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

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 from so long ago. I am still surprised by the way the songs are constructed - note choices, the way the arrangements are made, the way these songs are assembled. I'm still amazed at times.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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.

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

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

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.