Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr. is an American alternative rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1984, originally called simply Dinosaur until legal issues forced a change in name. The band was founded by Murph (drums), J Mascis (guitar, vocals, primary songwriter) and Lou Barlow (bass, vocals), both were former members of punk group Deep Wound. After three albums on independent labels earned the band a reputation as one of the formative influences on American alternative rock, creative tension led to Mascis firing Barlow, who later formed Sebadoh and Folk Implosion. His replacement, Mike Johnson came aboard for three major-label albums. Murph eventually quit, with Mascis taking over drum duties on the band's albums before the group disbanded in 1997. The original lineup reformed in 2005, releasing three albums thereafter. ==Links To Peel== Peel was fan of Dinosaur Jr, who used distorted guitar sounds and vocals that were reminiscent of Neil Young, which Peel admired. The band did three sessions for Peel's show and on 07 October 1990 mentioned that he would even be prepared to pay for bootleg copies of their session:

''There's a piece in the current issue of Sounds about bootlegs, and very interesting it is too. Back in the 70s, when there were lots of Dylan bootlegs and Rolling Stones bootlegs, and I was into that sort of thing, I used to buy 'em, but I rather gave up after that because frankly it just became too expensive, and I couldn't play them on the radio, and I spend too much money on records as it is. I mention this because I saw sessions by the Pixies and Dinosaur Jr., both of them made available on 7 inch EPs which I would like to have been able to buy, but at £8.50 a time...I wasn't prepared to pay that much money, and it is annoying when you know that the money is going to some kind of unscrupulous entrepreneur and not even to the bands themselves, and yet the bands curiously enough, when you say, "Well, why don't we put the stuff out on Strange Fruit and legitimise it in some way?" say they don't want that to be done, so the money goes to bootleggers instead. I know at least one band actually, not one of the ones that I've mentioned, that actually bootlegged their own session, so I suppose in a sense that comes slightly closer to being right. But this isn't a bootleg, that's for sure.''

Festive Fifty Entries

 * 1988 Festive Fifty: Freak Scene #05
 * 1989 Festive Fifty: Just Like Heaven #12
 * 1990 Festive Fifty: The Wagon #29
 * 1993 Festive Fifty: Get Me #42

Sessions
1. Recorded: 1988-11-08. Broadcast: 14 November 1988. Repeated: None 2. Recorded: 1989-04-25. Broadcast: 22 May 1989. Repeated: 20 June 1989 3. Recorded: 1992-11-24. Broadcast: 08 January 1993. Repeated: 17 April 1993
 * Raisans / Does It Float / Leper / Bulbs Of Passion
 * Budge / No Bones / Chunks
 * Noon At Dawn / Get Me / Keeblin / Hide

Other Shows Played
(The following list was compiled only from the database of this site and Lorcan's Tracklistings Archive and is certainly incomplete. Please add further details if known.)

1986 1987
 * Peel 029 (BFBS): 'Repulsion (7")' (Repulsion)
 * 11 August 1987: