Husker Du

[ghost of miles]

I don't remember Husker Du

Probably mentioned it upstream in the thread, but JH, I saw them live back in 1985 as well...the Patio in Indianapolis (easy place at the time for an underage kid to get in). They were smokin'... Grant Hart was on the nod after the show, I think, standing outside on the sidewalk in a VERY calm state of mind.

[dave9199]

That's the show that has made the rounds as a video bootleg. Was it 6/21/85? I had an EP called Drug Party which had 2 versions of that song on the best one was from that show. I have a bad video of it.

[ghost of miles]

That's the show that has made the rounds as a video bootleg. Was it 6/21/85? I had an EP called Drug Party which had 2 versions of that song on the best one was from that show. I have a bad video of it.

Wow--that's pretty cool! I wouldn't mind seeing that. That date sounds right. I still have the ticket stub, buried somewhere in my desk. Saw the Replacements that same summer at the same venue.

[dave9199]

Go to youtube and type in husker du patio. I think the whole show is there.

[ghost of miles]

Oh, man, that is a trip down memory lane! Thanks much... I was in the far-right back of the club (which was packed), kind of in Mould's sightline. I watched Part 1 and Part 10 ("Eight Miles High"). That was just a great, great time to be 18 or 19 and listening to music.. the American indie underground was hitting a highwater mark around then. (And from the UK, Jesus and Mary Chain and the Smiths... big bands in my circle of friends and not well-known yet over here.)

[Hoppy T. Frog]

Despite Husker Du still being one of my favorite bands, I have no desire to see Bob Mould. The last album I bought of his was 1998's The Last Dog & Pony Show. Starting with Sugar's Beaster in 1993, he hasn't floated my boat the way he used to. I'll still give Grant Hart a shot. I liked his last album, 1999's Good News For Modern Man. He's working on an album now.

Are you my doppelganger? "The Last Dog and Pony Show" was my last Mould album, and I thought he was phoning it in, and I loved "Good News For Modern Man". I've had no desire to check out Bob's "electronica" album or any of his DJ sets here in DC. I fear they would be the club music kin to Moby's punk rock attempts.

[dave9199]

Here's a piece of trivia: On Hart's Good News For Modern Man, the song In A Cold House was originally done for the Huskers album they were working on when they broke up. It had different words & was called Get Along With Me. There is another on Mould's electronica album that was done at the same time in Husker called Trade.

[Robert J]

I saw him in the fall of 2005 with Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, bassist Jason Narducy and keys Richard Morel. It was great and they've made a dvd from that.

I knew nothing of the 'new' album Body Of Song, and stopped buying after FUEL. Still, in front of the stage with earplugs, sober Bob 10 feet away - it was a highlight for me that year. Don't know what to expect this time, but I think he's gotten the gay dance-club tunes out of his system.

This was the setlist from the last tour (as on the DVD)

“The Act We Act” (Sugar, Copper Blue)

“A Good Idea” (Sugar, Copper Blue)

“Changes” (Sugar, Copper Blue)

“Circles” (Bob Mould, Body of Song)

“Paralyzed” (Bob Mould, Body of Song)

“I Am Vision, I Am Sound” (Bob Mould, Body of Song)

“Underneath Days” (Bob Mould, Body of Song)

“Hoover Dam” (Sugar, Copper Blue)

“See A Little Light” (Bob Mould, Workbook)

“High Fidelity” (Bob Mould, Body of Song)

“Hardly Getting Over It” (Hüsker Dü, Candy Apple Grey)

“Could You Be The One?” (Hüsker Dü, Warehouse: Songs and Stories)

“I Apologize” (Hüsker Dü, New Day Rising)

“Chartered Trips” (Hüsker Dü, Zen Arcade)

“The Receipt” (Bob Mould, Modulate)

“Best Thing” (Bob Mould, Body of Song)

“Celebrated Summer” (Hüsker Dü, New Day Rising)

“Beating Heart The Prize” (Bob Mould, Body of Song)

“Egoverride” (Bob Mould, Bob Mould)

“If I Can’t Change Your Mind” (Sugar, Copper Blue)

“Helpless” (Sugar, Copper Blue)

“Makes No Sense At All” (Hüsker Dü, Flip Your Wig)

“Man On The Moon” (Sugar, Copper Blue)

[Robert J]

He's playing live and on the net as of 12noon EST

http://www.xpn.org/index.php

[WD45]

I bought The Gang Font feat. Interloper which has Greg Norton on bass and someone from The Bad Plus. That was pretty good.

I ran across The Gang Font just this week. It is Dave King [drummer from The Bad Plus], Craig Taborn, and Eric Fratzke [of Happy Apple, and the supremely awesome doom-rock instrumental quartet Zebulon Pike].

A real Twin-Cities powerhouse, that group. Can't wait to hear the record.