12th July – Melbourne, Australia

[kracked873]

i really wanna hear a live "its me" also

[bomber2007]

I think this is from a local music street mag.
The guy seems like a bit of a dick.
He says Beyond is their first album in 19 years and that one of the highlights of the show was "Rabbits".

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Dinosaur Jr
The Forum

Huh, what? Pardon? Excuse me? Can you repeat that? Come again. A bit louder. What was that? Once more. You’ll have to speak up, sonny, my eardrums are marinated in sonic death. Heh heheh. One of the world’s most essential live bands, Dinosaur delivered the hammer on us. Though they themselves got hammered by the hammer too, I think. Tyrannosaurus-sized lashings of uncontrolled punishing sound walloped their ass, totally buried them. I figured the mix was shit but my mate Steve said the mix was legit, J just set his fucking volume control on 11 and drowned out the vocals and even Murph’s drums sometimes, which was a colossal drag. J, his colossal ego and his three-column Marshall stacks. J who’s looking more like Betty Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? everyday. Hey, J is hot, the epitome of handsomeness and the Wipers shirt only added to his delectability.

As expected the trio opened with Almost Ready, the blazing lead track off their first album in 19 years, Beyond. If ever there was a tune entitled the bomb ditty, it’s this one, though it took me a minute to figure out that that’s what it was due to the voluminous bleeding metal blare getting sucked up into the vacuum of the vaulted ceiling and also by the fact that the most effective new songs all sound like Freak Scene. J blew a speaker within seconds, smoke rising from the stack and a minder hustling about to remedy the situation. They replaced it and I was semi-permanently deaf.

The new stuff was as good as the old. Crumble, It’s All I Came To Do and Rabbits were massive highlights. Feel the Pain worked extra good because it had the finesse many of the other songs lacked. Lou needed a haircut and Murph needed to loosen his kit, it was way too stiff. His bass attacks were lackadaisical and savage (he and Eddy Current Suppression Ring’s hat man make excellent air bassists). Girl in front of me looked new to rock shows. She busted out an un-ironic air-bass that was much appreciated by her boyfriend who then alerted his mates, who turned and nodded outlandishly giving their pal the big Mentos thumbs-up. I’d like to apologise for burping African food into your hair singing “RABBIT FALLS AWAY FROM ME, BUT STILL I CRAAAAWL.â€

[toddashleigh]

Shane Moritz is a dick.

How can you say ‘massive highlights’ then ‘Dinosaur dissapointed’.

Terrible review.

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