Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame

This is in my DNA. You know? It's something that makes me happy. And, even when I try, just be like, I'm not doing this no more, like, many years ago, And I wake up depressed, and I'll be like, I can't do that. I gotta keep doing it. You know? So you get sometimes a little frustrated, but if you really love it, you're gonna keep doing it. —Big Sono, Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“KROQ was one of our stations growing up for sure! So love alternative rock, grew up a Rock & Roll fan, right? Whether it was Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Stones, The Who, Hendrix, Cream - those were my bands kinda growing up. Love Rush, love all kinds of music, for sure. So KROQ was a station that I had on all the time.” — Patrick O'Neal, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“[About her Facebook page, followed by 630K] You know, I didn’t call it Vintage Hollywood for a reason. I called it Vintage Los Angeles. Because it’s about the people, everybody, and structures and architecture and restaurants and destinations, historic places.” — Alison Martino, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“[Favorite Blondie song] Actually, my personal favorite is our first single "X Offender" which is also an homage to the Phil Spector Wall of Sound, Wrecking Crew sound. I was trying to emulate the drums of Hal Blaine on that record. And also Richard Gottehrer producing was a product of the Brill Building and also very much influenced by that whole thing we're talking about- Spector, etcetera. So, to this day, the song "X Offender" is actually my favorite song. It has very great meaning for me, you know? Kinda got our foot in the door.” — Clem Burke, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“You know, I am not a person that is intimidated by people who have fame, money, or anything like that. And maybe it’d be different if I was President of the United States, but I have my doubts. I’m just kind of a regular guy, and I meet people, and I kinda take them at face value and make my judgments as I get to know them. So I put up everybody pretty much on equal footing and then you either go up or down on that footing, depending on how we get along.”
— Daniel Zormeier, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“[About former drummer, Clem Burke, who passed the day before this interview] No. He was our drummer. He was just the best drummer ever. I was saying before, I went to see Blondie because I liked Debbie Harry, but I left the concert in love with Clem Burke because he was just the greatest drummer I ever saw. I couldn’t believe it when he joined our band.” — John Easdale, Dramarama. Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“I think there’s a movie or a documentary in it- the phenomenon of our audience and then all of us singers and bands, you know, we’re still doing it and the people just keep coming and coming. You know, we do this Happy Together Tour every summer. This will be our 11th summer in a row where we do between 55 and 60 shows within 2.5 months, and the crowds are crazy. We thought the Happy Together Tour was going to be over two years ago just due to attrition, the audience just kind of fading. But we’re not fading, we are filling these places up with all of our people.”

—Paul Cowsill, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“We're launching a tour and a new single on April 25. The song is called "Get Dancing" and we're reaching out to all our fans to go on our YouTube and learn the choreography and be in the video with us. We're filming the week of April 14 in Los Angeles. So yeah. It's just I really want as many people as possible to learn the choreography and be in the video with me. And, I think it's gonna be really cool. And then April 25, we launch this tour, and we're just going everywhere.”
— Monique Powell, Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“You know, man, we cut a wide swath through this mockery known as the music business. We always tried to maintain a sense of humor. We wound up sticking around a lot longer than people thought we would, and we’ve made 16 records, you know. We got our own label and, you know, as the years went on, we’d add more and more crazy people to the mix that you wouldn’t expect. You know, Nick Oliveri came in from the Kyuss crew and Josh Freese came in. He’s now in the Foo Fighters and, you know, there’d be all kinds of great players and interesting songwriters, but we were always kinda known for that just kernel of insanity.”
— Blag Dahlia, 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“Well, my book, Violence Girl: From East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story, it starts off with my childhood and it gets into how I got into music, got into punk rock. But then beyond that, it also it goes into, like, my whole family life and how my relationship with my father shaped my world view really, really shaped me because it turned me into a feminist. My father was abusive and, not to me, but to my mother. But growing up in that situation, really feeling powerless as a child made me want to grow up to be someone who stands up to bullies and especially men who bully women. So, you know, I find plenty to do because we live in a patriarchy, so there’s always that fight that motivates me.”
— Alice Bag, Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame interview