Hi everybody, Andy Richter here with another episode of the three questions.

And today I am zooming with Stephen Maltmuss, the lead singer, you know, I guess major

domo of pavement, the boss, the pavement boss, front man of pavement. And then, you know,

and now as solo artists, although you guys are getting together to play, let's get these plugs

right out front. Four shows in Brooklyn in September, right?

Yep. Yeah, kind of the last cherry on top of a tour that started last spring.

Yeah, we're playing there. We're playing two more festivals. We're playing in Iceland.

Nice. Nice land. I know they wouldn't mind, they wouldn't mind some more people coming to that.

So it's going to be incredible. Yeah. What a salesman. That's right. We're so excited.

Well, how is, I mean, you know, you guys broke up in 99?

Yeah, we just, yeah, we sort of consciously decided to uncouple at the millennium.

It's a hell trove. Yeah, totally. The fans, you know, just it's sort of made sense after 10 years of

working together just to make it a decade long thing. And then, you know, every 10 years, roughly,

we've had our reunion and it's sort of, you know, catch up with each other and catch up with

the fans and get paid. I mean, is it good to get together? I mean, and does the length of the tour

is it a good length of the tour? Or is it like, it's like two months too long and there's the last

two months everyone's hating each other? This one, not so. We learned from the last one, which we

went really hard. It was, I think it was in 2012 or 11 or 10. I can't remember, but it was,

we went a little too hard that time and it gets some of the some of the memories of touring and

it being really extreme. We're starting to come back in, but this time it was more mellow and

everyone's and also everyone in the band is like so grateful and psyched to be there this time

because I don't know, you know, it's just probably that you just kind of remember all the good stuff

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