Aug 24, 2020
For Episode 65 I finally got to talk to David Pajo. David was,
of course, the incredibly influential guitar player in the band
Slint,. David later went on to play with Will Oldham, The For
Carnation, Tortoise, Stereolab, Royal Trux, King Kong, Bush League,
Zwan, Peggy Honeywell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and, most recently,
Interpol. Despite his incredibly prolific musical career, he still
struggled with depression. In the winter of 2015, he attempted to
take his own life.
As a survivor he has made it his mission to talk frankly and openly
about his depression and how grateful he is that he survived. I am
so happy that we had this conversation.
We talked about how Slint's record 'Spiderland' absolutely spun out
a generation of indie rock nerds like me, about our mutual friend
Lance Bangs, about his life since his suicide attempt, and about
espresso for maybe longer than anyone could possible care
about.