Never heard of them either, But a good read thanks and thanks for the other flagpole link too . Always good to have something new to read

Yeah, nice find! And I also like the fact that Lou Barlow gets some credit for the role he played in early Dinosaur. I mean, from our outside perspective it may be quite funny to read about all the tension that must have been brooding in that first incarnation of the band, but I can also imagine how much Lou was hurt and all that jazz…
In the same vein I enjoyed reading about that UK Stooges thing, when Mr. Barlow sang with Asheton, Asheton, Mascis & Watt. I don’t know if it was here or on his website (http://www.loobiecore.com), that I read about how much it meant to him to talk to J again after all, but I liked that too.
I would like to close with a – possibly already well-known? – J-quotation I found in a book called "Rock Talk":
"I’m much less of an asshole now than I was when nobody liked us."
J Mascis