David Pajo Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think the majority of the people in the band still play in other bands, because we’re not that active. But for me, it’s the only thing I want to do and it’s the only thing I’m focused on. I’ve always played in a couple of different bands at once, but now I’m only interested in the Dead Child stuff.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.