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EPISODE · Oct 3, 2025 · 19 MIN

Mini-Music-Fall-Back-Friday MOGO

from RAW impressions with Lou Barlow and Adelle Barlow

Lou treats Adelle to a wacky practice tape recording from 1984. Mogo (the first incarnation of Dinosaur Jr) performs Lou's song Center of the Universe. Lou then plays it live -and then- shares the recording of the original idea from 1983! Wow! Hear the uninterrupted MOGO version on our Substack! https://barlowfamilygeneral.substack.com/p/sacred-attentionBuy shit from our store:https://barlowfamilygeneralstore.com/by becoming a paid subscriber to our Substack you get free HQ downloads of Lou's self-releases (there's many) including the Joyful Noise Artist Enabler Series (the original Center of the Universe lives there) .. also Vol 1-5 of crazy-random pod-music...tons of stuff https://barlowfamilygeneral.substack.com/RAW Impressions uses Samson Q9U mics, mic stands and the Mixpad MXP144X Use code BARLOW for 15% off Samson Products at:https://www.samash.com/WATCH on LouTubehttps://youtu.be/1ZtfNxZGtRk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lou treats Adelle to a wacky practice tape recording from 1984. Mogo (the first incarnation of Dinosaur Jr) performs Lou's song Center of the Universe. Lou then plays it live -and then- shares the recording of the original idea from 1983! Wow! Hear the uninterrupted MOGO version on our Substack! https://barlowfamilygeneral.substack.com/p/sacred-attentionBuy shit from our store:https://barlowfamilygeneralstore.com/by becoming a paid subscriber to our Substack you get free HQ downloads of Lou's self-releases (there's many) including the Joyful Noise Artist Enabler Series (the original Center of the Universe lives there) .. also Vol 1-5 of crazy-random pod-music...tons of stuff https://barlowfamilygeneral.substack.com/RAW Impressions uses Samson Q9U mics, mic stands and the Mixpad MXP144X Use code BARLOW for 15% off Samson Products at:https://www.samash.com/WATCH on LouTubehttps://youtu.be/1ZtfNxZGtRk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Just like what's going to happen today? Yeah, I'm going to just... This is a big one. This is a big one.

This is back when Dinosaur Jr. was not Dinosaur Jr. or even Dinosaur. We were called MoGo.

MoGo. Are you breaking news? I've never heard this before. No, it's not big news.

The fans know. The die-hard sir. They do. Okay.

They know about MoGo. They know about MoGo. Post Deep Wound, J&I, our hardcore band broke up. I think in 84, I was a senior in high school.

Bad broke up. Jay started writing tunes and then listed me as a bass player. When you were a senior in high school, you were MoGo? Maybe.

It's also Hazy back then. It's such a Hazy kind of romantic time. Was Jay a year older than you? He was a senior in high school.

He was a freshman. Same with Moof. I think a year older than Jay. I think he was a year above.

I don't know. God. How did I get myself? I don't.

Sorry. That's my fault because I started asking questions that you're not prepared to answer. I don't even know my father's birthday. You do now.

I do now. September 29th. Good job. Don't ask me about my mommy's birthday.

It's February. It's February. It's all of February. That's a birthday.

When's your birthday? February. That's right. February is mommy month.

And MoGo was, we had Charlie Nakajima, who was the lead singer of Deep Wound. He was our singer. He was still in the band. In the Foil.

He was Ian Jay were really tight. We're good friends. He needs more Laquat. I can feel like a sort of...

Your hand is like chippity chippity. I'm so excited. I did it. Too much caffeine.

You said you wanted to do that. So you went to do that. After a long rambling intro. Yeah, this is practice day.

MoGo's practice day. Did you just find us? Where was this at? Jay's house?

Jay's basement. He was a childhood home. Your wife. What?

What are your parents going home? My sister. Your sister is not your parents? Close it.

A little bit. He's instructing me what to do. Sing into the tape recorder. Oh, okay.

Into the boom box. Oh my god. I don't think you're gonna do it. Did you have two things recording you guys?

This is... Oh no. It was really hard to sing like that. Oh.

Is that Jay? Yeah. He became a ripper overnight. I was like, one day he was...

Just this. One day he was... That was a great ending. That was a tight ending.

I'll say that. Ending fucking rocks. There were some wild moments in that song. Jay was from playing drums to like all of a sudden having a guitar in his hand and playing like that.

Yeah, that was crazy. I was like, oh my god. We were standing and we put the tape recorder in his laundry room. I believe on top of the washer and dryer or dryer.

And then the idea was just to close the door enough so the amps weren't too loud and we could kind of view it, and then we closed the door so then we could just sing out loud in the laundry room and it would be picked up by the tape recorder. It's pretty extraordinary. That's so adorable. And we were standing next to each other and doing it.

It was like so crazy. It was like a real... It was a real test for me. I was like, well, here we go.

I mean it was like so like right there and kind of intimate and I was feeling kind of bashful, you know. We're just gonna start yelping into the air. We're just gonna start yelping into the air in front of each other and I believe Charlie was in that closet with us. So there might have been three of us singing the choruses because that was just before Charlie left the band.

Left Mogo. He left Mogo. Did Mogo ever have a gig? We did.

Yes. Yes. Yes. We had a gig on the Amherst Common.

It might have been more than one gig, but the last gig was on Amherst Common. What do you mean the last gig is Mogo? So there's more than one gig is Mogo? There might have been one before that.

Wait, so this is all pre-dinosaur? Yes. I didn't know that. I feel like this was not touched on in the documentary.

Maybe not. I don't remember. I don't. I don't.

The Mogo months. I'm sure somebody mumbled Mo. Somebody mumbled Mogo somewhere in the course of that documentary. But anyway.

Yeah. You stole my water over there. I'm sorry. Okay.

But you seem like you really need it. You're holding it shaking and shaking. I'm so excited about this. This is a great unveiling of an original attempt to practice of a song of mine that disappeared.

We didn't. This is a song you that I wrote and I was even and Jay and Charlie kind of like assisted me. They're like, well, you need this and you need that. I had kind of an idea and I was really nervous to bring it to them and they suggested that I sing because I was like, I'm going to be lonely or something.

They're like, no, you should say instead of saying you're lonely, you should say no girl is going to shake your tree. I mean, like Jay actually suggested that he was kind of tweaking my lyrics. He's like, come on, dude. Let's use some metaphor here.

Come on. Let's get going. He was definitely able to drive traffic. He was like, I was so murfed.

Do that. You do this. Let's rewrite this. I had the really literal lyrics and he was like, here, why don't you do something about a tree?

You know, make it shake my tree. Get more poetic. So, I'm missing after three. So, puffs on Amalotica.

I'm going to play this song now. You remember it? Sure. I can also, I mean, I listen to that.

You listen to it enough to know what happened. Also, there's some muscle memory involved. Wow. Yeah.

Get on that bike. So, I'm trying to keep myself nice and free. God is perence. So, he's okay.

Trip him right at the fire. No day. It's no girls going to shake his tree. And there's nothing for us.

He can see. I'm a Santa, other unover. The thing that matters is me. Just trying to keep myself organization, well, it's easier than you think.

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Good job. How many years later is that? Thirty-two, thirty-three years later. We did actually record a version of that song as a B-side to one of our recent records.

Almost 40 years later. I got that recording. I think in, I guess it was 2015 maybe. What do you mean you got that recording?

It's recording John Thetler, how the tapes. John, if he makes an appearance in the talks in the beginning there. Oh yeah. Okay, that's him.

His parents were going to be home. That's John. Good friend of ours, and archivist, really, the Dino Archivist. Like he saved all kinds of stuff.

He went on tour with us early on. He saved everything. Just fucking incredible. Again, these people that saved things and document things.

Something to be said for not always throwing things away. I know. Or just going, what doesn't really matter? It does.

It all matters. It matters. It matters. Some people know that.

John Thetler knew that. So he saved that stuff. He saved those tapes that were digitized by a great fan tape collector named Greg Kay, who I've known for years. He's just a real, also an archivist of just, he just has all kinds of live tapes and leg things.

Yeah, so he digitized it. I got the files from him. Nice. He holding on to the tapes.

Maybe so. Yeah. From the boom backs. I don't know where the tape was.

Was it in a boom box or was it in a Henry Rollins has it thing like you guys have there? Maybe it's in Henry Rollins is like in a case that Henry Rollins is compound. He's got incredible stuff. What?

Henry Rollins. Talk about archivists. Henry Rollins. He's got like the first Ramones cassette rehearsals.

Really? Yes. I bolded those right over something you were saying. What was it?

I didn't know. Like you said, you guys were singing into a cassette tape. So I was like, is that a boom box? A stereo recording boom box.

Like they had a radio option. And then it had two little mics on either side because it was a stereo recording. Those things were fucking great. They made incredible recordings.

Really? Deep Moon recorded our early demos on that same boom box. Isn't that great? How fun, too.

It was like in the palm of your hand, then you could be creative and even record yourself. Oh, yeah. It's empowering, right? It's like, gives kids this like little place to make their little musical MoGo Dreams come true.

When did MoGo die and turn into dinosaur? We did a show at the Embers Common. It was very controversial. I think the policeman has showed up.

Why? Because we were loud. Because we were like, disrespectfully loud. Obnoxiously.

You don't say? Yeah. And really just fighting with our instruments. Oh, God.

I wish I could see that. If only there was a cell phone back then. So that didn't go well. So then Charlie left the band.

Oh. One more thing to play for you. This is the whole evolution. So I'm going to play the that I'm going to play the recording inspired.

Oh, go. Lou wants us to hear the very original center of the universe. The one that he recorded in high school. Could anything be this interesting?

Is this going to be so interesting? Oh, oh my gosh. Does this mean my room? You know, 83 probably.

Yeah. Was that part of a longer collage of stuff? Yeah. Yeah.

That's what I used to do. It's like a long collages. You know, we're just linking things together, you know, with like little bits off the radio and then I like that another song next, you know. Yep.

That's cool. Yeah. Was that also recorded into like a yeah, because that tape type or was it like in the thing we have here? No, I did.

I did a thing where I used a portable tape recorder just a mono recording. Okay. A little handheld thing and do that. I'd record the song first and to there.

Oh, and then I would put the tape in the stereo played out through the stereo and then record again into the portable tape recorder. Wow. How do you know how to do that? Music called Friday.

Thank you for listening. Fall back Friday. Many music fall back Friday. Thank you for listening.

For your not Friday. Mm. This is a big Friday. You're competing.

We're competing with this podcast episode and the unearthing of this incredible Mogo music with just some other news that's happening in the world, you know. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, you know what?

The life of a show man is this Friday right here on Wrong Press. The life of a bloated man. The life of a bloated man. The life of an on tour man.

Oh, there's nothing quite as memorable. Boy. Boy. Yeah.

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This episode was published on October 3, 2025.

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Lou treats Adelle to a wacky practice tape recording from 1984. Mogo (the first incarnation of Dinosaur Jr) performs Lou's song Center of the Universe. Lou then plays it live -and then- shares the recording of the original idea from 1983! Wow! Hear...

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