Catching Up On Rocktober (Continued)

We didn't catch the Bowery Ballroom set, but this is pretty close to how it went down at Terminal West back on October 2.

J Mascis at Terminal West, Atlanta, October 3, 2014

Rocktober continues.  Last night, it was Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis performing a solo set at Terminal West.  But first, Luluc opened.  

I first heard Brooklyn-by-way-of-Australia's Luluc this summer, and was looking forward to hearing them live.  I've previously posted a song of theirs here, and here's a video of them performing that song live.

I had imagined a fuller band based on the few recorded songs that I've heard, but the duo of Zoe and Steve performed just fine as, well, a duo,  It was their first appearance in Atlanta, and the audience seemed to appreciate them as much as I.    

Zoe announced that this was Day 4 of their tour with J Mascis.  My unreliable cell phone camera was being even more unreliable than usual and most of the few photos that I did take managed to somehow get corrupted in storage, so instead of posting my own pictures, here's a great pic from Luluc's Facebook page of Zoe and J.

After a long break following Luluc's set, Mascis strolled onto the stage, sat down, looked around, and then strolled back off to fetch his beverages for the set.  Once be did settle in, though, he treated the audience to a magnificent set of solo tunes.

The set couldn't have been more casual,  J only muttered a few words of stage banter, but instead treated the audience to the kind of set one might expect if one had dropped into a friend's living room on a summer afternoon,  He jumped from song to song without any introduction or segue, sometimes stopping abruptly to re-tune or to  start a riff over.  He made good use of his pedal board, and even though he only played an acoustic guitar and didn't have his customary bank of Marshall amps behind him, the sounds that he produced sounded every bit as electric as a Dinosaur Jr. solo.

I recognized a few D.J. songs in the set, and he played other songs from his new solo album. Covers included Mazzy Star's Fade Into You and, as my camera started to die, for his one-song encore, he performed The Cure's Just Like Heaven.

Here's a video, I don't know, maybe the video, to Every Morning, the second track from his new solo album.

Anyhow, if you're anything like me, you're probably spending the rest of your day watching the Funny or Die videos on auto-play, so I won't say anything more than "enjoy."

Prisoners

"Prisoners" by J Mascis and Sharon Van Etten from Aimee Mann 

There's so much win here, from Sharon Van Etten and J Mascis collaborating on a John Denver tune to Aimee Mann playing a Denver wannabe geek.  

Actually, that's pretty much everything there is to like in this video.

Lovely Night

This made me smile:  SNL's Fred Armisen, Jason Sudekis, and Bill Hader, with (in order of appearance) Carrie Brownstein, Steve Jones, J Mascis,  Kim Gordon, Aimee Mann, and Michael Penn.

Update:  I just noticed that J Mascis is wearing the same Void t-shirt that Stephen McBean of Black Mountain wore at MFNW 2012.