Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame

“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), Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“I was amazed at the way he worked. First, there’s two things. I would watch his fingers when he was talking and his fingers would get all kinda spider like. It would play with the pots, which are the the volume controls on the board, and they were all over the board as he would talk. He would queue up records while talking. And the coolest thing that would just drive me nuts is he would wait so long before queuing up the next record.”

— John Logic, Poorman's Special Guest Tribute show for his beloved friend, Jed the Fish

“So I think just subliminally, it just kind of led me down that road. I loved music, I loved film, and I ended up going that direction, you know? 1980s, I was watching MTV, and I was like who is this guy Russell Mulcahy that’s directing these Duran Duran videos, Billy Joel’s “Pressure” and [Duran Duran’s] “Rio” and all this stuff. And I was just like obsessed with it. So I went into production, you know, but I started in, multimedia. And it just kind of like led me in that direction.”

— Krista Montagna, Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“Drivin' was pretty big, not a Top 10, but it was a Top 100 Billboards recording in 1979. And yes, so Drivin' was the biggest hit I've ever had and Pearl Harbor and the Explosions was the most successful I ever was. But success does not mean fun or happiness. You know? So I was more all about fun and happiness.” —Pearl Harbour, Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame interview

[On tribute bands] It's sort of a double-edged sword. You know? I think, it's it's kept it our music alive or helped revive it, but sometimes, you know, I feel like it's gotten to be so many tribute bands, you know, and it's gotten to be, like, almost over the top. —Joe Puerta, Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame interview