“I’m still an altar boy. Actually, I wasn’t an altar boy when I was little. I just kind of evolved into one as an adult.” — Joe Escalante (The Vandals)

“You know, it’s just kind of a well, a dream come true and why I got into doing this in the first place. Growing up in New York, I was just a huge music fan, and this is always what I wanted to be a part of.” — Mark Linett (Grammy Award-winning Record Producer and Audio Engineer)

“[What is the best generation of horror in your opinion?] Well, the eighties and nineties is what I love. You know, whenever I’m watching movies, eighties and nineties. Whenever I wanna study filmmaking and work on my own filmmaking endeavors, they’re all gonna be based on eighties and nineties, not doing anything in present time.” — Kyle Thompson (Special FX Artist, Midnight Studios FX)

“So I started answering the phone, and about a week later they hired me as receptionist. And about two weeks later, Rick Carroll let me go on the air and start doing the News on the air. And then they started paying me, and I became promotions director. It was about, I don’t know, a month later. They hired me as promotions director. [How old were you?] I was 18. [Wow.]” —April Whitney (Former KROQ DJ)

“[On creating the poster for Friday the Thirteenth Part VIII, Jason Takes Manhattan] It’s really cool because that poster got banned in New York, so that’s a cool little thing. [Why was that? What got it banned?] Because I took the ‘I Heart New York’ poster and had him slashing through it, coming from behind so his mask is kinda replacing the heart. And the city goes, “Uh, well this is our iconic image for our city, so this poster is banned.” Which is great. You always wanna be banned.” — Rick Lynch (Visual Artist, Movie Poster Designer)

“What I was doing at first when I came here, I was playing disco music, and then I was playing country music for a while because you had to like in 1980. And then in 1981, I was managing a club in Universal City and one of my DJs said you got to tune into this radio station at 106.7, it’s called KROQ. They got all these crazy guys on there, Dusty Street, Freddie Snakeskin, Jed the Fish. They got the greatest names, there’s even a guy called Poorman. And I started to listen to KROQ.” — Swedish Egil (DJ, The Godfather of Dance Music in L.A.)

“I mean, his son got him a Diet Coke the day before, and he said, “That’s the stuff, I dig that stuff!” Although he didn’t use the word ‘stuff’. And he, you know, he was just regular Brian. And the next morning, he was gone.” — Mark London (Brian Wilson Graphic Designer, Wilson Family Friend/Assistant)

“You know, I’ve been lucky to be around some really great bands over the years, and it’s such a hard thing to do. I’ve always done it for the love of it and just to show up and and do my best. And, everything that I’ve done, man, it’s been fun.” — Nick Zeigler (Drummer, Mary's Danish, The Leonards, Forty Nineteens)

“In my lifetime, I remember like two jazz explosions. One was back in the George Benson, Grover Washington Junior days that I can remember. And then I would say twenty years ago with, The Wave in Los Angeles and smooth jazz, and you could fill in the blanks. You can definitely say that jazz, you know, since its onset has gone through all kinds of different iterations.” — Eric Marienthal (Grammy Award-winning Saxophonist)

“Promoting unfortunately, these days, you know, it’s not like in the sixties when you used to walk into Capitol Records and you used to get a deal, you know, record deal. Those days are gone. You know? The record company is gone. It’s just so much. It’s all Internet work right now, artist by artist. We all have to, you know, write the music and then promote the music, And it’s, like, so crazy to do that, but, it takes it away from working with the music to concentrate on finishing music, and then you have to concentrate on calling or sending the song out to this and that. You know? So it’s really hard these days, but, we have to keep on playing that rock and roll, you know, whatever it takes. [What year did you start in music?] Oh, when I came from Italy, in the sixties.” — Tony Valentino (Lead Guitarist, Founding Member, The Standells)

“Most people that make surfboards, they don’t have any idea about aqua dynamics whatsoever. They just copy everybody’s stuff and say, I know what’s going on. But whereas I’ve done a lot of research in it and I’ve experimented and stuff, and I actually do scientific research on how to make them perform better. [And the way they look, you’re heavily influenced by race cars. Right?] Yes. I used to race cars and boats when I was young before I started making surfboards, and my boat held the world’s champion in the speed record.”
— Lance Collins (Founder of Wave Tools Surfboards)

“We have Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, it’s a really cool thing. You know, these people from all over the U.S. or world come and you know, I’m a counselor and we’re called, you know, the council. Then they have headliners, they call it. Like, the last one was Stewart Copeland and Robbie Krieger and Skunk Baxter, or they’re doing one pretty soon with Rob Halford and Alice Cooper. And what you do is, you know, you get a group of five people and you get them ready to jam, you know, with the rock stars, you know, or the A list, you know. So it’s kinda like, it’s an adventure.” — Tommy Black (General Manager, The Viper Room)

“It’s kinda weird, isn’t it? Like, we thought 50 was over the hill. And then, yeah, here we are still plugging away. And I guess it’s just the music must keep us alive, you know, for the next show.” — Al Jardine (Co-founder, Rhythm Guitarist, Vocalist of The Beach Boys)

“I went over to Brian's house and, talked to his mother about starting a band. So I was persistent. And the last thing Brian said to me a couple of weeks ago was he looked at me and he said, you started the you started the group.” — Al Jardine (Co-founder, Rhythm Guitarist, Vocalist of The Beach Boys)

“But now he’s real clear and is a practical joker. And he’ll I mean, he’s wait till you hear the album, the Love You album we’re recording right now for the tour that I’m taking his band out on. And we’re doing the quirkiest music ever written and some of the most beautiful, I might add, depending on how you look at it. It’s called the Beach Boys Love You album that we’re recording.” — Al Jardine (Co-founder, Rhythm Guitarist, Vocalist of The Beach Boys)

“Mike Love just came back from India with his, you know, Swami outfit on and his long red beard. And he was a little bit, shall we say, in his zone. And we went out on stage, and he got mad at Brian for something, oh, for not playing. Brian, sometimes, would get this glazed look on his face and just be thinking about something else, I guess. And Mike began to push the piano off stage. [Off stage?] Yeah, he decided to just push the piano off stage. Of course, he couldn’t do it because it was too heavy, but it was a little bit shocking. You know? Because you don’t see that too often. [How did Brian react?] He just sat there in his chair and watched.” — Al Jardine (Co-founder, Rhythm Guitarist, Vocalist of The Beach Boys)

“When I talk about the pet cemeteries, right, everyone thinks I’m gonna talk about cats and dogs, and it’s not. And that’s what’s beautiful about this, is the number of different animals people can bond with. So one day in this office in Maryland, these guys show up for work and there’s a fly buzzing around. They’re like, oh, damn it, there’s a fly. And this fly’s driving them crazy. It’s buzzing all around their office. And then they slowly kinda go this fly’s got this thing, you know? It’s got the it factor and they’re kinda like, hey, I kinda like this fly. Yeah. I like that fly too. Yeah. That’s a good fly. And they adopt this fly as their office pet, as their kind of mascot. And everybody in the office loves this fly. And then they find the fly dead one day and they’re mourning this fly, you know, an animal that we would overlook, an animal that to most people is just a nuisance. They had fallen in love with a fly. And then when it died, they took its little body and they had a little wake for it.” — Dr. Paul Koudounaris “Paul K” (Author, Photographer, Art Historian, Lecturer)

“And the first weekend we made it to London, we get a call saying that the boards never made it. So we’re kinda in scramble mode, trying to figure out what to do. And we start making calls to people and ended up finding this guy named Nick over in England who had two boards for us. And he ended up driving them out to us in London, which was like a six hour drive. And a huge shout out to him. If it wasn’t for him, we probably wouldn’t have made this thing possible.” — Stuart Jeremias & Spencer Wadsworth (England to France on Prone Paddleboards)

“We’re playing July 11 at the Garden Amphitheatre in Garden Grove, and we have a great set for everybody. We’re doing, like, a lot of my dad’s hits, a couple originals of our own, but it’s gonna be a really great family show. We’ve been working really, really hard to just, you know, pay homage to him and get everything, like, sounding like it is on the record like my dad would want, and we’re really excited. So if you guys are available and you wanna have a good night out, come to the Garden Amphitheatre on July 11. [What’s the name of the band?] The Eddie Money Band. [So it’s in tribute to your dad, and I know your brother’s in it as well, right?] Yeah. My brother Dez Money is in it as well.” — Jesse Money, Singer, Actress, Daughter of Eddie Money

“[On producing the 1994 comedy, Dumb and Dumber] The number of people who turned us down and said, you know, if I were you, I wouldn’t get involved with that script. It’s so lowbrow, you know, you’re gonna lose all your money, it’s gonna be a nightmare, and you’ll never be able to recover. And, you know, it just goes to show, you stick with your guns sometimes and good things will happen. You know, of course, Peter and Bobby Farrelly are some of the best filmmakers ever produced in America. You know, Pete went on to win the Academy Award for the Green Book. I don’t know if you saw that movie, but it was super great. Incredible. You guys, they made Something About Mary, another classic great comedy, and they made so many others. They’re super, super talented and I’m glad to call them my friends.” —Brad Krevoy, Film Producer & CEO of Motion Picture Corporation of America