[Jayne]

Kracked…
I gave him the original copy before the audio got upgraded. (I put the old VHS on DVD). But since we’ve gotten the new copy, I haven’t had a chance cuz he’s out on tour for a few more weeks. I did give a copy to Kyle though so they’ll be all set soon.

Thanks again for doing that….

[Jayne]

That sucks, but I’m totally not surprised.

To counteract this, if anyone wants to send me a blank DVD (+ or – will work), I would be happy to make a copy of this for anyone. Pete and everyone else, thanks for all your hard work on this DVD. It is much better than the original VHS copy you sent me. It turns out a friend is the one that audio taped.

If you want to send me one blank DVD and return postage, just email me – sandbox1013 at gmail dot com for address.

Thanks again Pete!

(I will also make copies of any 04 Fog audio if you want to throw some regular CDRs in there….I have the 4/28 40 Watt Athens, the Atlanta Smith’s or 6/8 Slim’s…or J solo 1/26/05 at Caledonia Lounge in Athens).

You can grab any or all of these, just drop me a line.

[Jayne]

Sorry if this is repeat info, but FreeSoFree.net has the audio (flac or mp3) up now and it’s a quick 10 second download. I hear the video is up on dimeadozen.org as well (aka Ezt).

[Jayne]

Exactly. Nothing would change so it’d still be a kickass show one would hope.

Good quotes though from the article posted above:

"I’ve mellowed considerably," Barlow said. "I carried a lot of anger around after they kicked me out of the band. But I let a whole bunch of that go. It happened such a long time ago, that it just seemed pretty goofy to continue being angry at someone who kicked you out of their band when you were 22 years old.

And, this obviously based on the Fog shows last year:

"I saw J play live a couple of months ago, and he played old Dinosaur stuff and it just sounded great," Barlow said. "The guitar sound and the style that he was after back then, he’s still very capable of that. It’s just a matter of me and Murph keeping up with him.

[Jayne]

Sorry if this is a repost from another thread:

http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-02/28.shtml”>http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-02/28.shtml

Original Dinosaur Jr. Lineup to Reunite!

Caroline Bermudez reports:
Dinosaur Jr., one of the most legendary indie rock bands of the 80’s, are reuniting to play the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan with shows in the UK to follow. The BBC reports that the embattled duo of J. Mascis and Lou Barlow will perform together under the Dinosaur Jr. name for the first time in 15 years. Ongoing feuding between the two spurred Barlow to leave the band after the release of their third album, Bug, in 1988 in order to focus on his work with Sebadoh. The 1990s saw Barlow’s greatest success with the Folk Implosion and the unexpected top 40 hit "Natural One". Dinosaur Jr. briefly went on hiatus after Barlow’s departure and reformed in 1991. The group permanently disbanded after 1997’s Hand It Over, at which time Mascis moved on to form The Fog. That group’s More Light– released in 2000 and featuring guest appearances from Kevin Shields and Robert Pollard– was hailed as a return to form.
No U.S. dates have been set, nor has anyone at Merge confirmed the reunion. The original lineup recorded three albums together, including the widely influential You’re Living All Over Me, which are set to be reissued with bonus material via Merge on March 22.

[Jayne]

No matter what the reasons are they are doing a reunion tour, it’s their choice to do it and one can either support it or not. I don’t think that takes away at all from the recent Fog shows that J has seemingly been having a good time with.

I say bring it. And come to GA!!

[Jayne]

I remember thinking at this show also that Alone was definitely one of the big highlights of the evening. And yeah, Sludgefeast is just one sick beast now…not for the faint of heart.

[Jayne]

Here’s the bit torrent of this show:

J. Mascis & The Fog
11-20-2004
The Middle East Club-Downstairs
Cambridge, MA

Disc I

1)Get Me
2)Everybody Lets Me Down
3)Yeah We Know
4)Set Us Free
5)Sameday
6)Ammaring
7)Out There
Freedom
9)Little Fury Things

Disc II

1)Thumb
2)Freak Scene
3)Alone
Encore:
4)Throw Down
5)The Wagon
6)Sludgefeast

Source Info: AKG 391>Oade M148>JB3>CD Wave>Flac Frontend
Taped by Jeff Moores and Lindsay Rogers
Transferred by Lindsay Rogers

http://www.jmascis.com
http://www.widespreadpanic.com
http://www.thetomcollins.com
http://www.freesofree.net

jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D2T01.flac:a9b2d3af61701006d6150bece7333788
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D2T02.flac:f7dad454d1804ec92ec953acac653965
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D2T03.flac:ad836461ae4ba66dfdef57f40cdd0956
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D2T04.flac:c25fe712d44835efdbd9c5ad0b842b0f
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D2T05.flac:2a9224823c84d3469df97b48eaccd15e
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D2T06.flac:d7877c92bbd95fe9fe659d849fd9ce5a
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D1T01.flac:788dacf11cbb02c0011379374e460577
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D1T02.flac:acc31eafcabade41b8ee2ac87f0bf69c
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D1T03.flac:4290bce227345ad8b5e6dd84fbe3fc51
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D1T04.flac:e5cfadb660cb9bd31fabc60787e20a5f
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D1T05.flac:a6d1beaa144645908225b50808033754
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D1T06.flac:afb227478ff9d86ec49a21d6409723e3
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D1T07.flac:ebf2ac5893c5ffdd9314e19f4ae94a81
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D1T08.flac:57f7904f1e0c5ef757a7bb91b38a6ab0
jmascisfog 2004-11-20 D1T09.flac:fc4fab67c542d9df3a02b101d6720a5a

Attached Files jmascisfog 2004-11-20.torrent (22.4 KB, 8 views)
http://digitalpanic.org/btforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2149″>http://digitalpanic.org/btforums/attach … entid=2149

[Jayne]

They were called the Taylor Hollingsworth Band. I guess they play there a lot.

[Jayne]

I think southern rock is an oversimplified way to explain what WSP’s sound is like. They are southern and all, but they certainly don’t sound like LSkynard. And I don’t think jamband is a good way to characterize them either (even though they were the forerunners of that modern-day jamband genre). They do long guitar jams like J does, but I think they set themselves apart from most other jambands IMO. Mainly because there is more meat to the songs. The lyrics, for the most part, are actually well-thought out too and their former guitar player (who passed away in ’02) had an extremely original guitar sound, just like J. Both are up there in my books.

But labels tend to oversimplify things anyhow. And Dave’s a punk/classic rocker at heart anyway:)

I’ve been a WSP fan for 10 years and I’ve loved Dinosaur Jr. for about 12 years, and I became a big Tom Collins fan last year, so you can imagine my elation when the three got together this year. Many WSP fans who have seen this Fog tour aren’t used to music being that loud, many don’t even realize how influential J has been to music. But there are some that have loved it and thankfully, had the tapes rolling as well!

Either way, I’ve said this here before so sorry if you’ve seen this already, but if you really like Dave’s bass playing I strongly encourage you to check out some of his other projects. The one that I think most people here would like is his band Acetate. It’s a 3-piece band with a fantastic guitar player named Kevin Sweeney (who is doing sound for the Fog these 2 tours) and is an Athens legend in his own right. And the drummer is Ben Mize who used to be in the Counting Crowes. Together, this band does original garage rock that beats the hell out of anything you would hear in a buddy’s garage. They’ve done one album, it’s self-produced and it’s really, really good shit. They should be recording more in ’05.

Dave is in quite a few other bands as well. He just finished a tour with Stockholm Syndrome, a 5-piece with an amazing songwriter and great guitar player named Jerry Joseph out of Portland. One of my favorite other bands he’s in, who are kinda no more these days, is Brute. A band that was Vic Chesnutt backed musically by WSP. Brute was an incredible band.

If you want to know where to find these albums, drop me a line. The cliche about rock being dead is so far from wrong I tell ya. There is so much good music out there…I can’t contain myself.

Support live music, whatever it is you like!

[Jayne]

I vote yes as well.

For past Fog lineups I only have ’00 to compare to (I think that was the year- the tour with Mike Watt). Seeing this 2nd show last week with this lineup sealed the deal for me. I’m a bit bias here, but I’d like to think I’d admit it if it weren’t the case. These guys just fit together.

[Jayne]

Obviously that smiley face should be an 8. Darn HTML.

[Jayne]

J Mascis & The Fog
Amos’ Southend
Charlotte, NC
11-12-2004

One Set:
01: Out There
02: Freedom
03: Little Fury Things
04: Amma Ring
05: Same Day
06: Set Us Free
07: Thumb
08: Everybody Lets Me Down
09: Budge
10: Mikes House
11: The Lung
12: Freakscene

Encore:
13: The Wagon
14: Sludgefest

Bit torrent: http://digitalpanic.org/btforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2105″>http://digitalpanic.org/btforums/attach … entid=2105

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J. Mascis and the Fog
Lincoln Theatre
Raleigh, NC
November 13, 2004

1) Intro 01:24.29
2) Out There 05:30.54
3) Freedom 04:32.43
4) Set Us Free 06:36.66
5) Same Day 06:26.45
6) Amma Ring 08:26.11
7) Little Fury Things 03:24.64
Everybody Lets Me Down 03:22.51
9) Thumb 07:11.20

1) Budge 03:22.72
2) The Lung 04:53.49
3) Freakscene 03:03.51
4) Alone 13:22.29
—-ENCORE—-
5) Wagon 04:32.67
6) Sludgefeast 09:06.65

Bit torrent: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=9214″>http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=9214

Hopefully someone puts them on freesofree.net.

[Jayne]

I’m listening to it now too. It does sound good. Sloan mixed the soundboard tape with his audience tape and it captures the vocals nicely. I’ll pass along the thanks to him. Hope y’all enjoy…

[Jayne]

"intodeep" wrote:

I forget the drummers name but he is absolutely incredible and adds a lot to the music.

Oh, forgot to answer this. His name is Kyle Spence and yes, he’s quite amazing. I’m not sure how he can bang that hard. His other band is called The Tom Collins and they are a true power trio. http://www.thetomcollins.com

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