Dinosaur Jr. - J Mascis Live at CBGB's: The First Acoustic Show

"My first ever acoustic performance, and I'm a little freaked out." With those words, then-Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis kicked off the show on this live set (recorded in December 1993), in which the man who'd made his name with bludgeoning volume and über-heavy electric guitar freakouts quietly stripped his songs down to their framework for an evening. While Mascis would get more comfortable with such things over the passage of time (as evidenced on his 1996 album Martin + Me), for a first-time gig in an unfamiliar format, Live At Cbgb's sounds surprisingly confident and coherent. Read More