WHAT WE’VE LEARNT

● J Mascis taught himself drums by playing along to hardcore albums with the speed switched from 33 rpm to 45. “I was just sick of all the hippies and their drugs,” he explains.

● Matt Dillon directed the video for 1992’s Get Me, in the course of which he met J’s dentist father who presented him with a business card that read: “Dinosaur Snr.”

● 2015’s 30th anniversary gigs in New York featured guest musicians and vocalists including Frank Black, Charles Bradley, Kim Gordon, Bob Mould, Henry Rollins, Kevin Shields and Kurt Vile.

● J’s wife Luisa describes the band thus: “It’s like an ongoing song. I haven’t figured out which song it is, or what it’s about, but it’s an ongoing daily song.”