Mascis wrote all of the songs.

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.

At several of the shows, Asheton joined Mascis and Watt onstage, wherein the group would play entire sets of Stooges songs.

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 ".

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.

All songs written by J Mascis.

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 ?.

All songs written by J Mascis, except where noted.

All songs by J Mascis.

All songs written by J Mascis.

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

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.

Mascis ( who had started out as a drummer ) recorded many of the drum parts by himself, layering the various instrumental parts through overdubbing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Mascis ' college friend Gerard Cosloy introduced him to bands like Dream Syndicate, which Mascis in turn showed to Barlow.

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

Mascis suffered minor back injuries but rebounded from them fairly quickly and began work on the second J Mascis + The Fog album, Free So Free, released in 2002.

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 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.

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.

" The trio named themselves Dinosaur, and Mascis and Barlow took over lead vocal duties.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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