David Pajo Quotes

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

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

I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

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.

Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.