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J. Mascis stands among his Marshall stacks during a rote yet solid performance at the Boulder Theater Thursday night.

It never feels good being passed over. The sense that intentions were unappreciated and achievements are undervalued is often enough to make most people pack up and go home.

The band Dinosaur Jr. is shown in a handout photo. Two decades ago, the original lineup of Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr., "I Want You To Know" The much ballyhoo'd resurrection of the original Dino lineup a few years ago a ' with bassist/crybaby Lou Barlow and laconic-to-the-point-of-sometimes-seeming-retarded-or-maybe-dead frontman J Mascis burying the axe a ' saw the faithful turn ecstatic at the dropping of '07's Beyond .

The old adage ''Time healsa all wounds'' may have no stronger proponents than Dinosaur Jr., a band whose original, critically adored lineup violently broke apart two decades ago, only to re-form in 2005 without missing a beat .

Currency Conversion: Dinosaur Jr. makes money, gets good again. Farm Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr. 's forthcoming album Farm is the second album they have released after re-uniting their original line-up. Lead-singer J. Mascis took some time to discuss with FILTER some of the friction that was instrumental to the group's original breakup.