i DJed the Dino show last night at the bar around the corner. So much fun. Capacity: 99 people. It was the perfect amount of loud actually. I thought it might be sickening. But it was human loud. Sounded fucking incredible. Such an amazing set. And I rocked the crowd with aplomb and with the aid of Pabst between sets. (PG Six and J's brother's band the opening acts)
https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/29314474_10156731921192137_7093616316959546475_n.jpg?oh=3a45fd30001af9f5025b140afaa75ed9&oe=5B301129
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― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
Right on! This was my shot of the monolith from orbit last year.
https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17353519_1911307172436961_4491324615395026685_n.jpg?oh=1da72778d6e930c6c6e9405ba9be7c2e&oe=5B349560
― earlnash, Saturday, 17 March 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
does the vomit doll have a name? i was and remain a decent a Dino Jr fan but not obsessive enough to know the name of that doll. it reminds me of the enormous baby from The Kingdom
sounds like a fun night too.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 March 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
awesome scott :)
this is solid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMa-JuMfLzA
― tinnitus the night (Ross), Saturday, 17 March 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
i can't say that i have been a superfan thru the years. i really liked the song "repulsion" in the 80s but i didn't buy the first two records. one of the reasons i bought Bug when it came out was because i really loved the album cover. i bought the just like heaven 12-inch. but didn't follow them or sebadoh at all in the 90s. the first time i really ever heard sebadoh was when my brother was opening for them at the troc in philly and i got to dance on stage dressed as a witch. i did see dinosaur at the height of grungemania in a skating rink in connecticut and it was one of the most cavernous things i have ever heard. that would have been them touring green mind.
my kid, rufus, got to be there last night too. he loves J.
― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
this was just ridiculously fun the other night. gloriously loud. nothing but neil all night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2RcNI2pL88
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dyVLtVVHG8
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
that's amazing
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 13:36 (six years ago) link
seriously!
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
The first time I ever heard of NY's On The Beach was J lamenting about its unavailability on CD in an issue of Melody Maker circa 92
― Total Goat Rodeo (stevie), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
have they been touring with an extra guitarist?
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
no, dino is just the trio. this was a one night only thing with matt valentine and john moloney and adam from sore eros and a guy on bass from....i can't remember what bands. he roadies for dino. he was great.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
this is from the dino show at the local bar this year. also a wonderful night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2UuYbgZtzI
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
seeing J. with two other good guitarists was so cool though. such a great sound live.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
yeah, J does a lot of overdubs in the reunion-era songs, so sometimes the long solo sections can sound slightly thin live. perhaps they've figured it out in the years since I saw them last.
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
BTW I saw Dino play six months ago and the guitar tech guy played some guitar during the gig. He didn't come out from over behind Lou's amps, but you could still see he to the side a bit. He faced the front from what I remember, it didn't look like they were hiding him, just he didn't leave his roadie area
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
actually this explains it betterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D79DSyg8eyg
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
i think they do double drums with john moloney during the wagon too sometimes. he roadies for them as well.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
when dino played at the bar beforehand i was scared that j's stacks would kill me but they totally made it the perfect kind of loud for that show. there was a lot of family there. they didn't want to liquify anyone. still plenty loud though!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
Saw them last night, and they sounded great.
Literally knew only one song of theirs before yesterday, from a mixtape someone made me long ago. But now I've been listening to that song (not played last night) over and over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-2o-qQk_EU
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
Ha I was reading your comment PaulTMA and thinking of that gig as evidence, and then I saw you posted the vid which I'm pretty sure I'm in
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
def saw them at Maxwells ('88?) when they didn't have the "Jr"
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
Their cover of just like heaven slays
― No angel came (Ross), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
Absolutely Ross, love the random cut too
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
Yeah!
― No angel came (Ross), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
I consumed an awful lot of US indie rock as a schoolkid at the turn of the nineties and I'm increasingly thinking D.Jr stand up better than anything else I bought at the time. I didn't anticipate this. I largely tuned out after Where You Been, but the overwhelming bulk of their output to that point is good-to-great. Even Green Mind is at least 60% decent. I'm very gradually absorbing the post-reunion records...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 21 July 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
I mean they put out a lot of stuff, and for a few albums were getting increasingly better then j/they kinda fizzled out no?
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 21 July 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link
I loved Bug and YLAOM the most but 'lost track' of them when the re-recorded The Wagon wasn't as good as the Sub-Pop single. I guess they have made some other good albums.
J Mascis And The Fog (with Ron Asheton) live was better than any Dinosaur Jr. gig I'd seen.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Saturday, 21 July 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
Well I mean yeah. It’s fuckin Ron Asheton.I’ve seen Dino Jr maybe like three times and it was always good. Friend of mine said he saw them once and J would hit THAT pedal and things went into totally painful/nauseating levels of tone and volume. Didn’t experience that for better or worse.
― circa1916, Saturday, 21 July 2018 05:42 (five years ago) link
Are there many better “reunion” albums than Beyond?
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Saturday, 21 July 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
I think the most recent one is really, really great.
― Arthur Funzonerelli (stevie), Saturday, 21 July 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/a-25-year-old-dinosaur-jr-song-is-a-hit-in-japan-nobody-knows-why/
good for the Dinos, time to book Budokan
― sun-kil moonsician (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 February 2019 19:50 (five years ago) link
That’s really weird
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 8 February 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
Does anyone from Pitchfork post here? It's the background music for the credits of "Gachinko Fight Club" on TBS.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 February 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
I think you could email them that
― Evan, Friday, 8 February 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
i emailed a correction to an Unthanks review once and they never replied but they did fix it pretty quickly.
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Friday, 8 February 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
congrats to up and coming SoundCloud rapper D1NO$$$AUR JR.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 February 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link
ha this is a great story! I don't even know that song though
― calumy (rip van wanko), Saturday, 9 February 2019 04:54 (five years ago) link
Pitchfork has updated to mention Gachinko Fight Club, citing this tweet:
I know the answer @pitchfork .A linkage this song with Japan is obvious. “Over Your Shoulder” was used in popular TV show called “Gachinko Fight Club” hosted by TOKIO, famous male band/talents. On Feb. 6th, TOKIO’s current TV show “TOKIO KAKERU” seems picked up former member of https://t.co/DfBD7xCYEU— 鈴木貴歩 #EnterTechの提唱者 (@SuzukiTaka) February 8, 2019
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 February 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link
(Annoyingly, the P4k article still says "Nobody knows why! The answer isn't obvious at all!" while acknowledging "Oh yeah, some people have said it's this TV show.")
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 February 2019 05:59 (five years ago) link
(that's the magic of editing their posts after publishing)
Here's the clip if anyone's interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zMIXtjk6Do&feature=youtu.be&t=759
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 9 February 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
oh shit, forgot this embed code hates timestamps, c/p:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zMIXtjk6Do&t=759
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 9 February 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
So did the TV show inspire viewers to seek out the original song; or is it charting simply due to being played in background of that widely-streamed scene (and machine-recognized for copyright/royalties purposes)?
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Saturday, 9 February 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
It was a very dramatic moment to a memorable scene and it brought back a lot of memories for people who watched it the first time around. The replay went viral on ameblo & FC2 blogs, plus there are a ton of Youtube comments asking for the ID on various clips, also on Yahoo.jp chiebukuro (like Yahoo! answers but less babbies formed & more utility).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 9 February 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
It’s a pretty beautiful song.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 9 February 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
I've been listening to Dinosaur Jr. quite a bit lately. They were sort of a second tier interest to me when I was a teenager, but for some reason I've been enjoying returning to them more than many other bands from that era.
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 9 February 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
the P4k article still says "Nobody knows why! The answer isn't obvious at all!"
The world is a very confusing country
― sbahnhof, Monday, 11 February 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
"They Always Come" is such a great song... but then around halfway through it morphs into this even better song. Feel like Bug is so much better than I remember everytime I throw it on.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 04:17 (four years ago) link
yeah that's my favorite one
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 05:30 (four years ago) link
Heh I wouldn't say I like it more than YLAOM, but Bug feels super-slept on in comparison. The highs on Bug (for me: "They Always Come" & "No Bones" esp.) are as high as any of their albums. Not sure how dictator-y J was by this point but both Lou & Murph's performances are incredible.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 6 March 2020 01:00 (four years ago) link