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bizarro finds….

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On Friday I interviewed J Mascis. It was a short piece and I could’ve done it by phone but ‘Freak Scene’ and the whole of ‘Bug’ were such big records for teenage me that, as he was actually in town, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to meet him. It didn’t disappoint. He looked like a big stoned egg in a wig, talked incredibly slowly in a deep voice and talked knowledgably about the decline in later series of Dawson’s Creek.

http://suburban-disco.livejournal.com/2564.html

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Also in my "Welcome Back From The Dead" playlist is "Almost Ready" from the new Dinosaur Jr. album. Since I’m from New England, I’ll always have a soft spot for Dinosaur Jr. When I hear that unmistakable guitar, violent yet somehow incredibly beautiful, it brings me back to my junior high days, when I first defected from my older brothers’ The Only Awesome Music Has an Accompanying Video Where an Almost Naked Chick Fellates Her Finger camp and discovered "cool" music.

I love Dinosaur Jr. for a variety of reasons. Not just because they were an awesome band, but because J Mascis was a fucking freak. A genuine, bona-fide, not-just-for-show freak. He recorded the drum section of one of their albums with a pair of headphones on. Although he nailed the section perfectly, it became obvious that whatever he was listening to had nothing to do with the track he was playing.

Finally, one of the awestruck engineers asked him what it was. Perhaps it was a different, pre-recorded track? Perhaps, genius that he was, he was multi-tasking?

Mascis shook his head and gestured to the TV monitor.

"It’s one thirty," he said. "I never miss this show."

The engineer looked at the TV. All My Children was on the tube. And in Mascis’ ears.

A friend from Boston whose uncle worked at Fort Apache Studios told me that story a long time ago. I don’t know for sure whether it’s true.

But I really, really hope it is.
posted by forksplit at 12:08 AM

http://forksplit.blogspot.com/2007/03/goo-goo-fire.html

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funny little rant about rolling stones recent guitar gods issue & the inexcuseable omission of a certain someone…

thenewlibertine.blogspot.com

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Then, there’s J. Mascis, the eminence gris of indie rock. His page in rock history is already earned, for no less an achievement than giving indie rock a lead guitar, and breaking with punk’s seemingly endless progression towards faster and harder. I saw Dinosaur Jr’s reformed original line-up in Seattle in 2004, and they were mind-blowing. Mascis looks like shit, and Murph’s showing his age (Lou Barlow alone remains fit and young-looking, due to his long years of success with Sebadoh), but they put most rock bands today to shame. Quite honestly, I’ve never seen an indie rock band play with a full double-stack of amps, and seriously, that was too much for the Showbox, but my God: the sounds he made were unbelievable. No jumping around to try to make the music seem more exciting than it was–Mascis played slightly hunched over his well-worn Jazz Master, and like Hendrix, the energy was all in the fingers. "Freak Scene" sent the audience into convulsions, and the guitar solo on the band’s seminal cover of The Cure’s "Just Like Heaven"–once overlaid with fuzz, flange, wah-wah, and a phaser–was a mind-blowing moment of rock and roll. The only comparable moment I can remember at any other show was Billy Corgan’s pick-scratch intro to the frenzied guitar solo in "Zero" when I saw the Smashing Pumpkins on the Mellon Collie tour back in 1997. In fact, you could argue that Corgan himself should be on the list, since the Pumpkins are touring later this year and releasing a new album in July. But Mascis has been touring for two years now, with Dinosaur Jr, and they’re hitting the road again later this year.

So there you are, the inexcusable omissions from Rolling Stone’s idiotic list.

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