Paz Lenchantin was a huge Pixies fan growing up. Now she's their bassist. In between, she spent time in Zwan and A Perfect Circle. She tells us all about her unique journey through rock.
What were some of your early jobs before you joined A Perfect Circle?
You’re suddenly with Maynard and Troy Van Leeuwen and Tim Alexander. These are some pretty accomplished people. It was so great. I would not leave the set. I would sit right next to him every day and watch him work. I wanted to do films. And here I am with a master. Afterwards, he was working on. He was building the sets. It was originally going to be Nicole Kidman as the lead. He was like, “You should come check out the set.”
I remember seeing Chloë Sevigny backstage. She had this really cute bob [haircut]. I was kind of starstruck. It had this energy of L.A. and I felt like a part of it instead of being a spectator. It was nice.. Was it a fun experience to go into the studio and flesh out the songs you’d been doing live?
The worlds of Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle were pretty dude-heavy. Did you ever feel at all like an outsider? Billy was looking for musicians. If I can say this, he had D’arcy, the blonde. He had Melissa, the redhead. And he was like, “And now, the lone brunette. I must have her!” And he didZwan started in 2001 as a smaller unit. How did he ask you to join a few months after they started?
She was just sitting there. I didn’t know it was an audition. I was just there because they told me to come up. Everyone was passing around a guitar. “You play a song, you play a song.” And then Marianne Faithful was like, “Oh darling, why don’t you try something now?” I asked Billy, “Do you think this could be an original coloring book that Henry Darger used?” He was like, “Let me see.” And then he grabbed the bible of Henry Darger’s entire works. He put it on the table and we both flipped the book at the same time, the little coloring book and his bible. And we turned it to the exact same page of a little boy chasing a butterfly. It was theIt was this magical, twilight thing that said, “I’m supposed to be here.
Yeah. But I was also a vocalist. Matt was doing more twangy guitars, so that changes that sound. And there was one song that was him and me singing the whole way. That is a change from the Pumpkins, besides that one song [“Daydream”] that D’arcy sang. There wasn’t any backups in the Pumpkins. It wasn’t part of the sound. That’s that’s important. With Pixies, people were like, “Why do you need a girl?” It’s because the vocal is part of the sound as an instrument, and it’s female.
He wanted us to fight back. At this time, my brother just killed himself. It was that same day. He knew that. My brother’s band opened up for us. He knew that, and was talking about family. I can’t remember. But I didn’t read the article. It was told to me later since I was dealing with family situations.
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