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When did Dinosaur Jr. form?
Mascis and Barlow played together, on drums and guitar respectively, in the hardcore punk band Deep Wound, formed in 1982 while the pair were attending high school in western Massachusetts.
What was significant about Dinosaur Jr.'s formation?
Deep Wound broke up in mid-1984. Cosloy had dropped out of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to focus on running his independent record label, Homestead Records.

Question: Why did they change the name?
Self-contained rewrite: Why did the band Mogo change their name?