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

[Jon Browne]

In article <199712182118.NAA17969 at proxy3.ba.best.com>, Douglas Pearson
<ceres at SIRIUS.COM> writes
>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"

That would make J. a genius then already, No?
>(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,

Very true, but compare "Sex is Confusion" to "Goo"
>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.

No, OK fair enough, but they would have developed quite differently. And
might even still be around :)
> Same with Nirvana, really ... their biggest influence was the Melvins,
>who were around when J & Lou were still in Deep Wound.

Again, I accept this.
>Chris is definitely
>correct about "No Dino jr." without SY & Husker Du ...

Absolutely true, but the bands I cited would have sounded a little
different. Anyway, I'm only basing my opinion on a bunch of interviews
where a bunch of these guys cite J. as their ax hero. Thurston Moore
especially.  But yes, of course I accept that most of these guys were
playing already. It's his playing style rather than song-writing I feel
was influential, and when I said "of his generation" I should have been
more specific. I meant among his contemporaries, rather than the lasting
influence that Thurston or Kurt have had.
>
>Wow, 1987 was a long time ago ...

Well, yes and no :-P

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Jon Browne