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J Mascis: 10 albums that changed my life – “The Stooges was definitely my guitar sound inspiration. That’s still the best sound I’ve heard for guitar on a recording” (2024)

Related Topics: J Mascis, Dinosaur Jr., Ian Paice

By Jonathan Horsley

published 7 April 2023

The Dinosaur Jr frontman picks the albums that took him from a young drummer under Ian Paice's spell to pioneer of US alt-rock, and warns of the danger of the pastel-coloured sports jacket

J Mascis is unsure whether he wrote and recorded Heavy Blanket’s sophomore long-player, Moon Is, as a therapeutic, a tonic administered via electric guitars that have been pushed into warm sympathetic frequencies and heated under the hot lamp of overdrive and fuzz.

When asked if that was the intention he takes a beat before confessing that, really, he hasn’t given it much thought.