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.

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.

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

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.

We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.