Jimmy Pou Bio

I began taking lessons with the lead guitarist of "The Ideals". After six months of
lessons, I was showing him chords to Beatles songs and he decided I didn't
need anymore lessons! At the age of 13, I started my own band, we chose the
name "The Bedbugs" after the Beatles. I started playing at teen dances and
parties, so you could say that I had visions of fame at an early age.

In 1970, at the age of 19, I attended college in L.A., while still living with my parents. The band I was in at the time, "The
Chosen People", were asked to go to Canada for a three month tour. We had to ask my parents permission, because
they were very strict at the time. Our 35 year old, female lead singer, Montica Montrel, convinced my parents to let me
go on the Canadian tour, where I was to earn $150 a week (a fortune at the time!). I had to drop out of college, but
since I was taking all music courses at the time, I thought nothing would be better than actual on the job training.

After returning from Canada, we decided to go off on our own, so we left Montica and started our own band, calling
ourselves "Jonah". We soon hooked up with an agent and started playing the L.A. club circuit. We eventually had to
change the name of the band to "Orion", because there was already a band named "Jonah" who was coming out with
an album and you can't have two bands going around with the same name. "Orion" stayed together for about five
years, playing the clubs. At the same time, we were doing original material in the studio, in hopes of landing a
recording contract.

In 1974, I married Sheree (we are now divorced and she has remarried). Our
son Aaron was born on 23 February 1976. I left "Orion" and began auditioning
for other bands. In August of 1977, I saw in the trade papers that they were
holding auditions in L.A. for the broadway show "Beatlemania" that was playing
in New York at the time (starring Mitch Weissman, Joe Pecorino, Leslie Fradkin
and Justin McNeil as the original Broadway cast). The producers had come to
Los Angeles to form a west coast cast. I got the part of "George" and was
eventually sent to Chicago to perform Beatlemania onstage at the Blackstone
Theater. The show played there for six months, then moved on to the Taft
Theater in Cincinnati, Ohio. From there, I toured all over the world with
Beatlemania, performing the show in London, Holland, South Africa, Brazil,
Canada, Japan, Cleveland, Ohio and also St. Louis, Missouri (where Lisa
Wagner was in the audience...).
I started to venture off and audition for other projects after being with
Beatlemania for several years. In 1983, I joined a heavy metal band called
"Fanz". 1983 was also the year that Beatlemania stopped full production.
Members of the cast formed their own Beatlemania shows and began touring,
using such names as, "Former Members Of The Cast Of Beatlemania". I started
freelancing, playing with seven different Beatlemania groups at one time, a
different one every weekend.

I received a phone call from Gary Grimes of 1964 The Tribute in 1993,
asking me to fill in for Tom Teeley, who was playing "George" with them
at the time. Shortly after that I joined the Tribute permanently. In August
1999, I released "Four Little Ditties", a CD containing four original songs,
to see if there would be any kind of positive reaction to my music. The
response from fans was quite positive.

Due to the success of "Four Little Ditties, I released a full length CD, "A
Dozen Scrambled Daze", in July 2001. I appreciate all the support from
my fans. I hope you all enjoy my music.