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So I saw Dinosaur Jr. last night.
Jackie Blue:
It was better than I expected. Still nothing mindblowing. J Mascis looked half-asleep even when he was laying down heavy guitar shred. Lou Barlow was animated and rocked the house. J kept scowling at Lou, sometimes between songs like "Are you ready to play the song yet, jerkface?" and sometimes during the songs as if to say "Stop making me look like an old man with your jumping around and getting into it and non-grey hair".
They only played just over an hour, including encore, which I thought was a bit of a piss-take for a show that was totally packed (though 90% of the crowd clearly had no idea who Dinosaur Jr. was; the show was at a new venue and they basically gave away around 300 tickets for free so there were a fuckton of 18-19 year old Scene Kids just sort of hanging out hoping someone would buy them a beer).
Also, LOL @ lame two-song encore, second song of which was "Just Like Heaven".
All in all, I'd much rather have seen Sebadoh, because they were always so much better than Dino Jr., but it did rock pretty well for a milking-it reunion deal. Much better than the Pixies reunion shows.
Also, their new t-shirts are fucking rad.
Johnny C:
I dunno how much "milking it" is motivation for the tour. The new album is fucking ace.
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 30 Nov 2007, 13:01 ---Frankly, I think they milked a whole career off one really incredible album.
I'll bet the new album is 'okay', in the same way everything not YLAOM was 'okay'.
--- End quote ---
My sentiments exactly.
Wayfaring Stranger:
Sorry to change the subject, but the short encore thing pisses me off too. I saw Iron & Wine the other night, and he only played one song for the encore. It was a damn good one song, but it's a lot of clapping and yelling to get someone out for one song.
carrotosaurus:
Why does every single band have to do an encore?
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