With a guitar tone and vocal lassitude as pristine as they have ever been, J. Mascis has released his reworking of Tom Petty’s “Don’t Do Me Like That.” While putting his own twist on it, the Dinosaur Jr. frontman was careful to preserve the pith of the song, which is in its punch. Indeed, fills stay untampered with, notes are unwasted, and the overall rhythmic pattern just as it was in the original.
The release comes almost a year after someone shot a video of Mascis singing the 1979 hit to a rather empty karaoke bar in Provincetown, Massachusetts with merely a mic in hand. The video went viral, so he decided to take it one step further for his fans. The official version is also right on time for a tour he is about to kick off, where he will play dates around the world.
J. Mascis tour dates:
04/16 – Tokyo, Japan @ Shibuya WWWX
04/17 – Osaka, Japan @ Drop
05/09 – Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2
05/10 – London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall
05/11 – Leeds, UK – Belgrave Music Hall
05/13 – Glasgow, UK @ St. Luke’s [SOLD OUT]
05/14 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy Oxford
05/15 – Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms
05/17 – Liverpool, UK @ Arts Club
05/18 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla [SOLD OUT]
05/19 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Gorilla
06/15 – Provincetown, MA @ Twenty Summers @ The Hawthorne Barn
06/21 – Athens, Greece @ AN Club
07/01 – Hamburg, Germany @ Knust
07/03 – Berlin, Germany @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
07/06 – Paris, France @ La Maroquinerie
07/08 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso Noord
07/09 – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Rotown [SOLD OUT]
07/11 – Genova, Italy @ Giardini Luzzati
07/12 – Prato, Italy @ Festival Delle Colline
07/14 – Rome, Italy @ Rome Unplugged in Monti
