RIP Grant Hart

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Saw Hüsker Dü just once in 1987, at the Fillmore in San Francisco (then known as 'The Old Fillmore').. a few years back (maybe 2011?) my band opened for him at the Hemlock in SF, and he borrowed my amp. I told him about the show I'd seen, his reply "No way man, we did NOT play the Fillmore... we never played the Fillmore, you're out of your mind." And I'm like, but I have the poster man, Christmas opened, I bought a shirt, of you course you did.

Then it occurred to me that maybe he was out of his mind in 1987 and has no memory of it...

BTW his solo set was brilliant but he did appear sort of semi-homeless

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:27 (eleven months ago) link

Starting a website: bearorhomeless?.com

Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 18:07 (eleven months ago) link

Grant's house caught fire in January 2011, and partially burned down. Who knows, he may have been literally homeless!

Coagulopath, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 21:54 (eleven months ago) link

Is the house shown in the documentary EVERY EVERYTHING what burned down?

Curious about his daughter, too, who I think is in her 30’s now.

beamish13, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 22:39 (eleven months ago) link

At some point between '99 and '01 Grant came to the town I lived in to hang out and play a couple of shows with some mutual friends over a few days. And then I guess he just didn't want to leave? He was on the couch of one of the guys in that band for at least a week, apparently never really leaving the living room until night, and that guy's roommates were sick of it. So my friend had to ask one of his favorite musicians to please leave his house and find somewhere else to go. Pretty sure he just left town at that point.

I was too timid to say anything to Grant other than "hey, good show" but I did have to go to my friend's house for some reason that week and Grant was just laying on his couch in the other room the whole time I was there.

charlie brown from outta town (GM), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 23:16 (eleven months ago) link

Picked up a copy of the remix of Nova Mob's Last Days of Pompeii, one, they did an incredible job with the remix, a very tasteful improvement over the original

Also, it's such a great record, definitely should be considered one of the major post Husker Du works

one month passes...

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