Damn, I didn't believe this at first. But I guess in their middle age Lou Barlow and J. Mascis have let the water under the bridge.

I'm going to this if I have to crawl there. Early DJR w/Barlow on bass were almost as much an influence on me as Venom.

Your Band Sucks: Indie Goes Broke

Pretty much sums it all up.

well, I agree with MOST of what he's sayin' there

but some of us kids never got to see these bands first time around

for the record, I've always loathed R.E.M.

the fact that Lou and J are in the same place at the same time astounds me. In "Our Band Could Be Your Life" Lou calls J Mascis pretty much the worst human being he'd ever met and attributes him to all his life's problems. So it's pretty neat they could reconcile.

Lou and Cronos are big bass influences on me, so that's the main reason I wanna check it out

OBCBYL is a great book, I read it when I was bedridden with Chicken Pox

yea but it said Husker Du was lightning fast. Maybe for back then, but I just heard them for like the second time in my life and it wasn't very fast....not as fast as, say, Brutal Truth or somethin'

I wanna check out the Minutemen, I've actually never heard 'em

I like the chapter on Big Black and Rapeman

i like dinosaur sr. a lot better. dinosaur jr. never quite lived up to his father's accomplishments, but that's just my opinion. what do i know anyway?