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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.