NL- I sent these questions to Tom last week. Most are from you guys, a few are from me. He gave us really good, truthful, funny answers. One of the best, the brightest, the brilliant- an interview with TOM BYRON…
1. If you could bring back any girl from the history of Adult films for a seasoned players scene who would it be?
That’s easy. Traci Lords. It would sell HUGE, and it would be an interesting conversation, to say the least. We have a lot of catching up to do.
I always wanted to fuck Annette Haven, though…
2. Of the current crop of Girls working in the industry, who does he think will become legends?
Who the fuck knows. Sasha Grey made a pretty significant crossover having the lead in that Soderbergh film.
Seems to me you gotta put in the time to be considered a legend, but some girls, like Bambi Woods, become legendary from a single film, like Debbie Does Dallas.
Shit, I don’t know why people consider ME a legend. I’m just a goofy fuck that happens to have spent almost 30 years fucking beautiful women for a living. No big woop.
3. Since his job has been having sex with more women than 99.99% of men on the planet, ask him what he does for fun.
Rest.
4. Is Chloe just back for one movie, or is she now back in the biz? Will Chloe plan on signing at Tom Byron’s booth at the aee or avn convention this coming january? if not or if she hasn’t thought about it, please tell her the fans want to see her! i’ve been waiting for a chance to meet her.
Yeah, Chloe’s around, she signed with Lisa Ann. I’ll look into getting her to sign in Vegas. We sold the shit out of Seasoned Players 9, so I know she’s popular, the little wackadoodle.
5. What jobs did you have in California before you broke into porn? Is it true you worked for a sex shop on Van Nuys Blvd?
I had exactly 5 jobs before porn. First was McDonald’s. Then I did one summer at a lumber yard where my grandfather worked. In college, I worked at a student hangout called Chelsea Street Pub. Moved to California, worked in auto parts for 2 years before I found my way into porn, while moonlighting at Le Sex Shoppe in Sherman Oaks.
Porn is a much better job.
6. Your thoughts on former male lead Jerry Butler. Did the man make you laugh?
Jerry’s a funny motherfucker. I thought we did some really nice acting work in Kinky Business. He liked to stir shit up, though. Not afraid to speak his mind. I liked him.
7. Were you surpised by Jon Dough’s death? Did you go to the funeral?
Shocked and saddened, not surprised. Jon was prone to depression and really struggled with meth addiction. Decent guy, a lot of people liked him. Unfortunately, I was out of town and unable to make the funeral.
8. Was Randy Paul your twin brother?
No. Randy Paul, I’m surprised you remember him, considering he was in the biz for all of 5 minutes.
9.You thoughts please on the following performers:
Crystal Breeze
Dug her a lot. Favorite scene was when I was in a big refrigerator box made to look like a computer and I stuck my cock out of a hole and she blew me, a sorta glory hole deal. It was frustrating, cuz I’m very visual and I couldn’t see her, at the same time exciting, cuz i knew who was on the other side of the box. I think I did one of my least favorite scenes ever on that set as well, with Lee Carroll.
Alexa Parks
I banged around with her a little off set for a while. Nice big ass on her.
Barbara Dare
What a bod. Nice, nice girl. Always had a great time. She used to date a lot of women, I think that might’ve been her preference. Wonder what’s she’s up to now? I think she might have been the first contract girl, before Ginger, with Essex. I could be wrong on the dates, though.
Alicia Monet
What a nutjob. I was there in Europe when she almost bit Rocco’s cock off. Seriously mentally disturbed.
Frank James
Big friendly Indian guy. Favorite memory with him is getting drunk with him and Blake Palmer and roaming around San Francisco while on a Roy Alexander shoot back in the eighties.
Kevin James
Was the top dog at Jim South’s when I got in the biz. Had a very photogenic cock that worked well. Died quite a while ago from testicular cancer, I believe. Nice guy.
Steve Drake
One of the eighties go-to guys. Came in at the same time as Peter North. (84 I think.)Pleasant enough fellow, a little egotistical.
Damien Cashmere
Damien cracked me up. Good character actor, did some nice stuff with John Leslie. I think he got married to a really cute SF porn actress named Kendall Marx.
10. Whats the best concert you have ever been to?
Either the Metallica Summer Sanitarium Tour at the LA Coliseum in 2000 or The Grateful Dead in Anaheim back in 1987. Dropped three tabs of acid and had to chill in a mall parking lot for a few hours with my girl listening to the same Jimi Hendrix tape over and over again, watching the trees turn into rats. Good times.
11. What are you favorite memories of the industry?
My first day on the set. Being a part of the film era before video took over. Traveling to Europe. Oh yeah, and fuckin all those broads.
12. Who do you admire most that you have worked with?
I admired all the great old school directors like Alex DeRenzy, Henri Pachard, Anthony Spinelli, Gerard Damiano. Making a compelling film with hardcore sex and inexperienced actors is quite a challenge. These guys made it look easy.
13. Who was the best fuck you ever had?
That is the question I am asked the most and it is the most difficult to answer. I’ll tell ya this, I’ve had a lot more best fucks than worst fucks. Sex, even when it’s bad, is still pretty good. Best? Maybe I haven’t had my best fuck yet!
14. What is the funniest thing that ever happened on a set?
A girl having explosive diarrhea during an anal scene is always good for a chuckle.
Tom Byron
CEO Tom Byron Pictures, Inc.
myspace.com/tombyronpictures
This is epic! This fucking rocks. Great insightful answers, especially with his comments on the performers.
Taking acid and watching the trees turn to rats? Classic.
I plan on ordering some DVD’s of his stuff later this year. When I do, I will mention that the luke is back interview inspired me to buy. I shit you not.
Whos’ Tom look more like? Andy Dick as in the pic on top or talentless ex-husband of Bonnie Raitt, Michael O’Keefe, in the pic on the bottom. Goatlord look for the old stuff before Tom got out of shape, like Private Teacher or Taboo American Style. With the exception of his new Kelly Nichols scene I would just look for broads he’s performed with and their movies, unless the broads are with the Trannyfucker, now polluting Naughty America Live on a weekly basis.
Great Interview!
Good job Mr. Byron.
Den
He looks like a Metallica Fan, and follows their haircuts for decades!
BTW, what the fuck happened to Cloe?
I always stick with the classics Larry Horse. Private Teacher is amazing. Kay Parker seducing Byron is classic.
Tom did get a little fat in the mid 90’s. It was funny though, his whole body was skinny except for a big pot belly. Doesn’t matter because he still fucked those 90’s stars silly. Tori Wells, Ashlyn Gere, Madison, etc. he boned them and sprayed their faces with a big white sticky stubstance.
Barbara Dare’s surf sand and sex was another good one. Byron fucked Barbara on the beach. I wish they would put it out on DVD.
How come he never gets shit for his anal play he gets from chicks. Fingers, dildos etc? Some of those dudes get crucified for doing the same thing.
shit im a hater and i liked this…tom’s one of those dudes for me that ive seen in way too many shit, but he sounds all right
you still look old motherfucker, and rics is right he looks like a metallica fan…. or a very bad comedian
Chloe 🙂 Nice Return, she was one of my favorites performers in the 90 s great cocksucker and also great anal performer, funny and dirty.
I miss those girls…Shayla Laveaux, Jenna Fine, Tina Tyler, Ashlyn Gere, Dyanna Lauren, Missy, Shana Mc Cullog…
I just hung out with Tom…. fun guy and knows the business like nobody’s business 🙂
My hero. And a very funny guy in his own right. Does anyone remember a porn he did in the 80’s where the opening montage features him singing the theme song? Cringe-worthy as all fuck….
LOL. I have not seen that one, max. Somebody please post the name of the movie, I want it for laughs.
I loved Cloe in the late nineties, she was my fave, Oddly I started looking had her sofcore Skinemax stuff before moving into her hardcore tuff. She did it all. But I do now what her to come back like this. She does not looks good.
About the nineties PWs you like Pepe, all of those will be back at one time or have already tried.
Well with the exception of Missy. I doubt she will be back.
Ruby said that Chloe had some painkiller addiction issues a few years ago. Chloe looks tired now. She looked much better when I saw her in 2005.
Tired? She looks pale, bloated, sad and unhealty, like the last years must have being very hard on her and she is back in porn after selling pussy in Bodymiracle out of desparation and not of love of sex. And she loved the sex in the nineties.
Randy Paul, under the name of Robert Harris also did some extremely hot homosexual scenes in Falcon videos where he topped and bottomed(ONce taking JOHn Davenports huge cock up his ass) then in an army flick getting fucked by Jeff STryker while suking off another guy.He was also a superlative top man. I guess he was just a very sexual guy. I ran into him at Circus of Books in Hollywood in the late 80s. I think he was “working.” The last few years I heard Randy or Robert was doing all kinds of kinky s/m dvds including some with trannys with Bizarre video here in NYC.
here is Randy Paul now
http://www.deluxearchive.com/images/pornstars/randy_paul.jpg
Chloe does look stressed. Sad. She looked very good in those Skinemax movies, I thought she’d be able to do more mainstream stuff, like those specials Katie Morgan is doing. Oh well, money is tight these days, God bless her.
Yes she looks stressed and unhealthy in those pics 🙁 probably she needs the money that is the reason she is back 😉 anyway she was one of my faves too
Does anybody know something about Tina Tyler?
Tina when to Canada to do therapy for her incest problems. But it did not work, she came back to porn.
She took a minute of hate here for defending Dick of Death Marc Golberg.
Tina is back too. Not sure if she is with an agency. I saw her last year in person and she looked happy.
I dont know what thread to post this, so Ill do it here cause the Byron interview is a classic.
I finally saw a hard to find DVD from 2003 that has an interview with 80’s porn male Jerry Butler. He comments on many porn performers from his time in the business.
What surprised me was at one point the interviewer asked him about Roy Garcia. Here’s how it went:
Interviewer: Have you ever had a relationship with Roy Garcia?
Jerry Butler: Roy Garcia? Roy Garcia? Does he play third base for Cincinnati? Who’s Roy Garcia?
Interviewer: He’s a very popular agent in the business
The interviewer then asks about Jim South…to which Jerry does a spot on impression of the southern gentlemen..which had me bent over laughing. This dude Jerry Butler is one of the most nuttiest
mother fers Ive ever seen. The shit he makes up on the spot is amazing. Total comedy.
I thought it was strange that the interviewer asked for opinions on randy west, tom byron, sharon mitchell, vanessa del rio, kristina barrington, etc…then all of a sudden throws in Roy Garcia.
Now Tommy is one of the Better and BEST directors around and was one of the Better actors from the 80’s era!! I think tommy will outlast all the directors and maybe all the other adult production companies in valley for another decade or MORE!.
Thats right Rick Madrid, Tom Byron is the man.
Seems like the guy was in every fucking film in the 1980’s….and killing it in every scene.
Tom packed his bags and drove his car in 1982 from Houston to Los Angeles with the sole intention of being a porn actor.
Holy hole in a donught batman
Good one Goatlord!
I love women very well but for some reason Tom is maybe one of the few men that I really had a crush on. I feel bad saying that but his legs, ass, asshole, toes and penis are sexy. I would kiss him everywhere until he explodes.