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I can’t wait for part 3 in which I am sure I will be able to delightfully relish in and savagely devour even more of Mr. mascis’ issues, he seems to have had (still has?) a few.
"Jon" wrote:yeah but your missing out on all the cool pics. isnt 7 bucks (12?) worth seeing some dinosaur pics you havent seen? it was for me.
I definitely recommend picking up the issue if you can, great pics with the Dinosaur Jr article, wicked T Rex article, great article on Memphis, very pleasing Soul Cd, live review of the MC5 in London, they even gave the new Saints a decent review…
The magazine was over 15 bucks in Canada…
Yeah J had issues, along with Lou & Murph, don’t know many people that don’t…
part 3 if Diary of a Mad Band by Steve Chick…
Soon, Barlow and Mascis stopped talking altogether. So when, in May 1989, Mascis and Murph visited Barlow’s kitchen shortly after playing a show att the John Ausomnford Theatre in Hollywood, it was Murph who had to tell Lou he was fired.
Barlow: "Murph said, "We’re breaking up the band’. And then they left, J didn’t say a word."
Mascis: "Afterward, I kinda realised he might’ve thought we were actually splitting the band, as opposed to just kicking him out."
Murph:" Truthfully, we were kicking Lou out the back door. We had the tour in Australia, with Donna Dresch on bass, already planned, but we didn’t tell him."
Barlow discovered the truth the next day and confronted J and Murph. "The next day was like torture," recalls Mascis. "Hours of Lou screaming and yelling at us."
"I was pretty volatile," admits Barlow. "J just sat there and said nothing. And that was it."
Murph describes the days that followed Barlow’s exit as "a mixture of guilt and relief, though I was unsure where we’d draw our artistic fuel, without our original dynamic." Dinosaur Jr (as they were now called, thanks to some ligitious Jefferson Airplane side-project named Dinosaurs) signed to Blanco Y Negro and, with grunge on the rise, scored minor mainstream success with 1991’s Green Mind and 93’s Where You Been. However, the fuel Murph spoke of was lacking (
); later Dinosaur Jr records were enjoyable slabs of guitar-drenched country-punk, but not much more. The band fizzled out in 1997. "It just seemed like it was over now," says Mascis, words that could have been Dinosaur lyrics.Barlow went on to form Sebadoh with Eric Gaffney and Jason Lowenstein, their creative thos of enthusiasm and democracy the antithesis of his Dinosaur experience. Bitterness lingered, however Barlow sued Mascis for unpaid royalties in 1991, which hurt Mascis deeply. Shortly after he was awarded $10,000, Barlow’s lawyer seduced and was temporarily engaged to Lou’s girlfriend Kathleen. "Instant karma," murmurs Mascis.
"I was the only one who expressed any ‘I hate you, I want to kill you stuff," reflects Lou. "J never seemed to care, which just drove me crazy." One final confrontation arose, when J attended a show on Sebadoh’s final tour. "I went backstage, and he flipped out," recalls Mascis. "It was like no time had passed, he kept yelling at me, even though it was a decade after the split, I think he was on drugs. His mom and dad were there too, and they kept asking me, ‘J what’s going on?’ (laughs)"
Relations are more cordial now; Barlow joined Mascis and his Stooges covers band on-stage for I Wanna Be Your Dog in London in 2003, and at a benefit for an autism charity run by Barlow’s mother, Deep Wound reformed for a run-through of Video Prick last summer. There are also rumblings of a reunion tour this summer, though Mascis glumly quips, "I don’t know what good it would do." It it raises the profile of Dinosaur’s treasured early records, remastered and re-released this spring that would be enough.
"I remember Kim Gordon saying that YLAOM could’ve gone huge like Nevermind if the production was a little cleaner," muses Barlow. "People would go buy the exact same equipment J used, the same amps and pedals. He embraced the Marshall stack as something that could be expressive, not some bludgeoning heavy metal crap. I was reading some crappy Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists Ever list a while back; Kurt Cobain was in there, Kevin Shields, even Frank fuckin’ Black, but not J. And he was so fucking influential. He was the progenitor of that style."
thats it for the article, all apologies about any typos…
"Coma Girl" wrote:Yeah J had issues, along with Lou & Murph, don’t know many people that don’t…Ahhh, but of course, it’s just, his are much more fun to read about.
Good Lord, What a great read.
Yeah, thanks for the read… If I pick up the mag(not likely…
) I’ll scan the pics…Makes me wonder, though… If Sonic Youth took Dino on their first tour, I wonder if any Sonic tapers have the opening act… hmmmmmm.
+, it would be cool to find that Ozzy interview with J…
Quote:"Shortly after he was awarded $10,000, Barlow’s lawyer seduced and was temporarily engaged to Lou’s girlfriend Kathleen. "Instant karma," murmurs Mascis. "Ho-lyyy fuck!
"snow" wrote:+, it would be cool to find that Ozzy interview with J…I remember this was posted a long time ago but it may have been on the old board or something. Or maybe the email list I was subscribed to years ago. I don’t remember. Anyway, it was a great interview.
"snow" wrote:Quote:"Shortly after he was awarded $10,000, Barlow’s lawyer seduced and was temporarily engaged to Lou’s girlfriend Kathleen. "Instant karma," murmurs Mascis. "Ho-lyyy fuck!
from the "pretty much every single song Lou writes" file … the "holy fuck" might actually be that they got back together
Thems were turbulent times.from "Soul & Fire"
"King persuader, congratulations
Share her heart, you bought her soul
Princess confusion, come to me again
Saying goodbye was so much fun"from "Forced Love"
"Pitbull, heartbreaker, forced love dictator
Is she as shallow as she seems?
Sweet, yet heartless; mindful, yet thoughtless
Left a kiss to find a conflict of interest"Found Steve’s blog post about this article
-> http://mycherieamour.blogspot.com/2005/09/dinosaur-jr.html”>http://mycherieamour.blogspot.com/2005/ … ur-jr.htmlHe has lots of other good reads up there as well
Thanks for resurrecting this thread. Should be on permanent display.
I see this eyeball in a whole new light, given Lou’s oral proclivity…
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