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fingers crossed tour goes well & more shows follow in august
long blonde hair
Quote:Dinosaur Jr roam againhttp://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2006 … 37,00.html
Dinosaur Jr … original line-up is back
By SIMON COSYNS
April 27, 2007WITH his straight blond hair hanging way beyond his shoulders and huge black glasses dominating his oval-shaped face, J Mascis looks like a throwback to the early age of hard rock.
Back in the Eighties, when sugar-coated synth-pop was at its peak, he roamed the earth as part of indie legends Dinosaur Jr, a million miles away from his style-conscious, chart-topping contemporaries.
His outfit played fast and loose, forging a path for the grunge movement to follow. Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain was a huge fan.
Lou Barlow took bass duties, Murph the drums, the only frills coming from the blinding melodic guitar solos of frontman Mascis.
They lived on the edge. Relationships became strained. After three albums, Dinosaur (1985), their masterpiece You’re Living All Over Me (1987) and Bug (1988), Mascis finally had enough of Barlow’s tantrums and kicked out the bassist.
And despite soldiering on into the mid-Nineties, they were never the same again — until now.
New album … Beyond
Following some much-lauded live performances, the original line-up is back with a stunning new album Beyond, which makes it the most successful of the current spate of reunions (apologies to Take That!).
It hits the ground running with the typically fluid guitar power of Almost Ready and proceeds with grand musical designs such as This Is All I Came To Do and It’s Me, full of deft flourishes and J’s steady, slightly wasted vocal delivery.
The ethereal, acoustic I Got Lost gives the album its perfect downer moment.
J is a man of few words — although they are well-chosen ones — who lets his fingers do the talking when he picks up his guitar, but he gave SFTW some fascinating insights.
“We’d played so many shows,â€
"Blonde" hair – ha ha ha ha ha
Good article but I’ll be very proud of the first author to not reference extinction, evolution, roaming, or specific types of dinosaurs.
That online review was in the paper last Friday….
I think whoever writes the music reviews for that paper likes alternative music, Dinosaur have been name checked several times. It’s strange to have a music section in such a mainstream newspaper, that doesn’t just review mind numbing pop music
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