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| Carl |
Posted - 12/08/2005 : 06:21:22
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/12/07/dinosaur_jr_proves_a_blast_from_the_past/
Dinosaur Jr. proves a blast from the past
By Jonathan Perry, Globe Correspondent | December 7, 2005
CAMBRIDGE -- ''This show tonight will produce sound levels at very high decibels."
Maybe it was meant as fair warning or a deterrent, but to the near-capacity crowd that packed the downstairs room at the Middle East Monday night to hear Dinosaur Jr. slash and burn through its back catalog, the sign posted outside the entrance read like a giddy promise.
Since reuniting earlier this year after more than a decade of animosity and silence between two of its principal members, guitarist J Mascis and bassist Lou Barlow, Dinosaur Jr. has torn a page from the Pixies playbook, performing for sold-out audiences that might have missed the band the first time around, and revisiting a legacy that helped lay the foundation for the punk-metal sprawl called grunge.
During the second of two shows here, both of which were filmed and recorded for a planned live DVD (also a la the Pixies), the original trio with Murph on drums sounded as if there had been no layoff whatsoever, or bad blood between them. The only hint of their absence came in the palpable sense that with every blitzkrieg guitar solo, rubbery bass run, or pummeling of drums, the band was making up for lost time. With a wall of Marshall amplifiers stacked high and at his disposal, Mascis, a reluctant and famously nonverbal guitar hero of the first order, found fresh, screaming avenues to explore within material culled solely from the original lineup's first three albums. He even seemed to surprise himself, and certainly the audience, many of whom had already left when, after the 90-minute show, the band returned to the stage for an unplanned second encore (''In a Jar").
Anchored by Barlow's sinewy bass runs and Murph's dependable assault, Mascis didn't just revisit ''Gargoyle," ''Kracked," and ''Bulbs of Passion," the string of old faves that kicked the concert into gear. He pilloried them with precision, wrenching them from the boxy confines of melody and blasting them outward toward freedom.
Mascis's wild and woolly guitar playing stood -- as it always has -- in stark contrast to his sleepily laconic vocal style, which felt more like a verbal shrug of the shoulders than actual singing. Barlow took over lead vocal chores for a few songs, but was quickly drowned out by the tornado roaring through the room. No one, not even Barlow, seemed to mind.
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| chineselover |
Posted - 12/11/2005 : 05:31:03
The fort Apache one quite interseting. I suppose for the 'Pixies mentioned' news articles, would to be post them all in the same thread with a general heading, rather that a seperate theread for each. |
| Carl |
Posted - 12/09/2005 : 15:56:11
Interesting.
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| mrgrieves1971 |
Posted - 12/09/2005 : 11:54:47
Fort Apache holds Christmas parties, and in one from 1988 J Mascis from Dinosaur Jnr played a version of Gigantic with Kim and David. It’s no patch on the Pixies versions.
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/drumandbass/1266/fortapache.htm |
| Carl |
Posted - 12/09/2005 : 07:36:43
I did not know that.
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| mrgrieves1971 |
Posted - 12/09/2005 : 07:32:27
Dinosaur, Jr., I am a fan of the Pixies. I own Pixies albums. I have even seen the Pixies live. Dinosaur, Jr., you're no Pixies.
Although J. Mascis did play Gigantic with Kim and Dave at the 1988 Christmas party at Fort Apache. |
| Carl |
Posted - 12/09/2005 : 06:20:51
I was kinda thinking that people would be interested to read a Dino reunion gig review too, I was actually thinking of posting this in General Chat.
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| TrickyRichard |
Posted - 12/08/2005 : 20:22:27
little mentions aren't really a big deal. Dont feel bad about the news thread being largely empty just because there's no news,you have to let it come. Everyone knows the fab four are a big influence on the indie scene and it shouldn't be abnormal to hear about them in the press. |
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