Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis on Straight Edge and More - Soft Focus - Episode 6

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As a founding member of Dinosaur Jr., J Mascis has been one of our favorite Fender-wielding front-guys for the better part of a quarter century. Even during that band's intermittent sabbaticals of the late 90s and early aughts, he kept at it, pulling together durable outfits such as Witch and J Mascis and the Fog and also kicking around with Mike Watt and helping to get the Stooges back together. In this special interview conducted in the United Kingdom, J opens up to Ian about the secrets of songwriting, an east-coast punk upbringing, and his near total disregard for the bass guitar.
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@adamblister6005 9 лет назад

This is the only interview with J. Mascis where J. Mascis isn't the weird one.

@Ojoe2010 8 лет назад

+Pete Agassi lol, good one :D

@sebadcabre 8 лет назад

+Pete Agassi I don't think I've ever seen an interviewer use a hidden piece of paper to ask questions.

@nuckels188 6 лет назад

Does he think he's in the beatles or

@deadlightdrifter3462 6 лет назад

So true

@gloryxkid 5 лет назад

There’s another noisey video with him and he’s actually laughing and having a good time

@louiso.4325 6 лет назад

I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to have a disdain for drugs but to have people constantly think you're on them

@ericgenestvideoclips 5 лет назад

I ve had that since I'm 14... Sometimes it's pretty annoying, yes...

@cybertronian2005 5 лет назад

see also, Frank Zappa

@senileanimal7772 4 года назад

Barney Os. People tell me that all the time i hate it

@zibro6379 4 года назад

I can relate...

@shippo36able 4 года назад

I understand this thought. I am an epileptic adult, and people often assume I am a tweaker, a methhead, and I'm like,man I smoke enough pot to kill a horse. Assumptions are for assholes.

@killerbunyip 7 лет назад

At least J is talking. I've seen him twice in the past couple of years. His solo show he said ``Thank you'' at the end. With Dinosaur, about 30 minutes into the set, he and Murph started on different songs. They stopped, looked at each other, J looks down at his pedals, looks back up at us and says: ``We seem to have a discrepancy in our setlist.''

@hellakooked 6 лет назад

lol

@SaintMartins 5 лет назад

You witness a Spinal Tap moment for Dinosaur Jr. You're lucky.

@juancitolimon8743 4 года назад

tremendo

@marshalllaw8842 3 года назад

that was beautiful, thank you for sharing.

@johnpickk7526 3 года назад

hahahah thats great

@chogokin666 8 лет назад

Two extremely high energy individuals!

@lifeloser100 7 лет назад

yea good joke

@Benjaminbutton86 6 лет назад

aah i see what you did there

@tmjmccormack 8 месяцев назад

Vocal Frynosaur

@tylerlovejoy992 3 года назад

"I feel like J has seen the face of God and nothing impresses him anymore"

@digitaldeficiency4893 3 года назад

"911 whats your emergency?" "uhh, yeah, so, there's like a umm... a fire..."

@indianapwn3s 8 лет назад

This is like straight out of Portlandia

@Univox68 8 лет назад

damn i wonder what he sounds like when he's actually tired.

@flowerdoodle2438 8 лет назад

Hilarious!

@adamblister6005 8 лет назад

+Univox sixtyeight comatose

@oshikiri999 5 лет назад

Some say his voice begins to come exclusively from his nose.

@SnaFOo75 4 года назад

@@oshikiri999 lool

@oshikiri999 4 года назад

@@SnaFOo75 haha at least someone gets it 😂

@bauzel5890 2 года назад

J is so fucking relaxed, listen to him is somekind of anti-stress therapy.

@barefootiguana2760 7 лет назад

Camera man on the left picks his nose and plays with it at 5:03

@bjrnmartinsaastad2548 7 лет назад

Haha! He actually does! What the fuck!

@robinsonsvillage7599 7 лет назад

I just spat my drink out all over my laptop. Thanks fam

@aaronkittyvids 5 лет назад

Don't know how you caught that... but now I can't un-see it...

@Dirtyshinobi 5 лет назад

Got em!

@4thandinches 5 лет назад

I can't say I blame him in this instance.

@GrandmasDay32 7 лет назад

Dude sounds like Chris Griffin. Like he's always on the verge of belching.

@MrFluffypunk 6 лет назад

I cannot actually watch this... His voice... it's bringing up similar feelings to being stuck behind a really slow, shuffling old man on a narrow sidewalk when you're late to catch a train.

@oaksnice 8 лет назад

- And, you know. Yeah - Aha yeah - But yeah, you know - Yeah yeah! So did you? - Ahh, uhm yeah - Yeah

@keithroddy8297 7 лет назад

Yeah

@ruliano7 7 лет назад

sfdafsad areesf a

@artso1990 6 лет назад

kinda, yeah, you know

@tripp8833 6 лет назад

yeah, yeah I know.

@falkoskidaniel 5 лет назад

Lol...

@JOcasio1977 3 года назад

Jesus christ..I came for an interview and stayed for the guided meditation

@peachmelba1000 9 лет назад

The vocal fry is strong with this one...

@artblack01 9 лет назад

He's talking more than the interviewer, that's new.

@MegaMumbles 11 лет назад

I love this interview. Both the interviewer and the interviewee can hardly form a cohesive statement. It's like back and forth banter. Exactly what I like to see in an interview.

@danielstoddart 5 лет назад

"The Boston scene was really straight edge right?" "Yeah but I was like at school cos I was kinda came to y'know straight edge kinda on my own and you're just like I was into punk and all the punks seemed like oh they were all junkies and all this stuff and then y'know you find Minor Threat single comes out and you're like wow dude this is way more relatable cos my town was full of hippies and like the way to rebel was kinda not to do drugs I was just so sick of all these acid burnouts around town and so yeah I was already like that's where I was at totally like I just couldn't take it anymore and I just hated drugs and all the druggie hippies and stuff and so when that came out I was like wow this is way more relatable to me than like junkie New York Dolls kinda punk and stuff cos that's y'know exactly where I was at in that moment and so it was pretty awesome."

@NickHarman 7 лет назад

It's as if they both have wigs on.

@elmoblatch9787 5 лет назад

"I just hated drugs." - not something you hear all that often from rock stars

@josh-rz3uq 4 года назад

Other than J, there's Frank Zappa, Buzz Osborne, Mike Patton, Ian MacKaye (although I think he would object to being called a rock star), Gene Simmons. Not a whole lot, but they do exist.

@Firebrand1967 4 года назад

@@josh-rz3uqand Ted Nugent.

@josh-rz3uq 4 года назад

@@Firebrand1967 Yep, but Ted is also insane.

@Firebrand1967 4 года назад

@@josh-rz3uq Ok, whatever...but he IS indeed a straight-edged rockstar nonetheless.

@josh-rz3uq 4 года назад

@@Firebrand1967 That he is. He's also proof that you don't need drugs to absolutely lose your shit.

@snevs 9 лет назад

If you can't sleep put this video on.

@FawazK 3 года назад

This got a chuckle out of me. Thank you.

@ksrhys- 8 лет назад

For the first 10 minutes, this interviewer is weirdly hilarious, he looks anxious like he just saw a spider on J's head but he couldn't tell if it was real or if it was there because of all that acid he took 3:21

@RealAsaMitaka 9 месяцев назад

this is the funniest fucking comment ive read in a while

@gc8972b 4 года назад

If I had a friend like these guys back in the day, wouldn`t have been so frustrated and pushed so hard to not look weird

@joshuareyna5624 5 лет назад

Jay speaks through his guitar playing.

@airsoftvulture 3 года назад

writing songs is likefishing just waiting for something to come to u, always knew this never expressed the thought

@Chr_07 7 лет назад

Is this an episode of Tim and Eric?

@evanherb5900 7 лет назад

The longer I watch it, the more sure I am that it totally is.

@tbone10ify 7 лет назад

who would play J?

@matttorres8921 7 лет назад

Tim, for sure.

@chippchipp1 7 лет назад

+tbone10ify James Quall

@syndiccalls9965 5 лет назад

Lol

@michaelhirstny 4 месяца назад

Give it up to Ian the interviewer. He got so much interesting stuff out of a famously hard to interview person. The TV "question" was so awesome.

@ThePhil230 12 лет назад

He's pretty talkative in this interview. Great stuff, I love Mascis.

@eveninarcadia438 8 лет назад

People hating on the interviewer should do some fucking homework. Ian Svenonius is a legend. He is well respected by everyone he has interviewed for Soft Focus.

@wowimaoi 8 лет назад

+Even in Arcadia Maybe so, but that doesn't really mean that people can't dislike him. I watched his interview with Malkmus from Pavement and it made me legitimately uncomfortable the way he linked together such separate events. It sounded along the lines of... "Speaking of real...You like basketball?" WHAT

@PAULLONDEN 8 лет назад

+Even in Arcadia A 'legend" in New York City art circles.....for the rest he's a sycophant bullcrap spouter... Like..."One Of The The Most Bewitching Musicians Of Our Time"........................................ Just like Mascis he should take some valium to battle his restless legs syndrome,or get behind a fucking table or get an armchair with some sympathetic lighting instead of this uncomfortable cold overexposed setting..which definitely is not very becoming for "J"...... Then maybe he wouldn't have to pull his socks up or buttoning up his jacket....

@ShaneKennedy1969 8 лет назад

I don't like interviewers who make statements & then expect the interviewee to add to it. They make it too much about THEM.

@wetigaz 7 лет назад

He may be renowned but he is a bad interviewer in this instance at least.

@TetsumatsuKai 6 лет назад

doesn't mean he is good at interviews

@michaelcarey9359 4 года назад

Guy talks about "acid burnouts" in Amherst (they call them "professor" in town), but in all reality, imagine running into Mascis in front of DP Dough, without any clue who this old "acid burnout" is and asking him, well, uhhh.... ummm, yeahhhh anything. Yeah, dentist's kid, presumptions and all, just a reluctance to admit he was a bit off back then.

@daltonlunn1653 2 года назад

Liked for the DP Dough reference

@davidjameschamberlain 9 лет назад

how does he not here lou, he's one of my favorite bassists because he sounds so good

@plumanuspranks4899 4 года назад

If you get really stoned with a stranger and then have a conversation this is the result

@HillsSilent Год назад

Yeah. 😂

@jackkeenan2348 9 лет назад

Interviewer looks like a werewolf

@snicker576 4 года назад

A stupid one

@michaeloneill8452 3 года назад

J Mascis and Ian can do whatever they want to do. Cant believe they talked for that long.

@Noisey 12 лет назад

We're working on it hombre.

@WCB360 11 лет назад

"we're in the united kingdom" "..right"

@krisdavis1050 3 года назад

When I want to calm down I just listen to J. talk about music

@mattiasjp 3 года назад

Intense energy from these two guys. 😄 But I actually think it’s really nice to see.

@paniccat 11 лет назад

I could listen to his voice all the time, any time.

@TheKohlslaw 9 лет назад

He reminds me of Chris from family guy but all grown up.

@angusbrooks1077 9 лет назад

why did you have to draw this comparison :| youve fucked it from now on lol

@adamelliott3059 9 лет назад

but talks at Cleveland's pace

@grant5603 8 лет назад

hahahaha

@tomholihan4850 7 лет назад

Right on. Cleveland-speak ; cadence ,is essentially perfect.

@vincemcc79 6 лет назад

haha - he does sound like him!

@neaippehtuuppin 4 года назад

When he asked about TV, with some negative connotations, I just laughed, because I knew J mascis was into it, from what I heard. I remember an interview in the early nineties, J Mascis was talking about the soap operas he watched. His response here was like when I was talking to someone at work years ago, and I mentioned how I hated soap operas and TV, and he was like yeah, like he agreed, then went into depth about all the soaps he enjoyed watching.

@TheSludger 10 лет назад

Mascis got the same voice I have when I get up at 6:00am for going to work ...

@grandnaguszek7417 8 лет назад

-You're from Amherst. Are you from Amherst??

@esojaloerra174 4 года назад

Shouts out A town

@jhaj457 3 года назад

Brilliant, always check your sources. Better late then never;)

@kevincardinale8969 11 лет назад

I've never been able to understand why people don't get that Ian is kidding. It's meant to be satirical--he's pretty obviously putting on an exaggerated personality to make fun of interviewers. Not only that, he manages to reel out genuinely funny questions that are as insightful as the responses they provoke. I think he's totally entertaining and well-intentioned. I think if people knew about his history, like that he was in a band on Dischord, they wouldn't be calling him a douche.

@DanHintz Месяц назад

people are dumb.

@jigrodrigues 3 года назад

Nice to see Chris Griffin talking about his music

@cobra5088 6 месяцев назад

I can't unhear it now. It would be funny if family guy did a segment with chris and j mascis conversing.

@austenslost 11 лет назад

i can just imagine J opening his basement door and being like "oh shit" XD

@adamblister6005 8 лет назад

16:44 wtf is he drinking?????? looks like he almost gagged on it.

@touchingpeopleonthetrain1779 4 года назад

I'm fucking rolling hahahah

@bmxryan 6 лет назад

Did this interviewer want to talk to J about drugs because he was on acid asking questions? #thatSTARE😳

@DanHintz Месяц назад

great as usual. every soft focus episode i have seen has been interesting.

@khaaleliilighntingcoronado9009 5 лет назад

J has inspired me to be sober and clean during my rock n roll journey. ALOT of things led me to being sober but he was a huge reason why. Look at alot of artist they're burnt out, can't sing the same, play the same, hardly have energy or patience. J only focuses on the music instead of drugs and the baggage that comes with drugs and alcohol. Look how long he's been going and how many fucking songs hes created. No drugs or excuses on why he couldn't finish albums or tours.

@holoskyrios6158 8 лет назад

Wow, what a great interview !

@joeyrogerson83 9 лет назад

J seems surprisingly comfortable, I would think that being these two know each other a bit or that they are two artist types with similar dispositions.

@DanHintz Месяц назад

they played gigs together. ian is a somewhat famous musician too.

@PK-jr3rg 3 года назад

too cool, great chemistry always interesting and entertaining!

@FatherRikhi 10 лет назад

Man, J Mascis should do more spoken word, killer talking voice and all. I'd buy any albums of him telling childrens stories in a heartbeat.

@oppothumbs1 7 месяцев назад

Introduction to children, in the voice of J: straight edge gay I say my pledge it ain't easy, up so close, the things she put me through the distance in her eyes make me wait. Hardcore, waiting for the sun, sympathetic ears, bear arms before we sang, they said we are good even if she would no put out. TV's my mass media it's so hot, my girl she's cool, but mass transportation is the only place I think, yeah I think, I'm alone with my thoughts but I got caught in the slipknot.

@mercurial71 5 месяцев назад

That would be so good if you had trouble sleeping. “J reads The Hound of the Baskervilles” in ten hours and 8 minutes ❤.

@andrewcameroncline3733 8 лет назад

question: "you know (band/person/film)? i don't know..." answer: "...yeah"

@DownUFO 11 лет назад

J.'s the king of lazy. watching this video and hearing him speak retroactively undid all the work i've done for the past week,

@johnnyscifi 4 года назад

Both J, and Svenonius are ones of a kind!!!

@Overlorddz Месяц назад

Saw Dinosaur JR last week in The Hague, oh man that was so awesome and peaceful.

@jerryskid1 11 лет назад

What great format for an interview. Crazy!

@thekidwiththefa 11 лет назад

Funny that people think that J and the interviewer come off as 'twats'. I like this interview since this guy seems to know how to talk to J and relate to him. This is a super fucking cool interview.

@DanHintz Месяц назад

a lot of dumbasses in this thread who don't get it.

@mingmorgan 7 лет назад

from barcelona...thanks noisey...thanks ian and of course thanks joe!!!

@phillipolivas7619 10 лет назад

Ian seem to be on opiates... Scratching his face the whole interview.

@paulpz2004 10 лет назад

yeah his complexion screams, "just stpepped off the good H train"

@EctInc 11 лет назад

Holy fuck I learned something about Scooby Doo. and being from that area, J's reaction hits home.

@Groundedsquirrel 5 месяцев назад

I’m from MA and never knew that!

@jhaj457 3 года назад

Interviewer: "Your house burnt down.." J: "hmm" Interviewer: "I am sorry about that" (13:19) the interviewer looks in a a way like he burnt it down himself.

@HillsSilent Год назад

It's all coming together now...

@escherpainting8622 2 года назад

J's clearly a performer. You see him do interviews with no audience and he barely even opens his mouth, but there's a group of (possibly paying?) audience members and he drives the conversation, almost.

@gregrohsful 9 месяцев назад

I think its because the interviewer is an off beat or traditional. Even at dinosaur jr shows he's not talkative.

@DukeSecom 11 лет назад

He's probably thinking, '...I've never felt so alive!'

@devinkhoury4490 4 года назад

for some reason that was the shortest 20 minutes ever

@mercurial71 5 месяцев назад

Because there were only seven words… Ents take a long time to say anything, but what they do say is very important.

@Totallydistortedfilm 11 лет назад

Wow, I just got to hear what J Mascis' ring tone sounds like.

@Groundedsquirrel 5 месяцев назад

It did not disappoint

@sderoski1 3 года назад

I saw Dinosaur at Irving Plaza before they had the first record on Homestead, the show was called the Boston tea party and the other bands were the Neats, Salem 66, and Flies, pretty fun

@id3072 7 лет назад

Put the speed on 1.25... You'll thank me.

@fuddinblackmetal 5 лет назад

This made the interview bearable. Thank you lol

@cactaceous 4 года назад

Yo! Thanks for the tip idea. Much better. Haha.

@davehoward22 4 года назад

Put it on 0.25 it takes a month

@bobbobbyjones 4 года назад

Thanks

@hankgege2199 4 года назад

Lol😄 dude the whole audience is sleeping and snoring away

@boggy.subtitulos 3 года назад

Lot of energy coming from these guys! Love Dinosaur Jr. tho 👌🏼

@aleklockhart1625 Год назад

When he’s taking about oi and call it “the sound of the streets” that got me good hahaha

@danielthomas1036 10 лет назад

J is the coolest guy in the world

@donculig2525 8 лет назад

"you're from... Amherst....are you from Amhert" HAHAHA this interviewer is really good..usually.. this just seems like he's got jetlag or something

@masonmanning3955 9 лет назад

he really likes his negative approach tshirt

@poopdogg666 7 лет назад

Wow i didn't know that Ian Svenonius was the interviewer for this show. His music is amazing.

@DanHintz Месяц назад

most of the idiot comments in this thread come from people who do not get that this is an act and they have no idea who he is.

@cryptomnesiac 8 лет назад

need to bring this series back

@jasonkim3758 9 лет назад

yeah... yeah... yeah.... yeah!.... yeah.... yeah....

@rod.857 7 лет назад

J sounds like and adult version of chris from family guy

@volumesofrelativeobscurity Год назад

Another overlooked genius.

@peteagassi 11 лет назад

"I also know, we are in the united kingdom right now..." "Right."

@ryanjavierortega8513 7 лет назад

Man, Mascis shoes are dope!

@thomasraven 4 года назад

They really had to dig to find an interviewer who's more socially awkward than J. :P

@IStehSHIT 9 лет назад

I really Love this

@jvasey 4 года назад

I wish I was there with a cattle prod for every time the interviewer aborts a sentence

@AlwaysReady4Luv 9 лет назад

two super handsome men talkin good stuff bout music *thumbs up*

@timsissucks69 10 лет назад

NEGATIVE APPROACH shirt hot damn! saw them with casualties this week

@fuzzylumpkin49 8 лет назад

Great interview. J is awesome. ^_^

@ceevishus4130 Год назад

my favorite musician, J. Mascis

@gorillawalk2 7 лет назад

What a bizarre ass couple of dudes, don't know if I could hang out at that pace. Man, I love your music though J.

@DanHintz Месяц назад

you should check out ian's music as well.

@BulletProofSoul1029 Год назад

I can get what J means about drums. I'm thinking he hears where he wants the fills and accents. I can actually hear that in his song writing now that he pointed it out.