Are there ANY plans to reissue Husker Du?

:'(

bob and grant need to sort out their beefs with each other before they can sort out the legal beefs

There was a recent interview with Grant where he said him and Bob don't hate each other any more but he layed into Greg instead.

OK, now that my turntable is back up and running, another reason to go out and buy vintage VINYL!

Does vinyl really help sound quality with respect to hardcore acts like Husker Du?

lol at turning on Greg!

"his food sucks!"

Grant answered a load of fan questions recently on his myspace and remasters didn't sound like they'd be a priority for him from his general tone re: husker

weird because i saw grant open for mike watt in the fall and greg came out and joined both grant, mike w., and mike's band for a big all star jam on "little johnny jewel"....

a couple of friends have been to greg's restaurant and apparently he's an amazing chef

is it greg ginn grant has beef with, rather than greg norton?

LOL @ that confusion.

No it was Greg Norton, not Ginn.

http://www.blurt-online.com/features/view/520

:3(

Haha that interview is hilarious. He's always come off as such a douche.

It was Greg Ginn when I interviewed Grant back in '03 before booking him at the dive bar I was deputy soundguy. He went on about Ginn for a while.

someone like Frank Black who would be eventually bigger in terms of record sales than Husker Du had been, would look back and fool themselves into thinking they were more important or more influential. Maybe more people heard you, but you're not more influential than that which influenced you.
hmmm

http://www.harneyre.com/CountryJournal/Images/SourGrapesPosterSmall.jpg

or which you were influenced by that which has influenced you when you were being influenced by their influence if you ya know what I mean.

jeez grant can be mean

um...there are some statements he makes in there "interesting" to say the least wrt his personal problems

reading about Husker always bums me out. To have made a bunch of really good/great records and to have such a sour taste in your mouth (plus lame-o business problems) about it is kinda sad.

Ok, after spending a couple of days a/b-ing vinyl rips vs. the CD's, I really don't hear any huge difference. The solution to the sonic problems is simple: when you turn it up loud it sounds great. When you don't turn it up loud, it does not sound great. That's it. Problem solved.

wow that interview. what a dick.

http://www.thenortonsrestaurant.com/2006-03-31_Nortons_-_57.jpg

who could say mean stuff about this guy??

i have no doubt he is the nicest member of husker du

seriously

rollie fingers that is

Just smoke a little before you listen to the cds. This works great, especially with Zen Arcade.

Do you ever feel like your contributions to Husker Du are overlooked?

This isn't thrown out as a condemnation of Bob, but I think that my fans know my material better than a lot of Bob's fans know his material. The reason I say that is every time I've gone to see a Bob Mould concert, someone has yelled out the name of one of my songs. When I'm out touring, I maybe hear that one out of five concerts.

i'm not sure that this is what it means?

http://i49.tinypic.com/14cz30x.jpg

Should Husker Du make that decision, and I recognize that's a slim chance, I'd like to think we'd do it for a cause greater than financial remuneration. . . . There was nothing sadder than being around in 1992 or 1993 and watching people like Smashing Pumpkins or Stone Temple Pilots make millions and millions of dollars. That was when the vacuum we created was really obvious.

Yeesh.

Does Greg cook mostly Pringles-based dishes?

http://metadiary.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/beefsteak-charlie-resize.jpg

look for yourself!

http://www.thenortonsrestaurant.com/Dinner%20Menu.htm

looks good!

"I don't care what you say, I don't care what you're drinking today"

http://www.thenortonsrestaurant.com/2006-03-31_Nortons_-_4.jpg

Wish it was a theme restaurant. "I'll have the pork chops with Candy Apple Gravy and a New Beer Rising, please."

Is that a Suicide Commandos record on the wall behind the bar?

Yep, right below The Suburbs "In Combo."

The apostrophe is misplaced on "The Norton's" logo.

Nobody who saw the band live would for a second doubt Greg's contribution. I've talked to all three over the past dozen years, and stopped reporting what they say about each other: Why enable this stuff?

greg and the guy who just left the hold steady should tour together as "the mustachios"

So, you've been clean for a long time?

[My addiction problems] were drawing to a close at the time Husker Du broke up. One of the things that made it possible for me to make those changes was removing that band and influence from my life.

love grant hart's music, but i'm skeptical of this claim to longstanding sobriety

Okay folks, here we go...

http://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/547854997/first-listen-husker-du-savage-young-du

Great story from M. Matos and a full preview listen of all three discs of the Numero box. Go nuts.

i feel bad for spot that every single review of these reissues will mention how bad he was at his job

in a way i'm quite glad that the release of this was stalled until the first year of our lord trump, cos though they've never really been my go-to for social critique, the lyrics on the early stuff really resonate right now

i mean like

why bother spending time
reading up on things
everybody's an authority
in a free land

christ, yeah.

never really though about the sonic similarity between 'statues' and 'you can live at home' before, two quite atypical huskers songs, but also the first and last track they released

today i watched a top of the pops story of 1984 thing on youtube and it reminded me that i played my "smalltown boy" 12-inch about....500 times that year. and then it occurred to me that the album i played the most in 1984 was probably zen arcade. and then it dawned on me how much these two things had in common.

the lyrics on the early stuff really resonate right now
i have always felt this way!! they have good political songs imo. turn on the news, divide and conquer, they're all great!!

xp that's a good spot scott!

There's a certain purity of vision to early Huskers, as there is with much punk and hardcore, but it's really about setting the stage for the real story. Not sure it has much of a story to tell itself any more than, say, the Suicide Commandos boxed set did. As hyped as I am to get any Husker Du set, this seems like mostly archaeology/anthropology.

Though I dunno, Everything Falls Apart And More sounding pretty good right now ... I wonder how much a total newcomer would be into this set if they knew nothing of the later stuff (as unlikely as such a scenario might be)?