“I've had quite a life and most of it was just chance. I don't know. Just good luck. I met the most incredible people in the world. I worked for them. Not only Bowie, but Sting was my bass player for a while, and I worked for Vangelis, the composer of Chariots of Fire, and I helped Rufus Wainwright in his career.” —Cherry Vanilla, American Singer/Songwriter, Publicist, Actress, and Author

“For the first fifteen years of my career, I focused on construction law and business, transactional work and general counsel work. And I was really good at it, but as time went on and I sorta got to know myself a little better, there was something missing. You know, the work that I was doing was not as satisfying as I thought it should have been. And after a lot of soul searching, I made the decision to leave the partnership and start my own practice with the idea of becoming, a music industry attorney.” —Todd Wolfe, Music & Entertainment Attorney

“I’m now redoing my label, which is called Hyperspace Communications. It’s a vinyl only label. It has a lot of Flosmicrowave rereleases, Baby Buddha, I have an Ambient Series, and then I have a whole, kind of like, bachelor pad lounge series that feature lounge versions of my video game music.” — David Javelosa, Microwave Buddha, Los Microwaves, Baby Buddha

“We were the first ska band ever signed to a major label. We were signed to Stiff Records in England and so we played with so many people, Poorman, like Siouxsie and the Banshees, UB40, Squeeze, The Bangles, to Frankie Goes To Hollywood. I mean, we were on a bill with so many bands because a lot of the English bands didn't have draws in California or Los Angeles or whatever. So we would just go out with them to make sure that the supporting act would bring lots of people in. And it was great times.” —Derek Breakfield, former Bassist of The Untouchables

“Change your story is what I teach these kids. It's not about what you did in the past. It's about who you are today and what you're gonna do in the future. I think everybody deserves a second chance, or many chances for that matter. And I admire the fact that, you know, you use it as a springboard to better yourself.” —Mike Davenport, The Ataris

“I'm a life member of the Magic Castle, proudly, where I've been a member for 25 years. When I was transitioning out of music, I fell into magic, and it changed the course of my life.” —Rob Zabrecky, Magician, Author, Mentalist, frontman Possum Dixon

“[About her costumes, designed by her sister, Carmen] I got to be always with the same size. If I change, if I put two pounds, trust me, if I put two pounds, then the zipper don’t close. That’s why the reason that I never change in my size because if I like it to dress the costume that my sister designed, I got to have the same weight like when I was 17 or 18 year old. Seriously, Jim, I’m telling you the truth. She make a mannequin with my size a long time ago. And that’s the one that I got to remember if I wanna wear her clothes.” —Charo, actress, singer, comedian, guitarist

“And then when we finally get started to put the band together, it was like, let's call it Das Klown, you know? So we did that. And then we were practicing and we had some songs. We were getting ready to play at a party and I was like, I'm gonna get a ball and cut a hole in it, tie it to my face, you know. And I did that and I was like, man, that was good. It was like Halloween, you know. It's like I became like there was no longer being, like, shy or like stage fright. It was like I was a superhero. —AJ Ransdell, Singer of Das Klown Band, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame Interview

“Another bombshell. Let’s see. I got several. I have a book out, Juicy Divas! Confessions of a Limo Driver.”
—Jim Francis Meza, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame Interview

“I was always thinking outside the box even as a child, even as a kid, I always thought outside the box. And one of my big dreams was to be on TV and, you know, that whole thing, and then be a producer in Hollywood and do movies. And I actually have done a lot of stuff. I looked at my resume the other day, and I was like, wow, Peter, you know, you don’t give yourself enough credit, which I don’t. I’m just kinda yes. I did that. Move on. Let’s go. Next.” — Peter Madrigal Owner/CEO The Reality Network, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame Interview

“So it's technique and soul. And you take your technique and then you put your soul on the line. That's what I'm here for, and that's what you do, and that's what we do. And, LSD with the great Gigi on vocals. She's a superstar, and Damien on bass, Oscar on drums, and my son, Eden, on guitar and vocals. Me and Jesse (of the Perkins/Jesse Hughes duo, Piece and Quiet) will see you on May 10. I'll be Quiet. He'll be Piece or vice versa. And, you know, we'll make some noise with our toys and go bowling and have a beer and a slice of pizza and and celebrate, you know, life, today, you know, and here we are. And, don't forget that we live in the now.” — Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction, Porno for Pyros), Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“Alright. We are back with Shant from Archie’s Ice Cream. He has an ice cream truck that he takes backstage to concerts, and it is the best green room in the world. And he joins me right now, and he has good ice cream, great ice cream, as well as Clive Farrington, who’s been in that green room numerous times, from When in Rome. — Clive Farrington (When in Rome) and Shant Keuilian (Archie's Ice Cream), Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“You know, I got married and had a kid and wanted to be a square and it's just, you know, the gods of rock decided one day to just give me a mustache and the incredible propensity for dancing. And, you know, here I am. Thank the gods. Thank the gods.” —Jesse Hughes (Eagles of Death Metal), Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“And then, you know, a lot of the stuff that we grew up on at that time is a lot of the spandex, pretty hairdo type things, and we always thought you had to be someone special to put out a record or something. You know? So here punk rock started, so we’d do it ourselves. We’ll make our own records, and that’s exactly what we did. You know? And we built our own followings and everything. We even blazed our own tour routes across the whole United States that we used for, like, eighteen years, and we just did everything ourselves.” — Vex Billingsgate & George Hurley (Suburban John), Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“I am a solo artist too, and I’ve made a couple of records and, you know, it released to crickets, but you know, it’s like, if you could get some of your listeners and guide them towards my records, they’re, of course, on streaming, you know. And my first record is called Song About Songs, and it’s produced by a guy named Gus Seyffert and some great musicians on it. Gus played with, Roger Waters (Pink Floyd). He played bass with Roger Waters. And the second record that I just made is called Californias Burning. It has nothing to do with the wildfires, but serendipitously it actually, yeah. And this is nothing like Circle Jerks. No. It’s if think about the Circle Jerks and then imagine the polar opposite of the Circle Jerks.” —Zander Schloss, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“And then I’ll just like, fast forward to next week. Next Friday, May 2nd, we have a new single coming out, and it’s with me and Palmyra and Kathy Valentine on bass and Clem Burke on drums. Clem recorded it while he was sick. Underground Garage are going to, you know, be playing it and everything. We’re on their record label, Wicked Cool Records. And so, you know, it meant everything in the world to us that Clem wanted to do this while he was sick. You know, incredible person. And we’re so proud of it, and we can’t wait for everyone to hear it.” — Melanie Vammen, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“[On the craziest stories covered] Some of the most fun ones, and the thing that always gets the responses is just talking about personalities that people loved growing up. You’re one of them, by the way. Anytime I mentioned you, I get tons of mail and I always get people saying, hey, you should be covering him on KOCI. It’s a little station down in Orange County.” — Richard Wagoner, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“But on the Johnny Carson show, we were completely live. We played our instruments, sang live, played live, did all the choreography. That’s one of the best TV shows we ever did, and Johnny Carson gave us a lot of kudos after our performance, and he really liked it. He was a cool guy.” —Phil “Fang” Volk, Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“[About his father, guitarist Tommy Tedesco] I knew he played guitar for a living, but I had no idea that he, you know, played with all these amazing acts because I was too young. He was a member of the Wrecking Crew, which was basically a group of studio musicians in the sixties.” —Denny Tedesco, Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“We just shot the video for it [new single, "Car Song"] this week, and the cool thing about that is we actually used the car, the Volvo, from Breaking Bad's final episode in the video, the one that, like, Walter White steals and goes back to seek his revenge on Jack and the gang. And I bought that from the assistant director. And, now my best friend who runs the studio that I record at owns it. And so the video kind of revolves around me going to an Airbnb that's run by Walter White and his wife.” —Kristopher Roe, The Ataris