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 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

“[About his Dad, Gary Usher, rock musician, songwriter, and record producer, working with The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Dick Dale, The Super Stocks, The Hondells in the 1960s] He’s helping you find your vision, tweaking the sound. Another thing was, the music- the technology, was changing so much. You’re talking four track, eight track, 16 track. My dad at Wally Heider, up in San Francisco, Sausalito area, was the first guy to really take two eight track machines and then you’re starting to really stack vocals and add instrumentation that hadn’t been done six months before and it never went back. It just continued to climb that way.”
— Gary Usher, Jr., 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“[How did it all start?] Well, primarily, it boils down to soap. We started with soap. My mother and I started the soap store. I did leather in the back and we had my brother's ceramics. It became kind of a pop culture emporium, you know. I call it a pop culture gift shop on steroids and it's got besides gifts and things, it does have a major amount of books, it has the art gallery. So, you know, it's really developed over the years from just having soap to having a little bit of everything, and I like to think of it as my interpretation of the best of each genre, so to speak.”
— Billy Shire, 15 Minutes of Fame interview

“[In 1981] I was thrilled. I was working in radio in New York at the number one rock station in New York. I moved up here to New York to take that gig. And within six months, I was so bored and so disgusted. I was looking for any way to get out. And luckily, this friend of mine from Philly Radio where I'm from, where I worked before, called and said, hey, there's this company. I don't know, they're doing something like a 24-hour video channel or something. Maybe you wanna check them out. And the rest is rock history.”
— Mark Goodman, 15 Minutes of Fame interview

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