Richard Stuverud

Joined the Fastbacks as a drummer in: 1981, 1986
End of Drum 'Internship': First left in 1984, and then in 1988
Other bands:The Bombardiers, The Lazy Susans, Three Fish
Current band(s): Three Fish
Songs: 26 Time: 1:28:35 Rank: 3
SONGS
  • 3 Boxs
  • Call It What You Want
  • Don't Cry For Me
  • Exposed
  • Fast Enough
  • I Need Some Help
  • I Never Knew
  • If You Tried
  • In America
  • In the Winter
  • It Came to Me In a Dream
  • K Street
  • Light's On You
  • Midnight Confessions

  • No Lethal Hope
  • Only At Night
  • See and Say
  • Set Me Free
  • Seven Days
  • Time Passes
  • WAIT!
  • Was Late
  • What Will They All Say?
  • Whenever I'm Walking
  • Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
  • You Will Be the One*

    		•  Richard Stuverud

    * Richard wrote this song!
    Interview by Mike LaVella from Gearhead #3

    GH: So, you came in right after Duff?
    R: This is an interesting story. I was in high school and I was flipping through an early copy of The Rocket, looking for someone new to play with be'cause basically I was bored playing with goofy little bands and wanted to get a little more serious. So I saw their ad for a drummer and thought that the name Fastbacks was pretty appealing, so I called and spoke with Kurt. He suggested that I go out and buy a copy of the single that they had out, and if I liked it to learn the songs and come out and audition.

    GH: I guess you like it.
    R: Immediately. The music was incredible, powerful, fast, no pun intended. So I went for my audition at the infamous Fastbacks house in Ravenna.

    GH: What was up with that?
    R: It was a house that Kim and Lulu shared with a punk band called The Silly Killers. Anyway, I tried out and it clicked. We started playing and recording right away. We had some great shows after the EP came out. We played with The Professionals up in Canada, that really stands out in my mind as a great gig.

    GH: So why did you leave the first time?
    R: I was just young, it was a strange time in my life, I just wanted to try different things. I played with Al Bloch for awhile in a band called The Bombardiers. Great band, kinda different from The Fastbacks, a little more pop. Anyway, I still hold my time with The Fastbacks very dearly in my heart as a great part of my life.

    GH: How is it that you rejoined a few years later?
    R: I was playing with Al so I naturally kept in touch with Kurt. At one point I was actually in a punk-a-billy outfit with Lulu called the Power Mowers, she played bass in that band. Interesting time, adolescence.

    GH: You were in for a long while.
    R: I had so many great times with them! We did a West Coast tour with D.O.A. in 1984, we even played with Guns and Roses, who had driven up to Seattle in a broken down van, like way before their first record came out. Actually I didn't even stick around to see them because N.R.B.Q. were playing that night! Anyway, The Fastbacks will always be something special for me. Especially being this naive drummer kid in high school, getting a chance to step into such a creative thing. I mean, let's face it, Kurt is a genius.

    GH: It's nice to hear you say that, I totally agree.

    (c) 1995 Gearhead.
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