Interview with Stan Reed

This is part one of a two part interview with Stan Reed, an experimental musician/artist based in the Seattle area since 1995. PLETHORA is his solo project.

Reed performing with Blue Sabbath Black Cheer at the Lobo Saloon, Feb. 2007

NWMB Where did you come from? When?

Reed Ok, so I’m sitting here trying to think of what to write concerning something that is quite absurd in the first place…in the eyes of the god fearing. I make noise. I sculpt with sound. I screw with the limits of audio perception through the use of absurd collages. I scream a lot…funny, my whole life, people have always told me that I was to loud, my voice, my boots, my laugh, my antics…to loud…never thought that people would pay to hear me be loud and cheer for it?!?!?

I have been involved with “music” in one form or another since I was 13. Started off in a metal band called Paranoid, (after the Black Sabbath classic of course), was the singer and keyboard player…if you could call it that. Went through a Goth like stage, joined a band called Morbid Tales of Love and played bass. Moved onto punk as I got older, one of my more famous bands was my air guitar punk rock outfit Puke On Me, started it at the wilderness survival school I was in for 2 and a half years…played 2 shows… and with the help of other punk bands like Crass, Flux of Pink Indians, Rudimentary Peni, who all broke the barriers of punk into the nosier, and a few freaky friends, fell head long into the wonderful world of experimental music/noise. I quit the band scene in the late 80’s to pursue school, women and drugs. It wasn’t until I had pulled myself out of the schools, women and drugs, that I began recording again…but this time with a different purpose.

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