OFF: JMascis (was: Re: More Best of 1997)

[Douglas Pearson]

Jon Browne wrote:

>In article <3.0.2.32.19971217221412.0308a628 at online.no>,
>cannibal at CUTEY.COM writes:

[...big snip of interesting points by both...]

>>>Big Bummer - Dinasaur Jr. split.
>>
>>Oh, c'mon, they/he ceased being a real band years ago anyway and had
>>just been
>>treading MTV waters in vain ever since the Brief Grunge Age flooded all
>>those
>>bands up the charts, and letting most get washed so far back down on
>>their
>>asses they never got back up... I mean, J. Mascis playing golf to a
>>slow
>>booooring song >sigh<!!! (theo? need a new caddie? Look up "J. Mascis"
>>in
>>Massachusetts.)>#
>
>
>J.Mascis is the most influencial guitarist of his generation and you can
>lay grunge entirely at his door. No Dinosaur, No Nirvana, Tad, Mudhoney
>etc

No! No! No!  Not true at all.  When the first Dinosaur (pre-jr.) album came
out on Homestead (after a considerable amount of pre-release hype),
EVERYONE said, about his guitar playing, "Neil Young meets Sonic Youth" (if
I were to dig through my old issues of 'Forced Exposure' and 'Conflict' I'm
sure I could find some quotes to verify this).  SY had been releasing
albums for about 5 years at that point, and the first Green River EP
(pre-Mudhoney / Pearl Jam band, also on Homestead) came out right around
the same time, with Steve Turner's guitar playing sounding not particularly
different from the way it would 5 years later when grunge "broke", so you
certainly can't say that there would have been "No Mudhoney" without Dino
jr.  Same with Nirvana, really ... their biggest influence was the Melvins,
who were around when J & Lou were still in Deep Wound.  Chris is definitely
correct about "No Dino jr." without SY & Husker Du ...

Wow, 1987 was a long time ago ...

        -Doug
         ceres at sirius.com