Let me start off by saying this may be a little long winded. You are warned.

I worked a typical 7 hour day yesterday (7 am to 2 pm, I usually work eight) and left work at 2 to head to Eugene, Or. for the Dinosaur Jr show. The drive was uneventful and gave me time to rock out to the first 4 albums on the way down.

I arrived in Eugene at around 5:45 and checked in to my motel room. After getting settled I decided to find the club the show was at. I knew it was only 2 blocks from where I was staying so I decided to walk. I walked a block down some street I thought might be the right way and am waiting to cross when I hear a screaming guitar solo off in the distance. I knew it was J. I followed the music and ended up at WOW halls back door. Dinosaur was sound checking. How lucky am I? I listened for a few minutes until they stopped, and out walked Lou and Murph. Murph started talking to some lady that worked for the hall and Lou was headed my way. I said Hi to Lou and told him it sounded great. He said thanks and we struck up a conversation. I mentioned I drove down from Seattle and he was stoked and thanked me again for coming so far for the show. We talked about Sebadohs future (which is on hold because Dinosaur is IT right now) and fatherhood. We talked for about 15-20 minutes and then Lou went to go get some dinner. Shit this was already going to be a rad show I just met LOU!

I got some dinner and went back to WOW hall thinking I might run into Murph or better yet maybe J. There was a gas station across the street so I walked over to buy a disposable camera for pictures of the show. I came back to WOW hall and started talking to the bass player in Preistess. We talked for a little bit and around the corner came J. I excused myself from the conversation I was having and said Hi to J. I don’t exactly remember how the topic came up but we started talking about jazzmasters. We talked for about 5 minutes when I asked him to take a picture with me. He said sure and the bass player from preistess took it. Holy Shit, did I just take a picture with J Mascis? I sure did and when I figure out how to post it here I will. Man, this show was going to be epic.

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The show began at 9 with some local Eugene band playing. They were ok I didn’t listen much though. The merchandise for this tour is awesome! I bought the moster shirt they’ve had all along, a hat with the wagon monkey, and a Zombie Worm shirt. They are also selling a white shirt with the first album cover with the dates of this spring tour on back. There is more cool swag so you’ll have to check it out. Hopefully all this stuff will end up online at their website too.

Anyways back to the show, Preistess fucking rocked! They were awesome and I was stoked to find out about them. Does the drummer do the 5 minute drum solo every show? It was excellent I must say. So they ended their set and Dinosaur came on. Heres the set list (I got J’s by the way )

The Lung
Quest
The Wagon
Gargoyle
Little Fury Things
No Bones
Forget the Swan
Tarpit
Lose
In a Jar
Bulbs of Passion
Raisins

I wasn’t dissappointed with the set list at all. It was awesome to hear Tarpit, No Bones and Lose. I asked Lou earlier in the day if they were going to play any new stuff on this tour, he said no they were going to play the same stuff as always. Still a great show.

One thing I was dissappointed about was this hall was a little smaller than a high school gymnasium and it was maybe half full! If I had to guess there was maybe only 100-150 people at the show. Lame. There did happen to be a pretty furious mosh pit during the show. I was standing right in front of J for the entire show (I got some killer pictures). I thought about what happened in Kansas and didn’t want that to happen again. So I made sure J’s mic didn’t hit him in the mouth again. I was talking with the tour manger after the show and told him what I did and he was stoked. He thanked me for looking out for J and said that crowd in Kansas was the roudiest they’ve seen this tour. He said they just got really drunk and crazy.

Anyways I just got back home earlier today and thought I would post my experience. I hope you enjoyed reading about it, if not…… sorry I wasted your time.

Later