commercial success continued

Murph left the band after touring for Where You Been and was replaced for the band’s live shows by George Berz, leaving Mascis as the sole remaining original member. However, the band’s subsequent albums would be recorded mostly by Mascis on his own, playing everything except for the bass and some of the harmony vocals, which continued to be handled by Mike Johnson. The commercial success continued with 1994’s Without a Sound , which placed well in both the US and UK album charts. Without a Sound notably contained the lead single ” Feel the Pain “, which became the band’s highest-charting single (No. 4 on the Alternative Airplay chart and No. 25 on the UK Singles chart). 1997’s Hand It Over suffered from a lack of promotion by the band’s label, as Mascis claimed that the album did not contain a “hit single” (although “Take a Run at the Sun”, which only appeared on certain editions of the album, peaked at No. 53 on the UK Singles chart). Due to the lack of promotion and a low turnout during their 1997 tour, Mascis finally retired the Dinosaur Jr. name, with the group’s final live performance being an appearance on the American talk show The Jenny Jones Show . In 2000, Mascis released the first of two solo albums under the name J Mascis + The Fog .