Missing Link - The Arsenio Hall Show

Missing Link - The Arsenio Hall Show

Dinosaur Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzQLqb8D9s

Dinosaur Jr & Del tha Funkee Homosapien performing “Missing Link” from the Judgment Night soundtrack live on the Arsenio Hall Show in 1993. This is the ONLY live performance of this song. Look for Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges) on the bass, Mike Johnson on guitar and Beastie Boy Mike D. on drums. This is the only live performance of that track :)

This first aired October 8th, 1993

You can get the track or album at amazon

“J Mascis, guitarist, Dinosaur Jr.: He had this thing on MTV I saw. Hanging out with Del. He probably seemed cool. So I asked about him. It worked out. He seemed like I could relate to him. … Del gave me the BPM that he wanted to rap, so that was what we started with when I played the drums. I think I played everything but the rap. I thought it was a pretty good groove to rap to. I do remember ordering out for food, and him and his buddy had never had Thai food. And they weren’t interested in trying it. I did like hanging out with him; it was pretty cool.”

“And then we did the Arsenio show. I still have the Arsenio bathrobe that he gives you. I remember Mike D had played there a few weeks before, so he already had a bathrobe. I asked Mike D and Mike Watt to play. I think Arsenio was impressed with Mike Watt. … It was fun to play the song live on TV. I don’t think any other bands played a track. I doubt we were the first choice.”

Via Oral History of the ‘Judgment Night’ Soundtrack on RollingStone

Bonus - interview with Del on working with J Mascis

More backstory from Del on twitter

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