David Pajo Quotes

#1. 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 a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.

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#2. I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

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#3. The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.

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#4. I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

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#5. In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

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#6. When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

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#7. Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

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#8. As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

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#9. I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in my car, you'll find a very wide range of music under the umbrella of metal.

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#10. Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.

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#11. We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

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#12. We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor was one of the connecting forces among us. It was more like camaraderie.

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#13. People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that.

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#14. Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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#15. As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

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#16. To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that.

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#17. It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

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#18. 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 like the same music. Everybody contributes their own influences, style, and history.

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#19. I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.

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#20. 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 ads.

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#21. We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

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#22. When we woke up every morning, one of our things was, "Let's go put a new sign in the back window of the van." Those are the different signs we had up in the back of our van, so that the people behind us could have something enjoyable to look at.

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#23. My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason ... but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

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#24. I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.

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#25. There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.

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#26. 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.

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#27. I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

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#28. 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 a practice space or figure out when another band would be in there or worry about if your stuff is going to get stolen.

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