Looking back on the off-the-wall gene-riding journey that was Dinosaur Jr.’s 1985 debut, Dinosaur, bandleader and guitarist J Mascis, in his usual monotone shrug, says, “I was just learning guitar. I picked it up to write songs and start a band, so whatever I was writing… that’s all I could play, pretty much.”
Dinosaur, despite its seeming lack of structure and virtuosity, wasn’t without a guiding light – even if Mascis essentially stumbled upon it.
