“The early ‘90s also produced another member of Missoula rock royalty: guitarist (and professional ballet dancer – seriously) Pat Phylmm. The flamboyant showman used to rile crowds with his Cheshire grin, tiny pigtails, and the tightest, shortest outfits one could possibly imagine. His most notable stint was with local favorite The Banned, but his most horrifying appearance was a side-project called Poop, which was a sort of low-brow art performance often showcasing Phlymm in ballerina costumes or assless jeans. Later, Phlymm formed Kled and the trio moved to Seattle, where they continue to play heavy metal disco pushed to every corner of weirdness by Phlymm’s disconcertingly childlike vocals. Hide the kids for Phlymm’s long awaited return.†-Missoula Independent, summer 2007-------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- “I give you Kled. They open our night like a giant pair of rock forceps stretching our inner walls until we scream. You can’t hate a band where the frontman is dressed as a gay sailor and sings a song that opens with “I have a vibrating butthole.†The band plays sludgy, growly rock a la The Mentors. This guy just holds the hammer. Beautiful. They are actually called back to do one more song, which never happens for the first band…†-Blue Moon blog ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------- Kled is low-brow heavy metal disco spawned in the mountains of Montana in the late 90's. The brainless child of guitarist/vocalist Pat Phlymm, Kled was born out of rural USA ennui coupled with modern dance-theatre performance art. Kled's songs straddle the fence between such capital-letter topics as Poop and Death, while bubbling in a stylistically perverse rock'em and sock'em context. Augmented by the knuckledragging antics of But,Cake (drums) and Beirdo (bass), Kled is on a mindless mission to aurally tackle the most sardonic of hipsters and the most repressed of conservatives by opening hearts, minds, and colons along the way...
