The Rialto This Week. Pavement, like Sonic Youth, Sebadoh and Built to Spill, has defined rock and roll for the last 10 years. West, the band's second drummer, bought an 1850 plantation house in rural Virginia, and while the band's not at it, touring the country to bring fans of their literate, laconic music to their knees, he's fixing up the shack. But it will take a lot to get this house into the 20th century. Bringing a home 150 years into the future seems like child's play compared to building great records and constructing a fan base.
Houses are far more permanent and forgiving.
As he did with the old farmhouse, West walked into an established Pavement. The band's first drummer, Gary Young, played on all of the band's early singles and 1992's breakthrough CD, Slanted and Enchanted but was eventually fired due to chronic substance abuse, and the resulting erratic behavior. In those early years of the band, Pavement had members scattered on both coasts, and traded tapes through the mail in a novel recording process. Steven Malkmus at the Whitney in New York City. We would get together and work out the songs in the early recordings.