John Reis, who helped define an era of the city’s music, going to San Diego Music Hall of Fame

“I think I should be in the Hall of Fame of Confusion,” John Reis says with humility and humor as he speaks about his induction on Saturday into the San Diego Music Hall of Fame.

But if Reis routinely wreaks confusion, it’s ultimately a good thing, because it stems from his involvement in a bounty of different projects simultaneously.

Since forming his first band, Coitus Interruptus, as a 10th-grader at San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, Reis has played in more than a dozen local groups — most notably Rocket From the Crypt and Drive Like Jehu, whose hard-charging rock & roll cut a swath across the bountiful 1990s alt-punk landscape and helped define San Diego’s contribution to the era. Then he started a record label, Swami Records, which is still active around 100 releases