Mosaic Music Festival 2010
Dinosaur Jr.
16 Mar 10 (Tue)
8pm
Esplanade Theatre
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"Dinosaur Jr. set the standard for convulsive
indie-rock guitar fireworks in the Eighties. Incredibly, the band's
original lineup - guitarist J Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow and
drummer Murph - hasn't lost a thunderous step." – Rolling
Stone magazine
They were the alt-rock pioneers of their day, their
simple alt-rock-folk-country songs spiked with massive amounts of
guitar noise, a quiet-loud dynamic, metal riffs, long, wild lead
solos and nasal drone. Despite their famous apathy, they became a
cult phenomenon, their sludgy, noise-drenched sound influencing
bands like Nirvana and Pixies and sparking the grunge revolution of
the early 90s. They are Dinosaur Jr., slacker revolutionaries of a
new crushingly loud sound and underdog heroes of the American indie
underground.
In the beginning, in the mid-80's, Lou Barlow held down the
bass, Murph joined as drummer and J switched from playing the drums
to playing the guitar. He played the guitar in a style that
emulated the way he played the drums thus giving birth to his
decibel-defying guitar sound.
Between 1985 and 1997, they released seven milestone albums, the
earliest of which saw them launching into the freeform noise and
unrestrained yet melodic solos which earned them a loyal following.
In that time, around 1989, the original parties of Mascis and
Barlow parted ways: Barlow finding success with Sebadoh, and Mascis
enjoying further success throughout the early nineties with
Dinosaur Jr - and a succession of bass players - before finally
embarking on a solo career.
Then in 2007, almost 20 years after they had parted ways
un-amicably, they shocked oldtime fans – who might have given their
ratty flannel shirts to the Salvation Army long ago but had not
forgotten – with the release of a new album Beyond. Going
beyond being a throwback album, Beyond was what
NME critics called “a genuine monster”, picking up from
where the original three had left off two decades ago and, this
time, delivering the goods with an even tighter cohesion and
dynamism.
Two years later, deep in the heart of Amherst, Massachusetts,
past the apple farms, hiking trails, farmers’ markets, college
campuses, New England homesteads, vintage guitar stores and hay
rides, all three huddled in the cosy warren of J Mascis’ home
studio, set up mics, plugged in the fuzz boxes, and recorded to Pro
Tools yet another bunch of songs that harked back to the day when
they hated one another’s guts and made fuzzed-out alt-rock the
rage.
The result, 2009’s Farm, has since become their most
critically-lauded effort since 1988's breakthrough effort,
Bug. Farm captures the energy of a band 20 years
their junior and with majestic solos, tightly-locked-in rhythms,
fantastic songwriting and furious shredfests, shows the band to be
in better form than ever.
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