I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
There are five of us. We've all played in various bands together, in different combinations. I know that Todd [Cook] and Tony [Bailey] are my favorite rhythm section - they're just like a unit. I guess we've all just played… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon. — David Pajo Copy Share Image
We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock. — David Pajo Copy Share Image
To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music. — David Pajo Copy Share Image
On a musical level, I do find it rewarding. It's not like I want to blow my brains out while I'm playing these songs… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
Louisville was also good place for being able to make whatever kind of music you wanted to. You didn't have to worry about renting… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning. — David Pajo Copy Share Image
I don't know if it was related to the type of music that we were doing at that time or what, but Todd Cook… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc. — David Pajo Copy Share Image
Personally, I love the cookie monster grunts. I like how they alienate listeners. We sound the way we sound. We're individuals. We don't all… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
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