{"id":934,"date":"2007-06-15T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/15\/gotta-hand-it\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T18:57:08","slug":"gotta-hand-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Gotta Hand It…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…to JB when credit is due.<\/p>\n

Oh, I disagree with J about a lot of things, of course; music (stuff I like is better), politics (on the one hand, people who come to conservatism after being liberals might <\/em>not be better conservatives; on the other hand, Ronald Reagan.\u00a0 Case closed) and any autobiographical information that I actually put on this site (which, if it’s posted on this site and is not clearly satire, is true.\u00a0 There are too many of my friends, high school and college classmates, ex-girlfriends, my kids, my parents, my aunts and uncles, old band-mates and an ex-wife reading this blog that can call “BS” if I were <\/em>to say something stupid – so I don’t).\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, he’s right; Dinosaur Junior sucked back then, and they suck now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 They suck, except for their cover of Richard Thompson’s “I Misunderstood”, which benefits by being a really great song by one of the great living songwriters, something even J Mascis can’t screw up.\u00a0 Even though Thompson is the world’s greatest living guitarist, and Mascis isn’t fit to carry Thompson’s gig bag.<\/p>\n

UPDATE II:\u00a0 Oh, and whatever his other faults, Mascis is best known for playing a Fender Jazzmaster, which is what I play.\u00a0 So while I can’t stand his oeuvre<\/em> in any way (except as noted above), us Jazzmaster guys gotta stick together.\u00a0Although my Jazz is a hotrod, and his was pretty much stock.\u00a0 Which I say only to point out that I am, indeed, cooler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…to JB when credit is due. Oh, I disagree with J about a lot of things, of course; music (stuff I like is better), politics (on the one hand, people who come to conservatism after being liberals might not be better conservatives; on the other hand, Ronald Reagan.\u00a0 Case closed) and any autobiographical information that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}