He was also an outstanding high school baseball player and formed a singing group, the El Reys, which made a recording and was popular with Pittsburgh teens.
After his discharge from the Air Force, Eyermann became a very busy man recording music as a studio musician.
During that period he also was a studio musician at "Sounds Reasonable" in Washington, D.C., and recorded many tracks on just about every single and double reed instrument for the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, music by then resident composer William Penn.
In Miami he picked teaching as a private music teacher associated with Gulliver Band Director: Bobby Keating.
He died on May 1, 2007, due to complications in surgery, pneumonia spread throughout his body while trying to remove a malignant cancer in his lung.