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.

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.

Mascis regained the master rights to the band's first three albums from SST in 2004, and arranged for their reissue on Merge early 2005.

His drawl epitomised the band's slacker ethos and relaxed attitude ; author Michael Azerrad said " even Mascis seemed removed from the feelings he was conveying in the music ".

Already after the release of the debut album, Come received praise from Dinosaur Jr .' s lead singer J. Mascis, Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould, and Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain.

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.

Around the " Free So Free " tour, Mascis enlisted Kyle Spence on drums and Dave Schools ( from Widespread Panic ) on bass.

Other musicians may take time from their own bands to tour or record as a sideman for another artist, such as Mike Watt with J Mascis and the Fog or Iggy and the Stooges.

Bredbury passed from the hands of Sir Richard de Vernon to the Mascis of Dunham, under whom it was held by the Fitz-Waltheofs of Stockport.

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

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

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

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 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.

Mascis would sing most or all of the lead vocals on all of their subsequent releases.

" 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.

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 Freed Pig ", the opening track on 1991's Sebadoh III, documents Barlow's frustration with Mascis and his poor treatment within the band.

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.

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.

After 1997's Hand It Over, Mascis finally retired the Dinosaur Jr. name, with the group's final live performance being an appearance on the American talk show The Jenny Jones Show.

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.

This included the influence of classic rock on the band's music, their use of feedback, extreme volume and the loud-quiet dynamic, and frontman Mascis ' droning vocals.

When the master tape of You're Living All Over Me arrived at SST, the label's production manager noticed the level on the tape was so high it was distorting ; however, Mascis confirmed it was the way he wanted the album to sound.

Martsch has cited Dinosaur Jr .' s J Mascis ' style of heavy, catchy guitar hooks as an influence on what has come to be Built to Spill's call sign.

Shields has produced and played on Dinosaur Jr's Hand It Over ( along with Bilinda Butcher contributing vocals ) and on J Mascis and the Fog's More Light.

Slade let Farrar play on the same 1961 Gibson Les Paul SG Junior that J. Mascis originally played on Bug.

J Mascis, Nels Cline, Tom Verlaine, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo ( of Sonic Youth ) all performed at the " Jazzmaster 50th Anniversary Concert " at the Knitting Factory in New York on September 12, 2008.

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.

In April 2004, Sonic Youth played a show at John Green Hall on the Smith College campus in Northampton MA with J Mascis and Sebadoh as the opening acts and the anticipation was that the two would reunite for a few Dinosaur Jr. songs.

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

During Dinosaur's major label years, Mascis performed most of the instruments himself on record.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1999, Mascis released the first of two solo albums under the name J Mascis and the Fog.

* Official J. Mascis site

* Interview with J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., 2005

His influences include J Mascis, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Caustic Resin, Mississippi Fred McDowell, David Bowie, and Neil Young.

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.

They collaborated with bands such as The Bravery, The Kooks, Dinosaur Jr .' s J Mascis and Spoon.

It is prone to psychedelic swells, acoustic jangles and features a cast of friends and associates ( including Dinosaur Jr .' s J Mascis and Canadian rock icon Tom Cochrane ) playing and singing and handclapping along.

* J Mascis

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