- July 18, 2010 - Sunday
- Interview with Lucid Dementia
1.What is your name and what do you play?
Sheldon Reynolds. I am the puppet master/Singer/Puppet Vocals/Producer
2.Tell us about you style of music for anyone who has not heard it yet?
Muppet Industrial
3.What is exactly "Muppet Industrial"?
It’s Industrial music that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and there are puppets involved.
4.How did you get started?
I had started or had been in a few bands previous to Lucid Dementia, where there was an expected idea of what the band should sound like, then everyone would get together and the original awesome idea would slowly get watered down until it wasn’t interesting anymore. For Lucid Dementia I did it completely opposite to that. I first spent a couple of years developing the music, and the idea, then released the cd, THEN I got the band together. This was there was no confusion about exactly what I was trying to do, once I started recruiting band members. I want to do something different than anything else out there. I think I’ve done well in that regard.
5.What is you favorite venue to play?
As of right now it’s Meridian in Houston. The club is a huge 2 story multi-roomed building that the horror movie that our music is being used in (Sweatshop) was filmed. It’s one of the coolest places I’ve ever been.
6.Do you have a favorite band/artist dead or alive?
Antonin Artaud: The first absurdist playwrite, wrote King Ubu.
Bandwise: Skinny Puppy, Ethyl Meatplow, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
7.What city/country would you love to visit?
Germany
8.What would you say about the music scene today?
I don’t think there is a well defined music scene right now. I think today more than ever, people are more willing to be into all different kinds of music, and different genres have blended into each other so much, it’s hard to tell the difference between them. I like that. A lot of music critics make the mistake of having preconceived perceptions of what a music genre or scene should be like, and nothing kills a genre or scene quicker than being pigeon holed like that. If you don’t let it grow, it dies.
9.Where does your music fit in?
My music doesn’t fit in perfectly anywhere and I’m fine with that. We create our own scene per show, which tends to create a lot of havoc. It’s fun to be part of that chaos. It’s fun to shake peoples preconceived conventions on what we are, or what we should be.
10.What are some of you influnces?
#1: hardcore punk. I come from the hardcore punk scene out of San Antonio in the 80’s. Back when dressing like a punk could get you killed or seriously messed up. It wasn’t pretty singing, it was really strange, deranged with lots of REAL bloody throat screaming. In the late 80’s I saw Industrial music as the natural evolution of punk, then came Gabber style electronic. All of that influence me until I realized that it was silly to box myself in with a single genre, so I let everything influence me as well, as long as it consisted of 1. Interesting sounds 2. Aggressiveness 3. Twisted lyrics
11.If there was one person you can work with who would it be? Why?
The singer from Ethyl Meatplow: Carla Bozulich. I have been in Love with her voice since the first time I ever heard it. I would love to produce an album with her.
12.What would you rather have super fast speed or super strength?
Speed.
13.During your shows you have a 6ft puppet on stage with you how did the idea for that come to you guys?
I had to create something that matched the voice of Lucid Dementia. I wanted it to be something fantastical. That became the puppet Luci (short for Lucid Dementia)
14.What are you worst habits?
I am a little OCD. So quadruple checking that doors are locked can be pretty annoying.
15.What drives your music and passion?
All those people that doubted that I would ever amount to anything,.
16.How has your music changed since you began playing together?
Ever since the first album, I’ve been pushing my band mates to get more and more involved in the song writing process. The first album was created without regard to how it was going to be performed live. I think part of my ultimate goal was to hear it played in dance clubs. Now every song I write I take into consideration of how it will be live.
17.How did the name of the band come from?
I created the band in 1996. A lot of other bands were using 1 word names, like “Tool” or “Screw”, so I wanted to do something that was the opposite. First I came up with Lucid, then using the yin and yang of that, came Dementia, then a discussion about eroticism and partying so hard that you vomit, and how vomiting can be considered an at of submission in a twisted S&M kind of way. When you vomit, you are submitting to your own body. A person that lives to be in a constant state of partying to excess that ultimately leads to this act of submission in a way that is erotic could be considered a Tantrick Puke Whore. I used to make music for a performance S&M group, so it probably had an influence on me back then… and the story behind it all was added in, which is actually the full name of the band rarely used anymore: The Fall and Rise of Lucid Dementia as performed by The Tantric Puke Whores. This was in part created by the bands original female singer that appears on the first cd, Kitty Mao.
18.Do you have a myspace?
www.myspace.com/luciddementia
19.Do you have a website?
http://www.luciddementia.com/
Also a blog:
http://lucid-dementia.blogspot.com/
20.How can people get in touch with you?
info@luciddementia.com
21.Anything you would like to add?
See us live, and if you can’t, look up the live videos of us that are bouncing around the internet. It’s the only way you’ll truly find out what you’ve been missing.
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