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Mascis and enlisted
To promote More Light, Mascis enlisted sometime Dinosaur Jr. drummer George Berz and former Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt.
Around the " Free So Free " tour, Mascis enlisted Kyle Spence on drums and Dave Schools ( from Widespread Panic ) on bass.

Mascis and vocalist
In the early 1980s, J Mascis and Deep Wound vocalist Charlie Nakajima lived in Amherst, MA, and attended the same high school.
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.
It is the first Dinosaur Jr. album not to feature Murph on drums, who is replaced by vocalist and guitarist J. Mascis.

Mascis and Charlie
Although the band already had a singer, Mascis convinced them to replace him with Charlie, and Deep Wound's line-up was complete.
Unexpectedly though, after J Mascis ' set, he returned to the stage on drums and Charlie Nakajima came out to address the crowd.

Mascis and Nakajima
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.
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.

Mascis and also
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.
His style also resembled Neil Young's, but Mascis disputed this, and later commented: " That got annoying, being compared all the time ".
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 ?.
He also performed in a " Hellride East " line-up in New York City in 2000 with Dinosaur Jr .' s J Mascis and Murph on guitar and drums respectively.

Mascis and Deep
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.
While Barlow had played guitar in Deep Wound, he accepted as he was impressed by the material Mascis was creating.
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.
Deep Wound disbanded in 1984 with J Mascis and Lou Barlow going on to form Dinosaur Jr. Barlow later left Dinosaur Jr. and formed Sebadoh, Sentridoh, and Folk Implosion.
J Mascis can often be seen sporting a ' Deep Wound ' sweater ( knitted by his mother ) in Dinosaur Jr. photographs.

Mascis and drummer
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 ( who had started out as a drummer ) recorded many of the drum parts by himself, layering the various instrumental parts through overdubbing.
The record is close to being a J Mascis solo album, with drummer Murph only featuring on three tracks.

Mascis and known
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.

Mascis and Murph
During the recording process, tension emerged between Mascis and Murph because Mascis had very specific ideas for the drum parts.
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.
The single featured a short lived lineup including Don Fleming and Jay Spiegel from the band Gumball, in addition to Mascis and Murph.
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.
Murph left the band after touring for Where You Been, leaving Mascis as the sole remaining original member.
Following the reissues in 2005, Mascis, Barlow and Murph finally reunited to play on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on April 15, 2005, and in June that year, they kicked off a tour of Europe.
Murph said the album was recorded at Mascis ' home and marks return to the heavier, Where You Been LP era.

Mascis and band
Billed as Asheton, Asheton, Mascis and Watt, the band performed sporadically before catching Pop's attention in 2003.
" 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.
" After the album's completion Mascis moved to New York, leaving the rest of the band feeling alienated.
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.
" The Freed Pig ", the opening track on 1991's Sebadoh III, documents Barlow's frustration with Mascis and his poor treatment within the band.
The band included Mike Watt of the Minutemen, J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and Mark Arm of Mudhoney.
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 ".
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.

Mascis and .
In 2000, indie rock veterans J Mascis ( of Dinosaur Jr ) and Mike Watt ( of the Minutemen and fIREHOSE ) teamed up with the Asheton brothers to perform Stooges covers ( and other material ) live.
Frontman J Mascis said, " I like Greg Ginn and stuff, but they wouldn't pay you.
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 2000, Mascis asked Watt to participate in a world tour behind Mascis ' first post-Dinosaur Jr. release, J Mascis and the Fog's More Light.
At several of the shows, Asheton joined Mascis and Watt onstage, wherein the group would play entire sets of Stooges songs.
Mascis ' college friend Gerard Cosloy introduced him to bands like Dream Syndicate, which Mascis in turn showed to Barlow.
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.
Mascis wrote a number of songs by himself and showed them to Barlow, to whom he offered the bassist position.
Mascis explained the concept behind the group as " ear-bleeding country.

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