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Gary Young, drummer for indie-rock icons Pavement, injected a wild-card unpredictability into the band's breakthrough, l | dG1fdHAzZm8xcXdTTm8
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00:00Hey, I'm Gary Young. I'm a musician, I play the drums, and I was the first drummer for
00:13Pavement.
00:20In rock and roll, Gary's a crazy character you don't see anymore. You'll probably never
00:25see a character like Gary ever again.
00:27He's a really unique drummer and totally hilarious performer.
00:31He's this guy that did acid 365 times when he was 16.
00:38He made Pavement unusual and one of the reasons why we got noticed.
00:42I was 40 and they were 20.
00:45He was a huge fan of progressive rock, playing with these lo-fi kids.
00:50Being in bands his whole life, he was amazed that people really liked us.
00:53I said to them, I think this is a noise.
00:59All fame and no fortune.
01:01I never thought it was going to go anywhere, to be honest.
01:04With Slanted and Enchanted, Pavement truly explode.
01:07They start getting called a new Nirvana.
01:14When he was on fire on the drums, there was nobody better.
01:17Not only could he play the drums, but he put on a hell of a show.
01:20He had this mindset that you had to create tension for the band to be great.
01:36I think he thought that the show was about him.
01:39We didn't know how to deal with it.
01:42Things started going downhill with him and Pavement.
01:45Gary called me up and said,
01:47Hey, I'm doing music again.
01:49What?
01:50Plant Man knows that the plants will grow.
02:00Plant Man knows that the plants will grow.

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