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There was something different about the resurrection of Dinosaur Jr. even from its abstract beginnings. Before Pavement brought the slacker ethos to its natural, albeit eccentric climax, the reformed hardcore punks J. Mascis and Lou Barlow, along with drummer Murph, sculpted murky, long-range guitar workouts for the laid-back and the incidentally employed. Mascis’ twangy intonation rendered the kind of vocal performance that seemed as surprised as the listener with the craggy and uncompromisingly melodic. Not unlike the generation of grunge bands it inspired, it never seemed meant to last. Well-beloved but critically understated in general...
...year and they started to pitch her up and out. We knew that so we said, ‘Let’s move her down so she can get better pitches and let’s move both our freshman, whose bats are hot, up behind Murph.’ And it worked...
...here. I played for ‘the Murph.’ I want to make this a place where Harvard People feel comfortable,” Newell said...
...band was founded in 1983 in Amherst, MA. J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Emmett Patrick Murphy (“Murph”) came together as Dinosaur, adopting junior status later due to copyright issues. J and Lou, who had recently broken up their hardcore band Deep Wound, picked up Murph as a drummer, allowing J to emerge from behind the drum kit and to take up lead guitar and vocals. J’s professed love for Neil Young and accomplished songwriting almost single-handedly revived the guitar solo in punk rock, one of the reasons for Dinosaur...
...throwing for touchdowns,” Byrnes says. “Hopefully Coach Murph can work it in there and I can throw a touchdown—and maybe even get a couple of carries...