nine and performed his first paid gig at twelve. In 1969, his group, the Stone Garden, recorded "Oceans Inside Me". Speer attended the University of Idaho's music school before moving to Seattle and later Los Angeles, focusing on audio production and engineering. He returned to Seattle in the late 1970s and began producing records locally. In 1984, Catero Records released his first solo album, Collection 983: Spectral Voyages. Notable collaborations include works with David Lanz for films like Natural States (1985) and Desert Vision (1987), and the Grammy-nominated project TeleVoid (1997) with Scott Rockenfield. Speer has released several solo albums, including Collection 991: Music + Art (1992), Quiet Thoughts (1998), Oculus (2008), and Ax Inferno (2013).
