Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame

“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...

“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?]...

“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...

“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...

“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 real...

“[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...

“Basically, when you walk in, you enter through our gift shop, and then the first part of the museum is a lot of props from movies like the Bad News Bears, like physical actual screen used props, also Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a huge collection that Danny Boyd from House of Payne donated. And then we have the original Fast Times at Ridgemont High bus that was in the movie. And so it kind of st...

“I was going to Cal State Northridge or San Fernando Valley State at that time. I was an art and science major, so I didn’t think I would ever have a career in music. I knew I would always play, but I was looking at things that looked like they might have had more stability. Because that’s what you get when you’re a kid growing up. I mean, everybody, no matter how much they support you, they kind...

“Even punk rockers found what we did too intense. So they sometimes responded to us as if, you know, they were our parents and, you know, that’s not music. But as the years have gone on, people have got used to electronic noise and can hear that it is music.” — Edward Stapleton, Nervous Gender

“Me and the drummer, Stan, were in a band from the time we were 14 on. So it was a high school band. And that band turned into the Shrinky Dinks, and the Shrinky Dinks is what Sugar Ray used to be called. And we had our very first practice at our friend, McG’s, who was a guest on your show. And him and our good friend Eric Vinge had a house together, and in the summer of 1988, we had our very firs...

“And I’ve always said I’m in it, but not of it. I’ve been here fifteen years now. And on the day that I went to Nan Robinson’s, she’s the one who connected me with Gee Smith, who is my first my cousin. She was a manager in Hollywood, and she had all these photographs on the wall. And I was just looking at the pictures, and there was Troy Donahue.” — Deborah Presley Brando

“So we just celebrate the fact that we haven’t killed each other yet. And it’s three guys that are dedicated to just making a controlled chaos and energy, and it just, you know, like I said, it just doesn’t happen that often. Again, I’ve been in many, many bands, many, many groups, where it was just no nobody got along. Nobody could do anything. You know, it was, you know, four guys with a paintbr...

“[Why is it absolutely essential people buy your book?] Depends what subject matter you want to concentrate on. One of them, in answer to your question, would have to do with how we are all educated early on, to the states of matter that exist. We're told there are three of them, solid, liquid, and gas, when in fact, right now on Earth, there are really only two. One is solid and one is gas. Liqui...

“The Underground Garage Cruise, I played with my old surf band, The Untamed Youth. You know, it just winds up being a whole bunch of different things and just a ton of songs to to learn and rehearse.”. —Deke Dickerson, Singer/Songwriter, Guitarist and Columnist

“In my life, I'm in a better place. And really just grateful for where I'm at. And the people that I have in my life are amazing human beings. And there's a toxicity to being all of that time in Fishbone. And so I'm not experiencing that and being grateful for that..” —John Norwood Fisher, former Fishbone bassist

“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 decis...

“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.” —“I’m now redoing my label, which is called Hyperspace Communications. It’s a vinyl only label. It has a...

“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 ou...

“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...

“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 lik...

“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....