The new record was virtually a J. Mascis solo album, with Murph playing drums on only a few songs, as well as minimal contributions from Fleming and Spiegel, who were out of the band by the time the album was released.

In 2002, the two shared the stage for two shows in London, with Barlow singing I Wanna Be Your Dog along with Mascis, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton and Mike Watt, who had been performing Stooges songs as " Asheton, Asheton, Mascis and Watt ".

Artists who have performed at Losers Lounge shows include Paul Williams, J Mascis, Sean Altman, John Flansburgh, April March, Ronnie Spector, Debbie Harry, Alice Cohen, Richard Barone, J. G. Thirlwell, Brian Dewan, Carol Jacobanis, and Cyndi Lauper.

It is the first Dinosaur Jr. album not to feature Murph on drums, who is replaced by vocalist and guitarist J. Mascis.

Mascis and Barlow had previously played together in a hardcore punk band called Deep Wound, formed in 1982 while the pair were attending high school in western Massachusetts.

Cosloy had dropped out of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to focus on running his independent record label, Homestead Records, and promised Mascis that if he were to make a record Homestead would release it.

While Barlow had played guitar in Deep Wound, he accepted as he was impressed by the material Mascis was creating.

During the recording process, tension emerged between Mascis and Murph because Mascis had very specific ideas for the drum parts.

While Mascis ' guitar, voice and songwriting ensured that the album had its share of the band's old sound, it was much quieter and more layered, with more use of keyboards and acoustic guitar, and with a noticeable lack of the power-trio roar that the original lineup had been known for.

Later that year, he and Barlow shared the stage at benefit show for autism at Smith College organized by Barlow's mother in Northampton, Massachusetts, and played together as Deep Wound after Mascis and Sebadoh had completed their respective sets.

Although the band already had a singer, Mascis convinced them to replace him with Charlie, and Deep Wound's line-up was complete.

Mascis had worked with Watt several times before-most notably producing the final fIREHOSE album Mr. Machinery Operator ( 1993 ), on which he also contributed some guitar and vocal parts, and contributing guitar and drum performances to several songs on Watt's first solo album Ball-Hog or Tugboat ?.

In 2005, Mascis put his Fog project on hold in order to tend to other business, mainly the reformation of the original Dinosaur Jr. lineup, to coincide with the re-release on the Merge label of the first three Dinosaur Jr. albums that had previously been on Homestead and SST.

The tour was a short one by Watt standards ( not even two months ) because Watt had another commitment impending-playing as a member of J Mascis and the Fog on the former Dinosaur Jr frontman's first solo tour.

The group's first tour ( dubbed the " Time To Cat And Not Mouse " tour, since Watt had just finished touring, or " sidemousing " as he calls it, as a member of J Mascis and the Fog ) in the fall of 2001 was originally scheduled to start on September 11, 2001 ; Watt was in the process of leaving his apartment to pick up Trebotic and Watson when one of his friends called him and told him to turn on the news ; the night's opening date in San Francisco was postponed until the end of the tour, and Watt would perform each night's show on the tour wearing dark sunglasses in memory of the victims of the 9 / 11 attacks.

The beginnings of a Mascis / Barlow détente started in the mid -' 90s when Mascis began showing up at Sebadoh shows.

A few days later Mascis called Barlow and Murph to form a new band without telling Nakajima ; " I was kind of too wimpy to kick him out, exactly ," Mascis later admitted, and explained, " Communicating with people has been a constant problem in the band.

Despite the album's success, tension between Mascis and Barlow began interfering with the band's productivity, and in 1989, after touring in support of Bug, Barlow was kicked out of the band.

Unexpectedly though, after J Mascis ' set, he returned to the stage on drums and Charlie Nakajima came out to address the crowd.

Initially unable to play his bass, he rebuilt his strength with intense woodshedding and practice as well as live club gigs where he performed sets of Stooges covers with Hellride in California and with J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr. drummer Murph in New York under the name Hellride East.

Watt and Mascis later joined Asheton and his brother, Stooges drummer Scott Asheton, for a one-time-only performance at a Belgian festival under the name Asheton, Asheton, Mascis & Watt.

Since disbanding, Mike Watt has released four solo albums and been involved in numerous musical projects including the longstanding bass duo, Dos ( with ex-Black Flag bassist and wife, Kira Roessler ), Banyan ( with Jane's Addiction drummer, Stephen Perkins ), Jay Mascis and the Fog, the Stooges and the Unknown Instructors ( along with George Hurley ).

Guitarist J Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow, and drummer Murph are the band's founding and current members ; Mascis has been the group's sole continuous member.

" Mascis enlisted vocalist Charlie Nakajima, also formerly of Deep Wound, and drummer Emmett Patrick Murphy, otherwise known as Murph, to complete the band.

To promote More Light, Mascis enlisted sometime Dinosaur Jr. drummer George Berz and former Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt.

The record is close to being a J Mascis solo album, with drummer Murph only featuring on three tracks.

Mascis took Cosloy up on his offer to release an album and Dinosaur recorded their debut album for $ 500 at a home studio in the woods outside Northampton, Massachusetts.

However, the band's subsequent albums would be recorded mostly by J Mascis on his own, playing everything except for the bass and some of the harmony vocals, which continued to be handled by Mike Johnson.

Murph said the album was recorded at Mascis ' home and marks return to the heavier, Where You Been LP era.

During their first European tour, J Mascis + The Fog participated in a John Peel session for BBC Radio 1, during which the band recorded a medley consisting of Teenage Fanclub's " Everything Flows ", Pavement's " Range Life ", and The Ruts ' " In a Rut ".

His first album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat ?, featured appearances from dozens of musicians ( many were Watt's peers from the 1980s SST era ), including Henry Rollins, Eddie Vedder, J Mascis, Carla Bozulich, Evan Dando, members of Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Black, Nirvana, Soul Asylum, Jane's Addiction, the Beastie Boys and the Screaming Trees.

In addition, Mascis was also a fan of many punk and hardcore bands such as The Birthday Party, and has frequently noted Nick Cave as an influence.

Users of Analog Man's modified Tube Screamers have included Buckethead, Trey Anastasio, Tony Iommi, Metallica, Page Hamilton, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Scott Henderson, Jimmy Herring, J Mascis, Jack White, Dan Auerbach, Andy Powell, among many others.

Mascis was exhibiting an even tighter control over the band's sound, singing lead vocals on all but one song and composing the parts for Murph and Lou to play.

For touring purposes, Mascis first added Van Conner, and then Mike Johnson to handle the bass parts and embarked on several tours to support Green Mind, with support acts that included Nirvana.

Mascis wrote a number of songs by himself and showed them to Barlow, to whom he offered the bassist position.

Nakajima went into an anti-cop rant during the performance, and Mascis was so appalled by his behavior at the show that he disbanded the group the next day.

Some of the singing was done by Mascis in his trademark nasal drawl, often compared with Neil Young, but the majority of the lead vocals were by Lou Barlow.

" Gerard Cosloy was excited by the completed album, but was devastated when Mascis told him the band was going to release it on SST Records.

While both Barlow and leader J Mascis wrote songs, Mascis ' material dominated the group's output because Barlow was intimidated by the guitarist's songwriting efforts.

Mascis responded to the ad and was driven by his father to Lou Barlow's place in Westfield, MA for an audition.

J Mascis can often be seen sporting a ' Deep Wound ' sweater ( knitted by his mother ) in Dinosaur Jr. photographs.

All songs written by J Mascis.

J Mascis + The Fog is the post-Dinosaur Jr musical project embarked by Dinosaur Jr's founding member, musician J Mascis.

Recording 99 % of the instruments on the recordings, he emerged from the studio with the first J Mascis + The Fog album, More Light, an album title inspired by Mascis's growing interest in " hugging saint " Ammachi.

This session is the only commercially available studio recording of the 2000 – 2001 line-up featuring Watt, and, along with a later J Mascis solo session from 2002, was released on CD by the Strange Fruit label in 2003.

At some of the tour dates, the band were frequently joined onstage by former Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton, during which time Mascis and The Fog would play several Stooges classics.

The Gillespie incident notwithstanding, these appearances by Asheton later led to a one-time supergroup of Mascis, Watt, Asheton, and Ron's brother and fellow Stooge Scott Asheton, which led to the reformation of the Stooges themselves with vocalist Iggy Pop and Watt replacing the late original Stooges bassist Dave Alexander.

All songs written by J Mascis, except where noted.

All songs by J Mascis.