Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.