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.

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.

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 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 would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that was the stuff I was attracted to.

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.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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.