J Mascis

J Mascis (Joseph Donald Mascis, Jr.; December 10, 1965) is an American musician, best known as the singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr.. He has also released several albums as a solo artist and played drums and guitar on other projects. He was ranked number 86 in a Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists", and number 5 in a similar list for Spin magazine in 2012.

Links To Peel
Peel was generally a fan of Dinosaur Jr. and followed J Mascis's music when he initially disbanded the group in 1998 and formed the J Mascis + The Fog group. During their first European tour in 2000, J Mascis + The Fog participated in a John Peel session for BBC Radio 1, during which the band recorded a medley consisting of Teenage Fanclub's "Everything Flows", Pavement's "Range Life", and The Ruts' "In a Rut", that was broadcast on 19 December 2000, to celebrate 25 years of the Festive Fifty. This session is the only commercially available studio recording of the 2000–2001 line-up featuring Watt, and, along with a later J Mascis solo session from 2002, was released on CD by the Strange Fruit label in 2003.

Sessions
All sessions are available on The John Peel Sessions (2003, CD, Strange Fruit)

1. Recorded: 2000-12-13. Broadcast: 10 January 2001. Repeated: 03 May 2001 2. Recorded: 2002-11-20. Broadcast: 28 November 2002
 * Same Day / Ammaring / Waistin / I'm Not Fine
 * I Feel Like Going Home / Alone / Everybody Lets Me Down / Freakscene

Other Shows Played
2000 2003
 * 19 December 2000: Everything Flows / Range Life / In A Rut (medley)
 * 26 August 2003: Freakscene (CD - The John Peel Sessions) Sanctuary