RIP Grant Hart

whoa I never knew Rykodisc was from MP/SP

xxp
ha, I was hugely obsessed with Ohio bands in the 90s, so it cuts both ways.

I don't think they started here but they were based here for ahwile...there is a reason Sugar was on the label.

Ryko had a huge warehouse here, like half of the music scene worked there at some point

some extra stories that didn't make the main city pages story, including the one i related here

http://www.citypages.com/music/lighting-m-80s-with-big-black-feeding-camembert-to-cats-friends-share-favorite-grant-hart-stories/445908383

thanks for the link to the article UMS. those first two paragraphs are crushing :(

i bought that yanomamos record that grant drummed on when it came out, it was ...not really what i was expecting

JJJ& cbesinger quoted in the second piece as well

Second piece just as good as the first. The Atmosphere and Albini stories especially are just fucking delightful. But now I'm crying again

(might have something to do with you can live at home now having come up on my headphones)

oh and jesus christ the off the cuff village green parody! <3 grant <3

re prince / huskers - i like to imagine someone commissioning an ep with grant singing 'the cross' on one side and prince doing 'you can live at home now' on the other. if there's a heaven above...

A huge theater, arts, and comedy scene here as well, especially in the 80s, all of which I think is important.

See also: MST3K.

re prince / huskers - i like to imagine someone commissioning an ep with grant singing 'the cross' on one side and prince doing 'you can live at home now' on the other. if there's a heaven above...

― plp will eat itself (NickB), Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:16 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh my god

yclahn final section definitely has a bassline prince might like (and which doesn't really have any kindred in huskers discography?)

Can anyone comment on the remastered version of Intolerance (the one with Sic Semper Tyrannus on the cover)? Is it preferable to the SST?

It sounds good, though the only other vers I heard of "Intolerance" was my old cassette copy so not sure if that's exactly audio apples to apples as it were.

The remix/remaster of "Last Days of Pompeii" is crucial

ahem...

If I were a rock and roll timelord, I'd go back to the 80s and create a Night Ranger/Husker Du split 7" with Night Ranger doing "Don't Want to Know if Your Lonely" and Husker Du doing "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" in their respected styles.

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I hadn't shed any actual tears about this whole thing, until I read the City Pages article on the train to work his morning and totally welled up. Kudos to all involved in putting it together, I'll be saving it in my Minneapolis rock memorabilia box.

Greg Dulli played "Keep Hanging On" at First Ave last night. It was beautiful.

btw I think this detail from the City Pages article isn't getting enough attention, very exciting

After this news, Hart continued moving forward in the face of finality. He and his former bandmates finally agreed on a deal with the Chicago reissue label Numero Group to release Savage Young Dü, a box set of material from Hüsker Dü’s pre-SST days. And Hart continued recording music. He, Mansfield, and Piotrowski completed the first Yanomamos album since that boom box recording back in 1989, and he’d been working with Wisti on Pop Manifestos, a concept album based on Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. (In accordance with Hart’s wishes, both projects will be released posthumously.)

xpost The thing that always kept Grant Hart and Bob Mould united in my mind was the amount of space and detail they could summon with just an electric guitar at solo shows. Dulli captured that.

did he play it solo or did the band play too?

Solo, before the band came back out for the encore. Har Mar Superstar (who opened) sang some harmonies.

1) Schoolbuses Are For Children is so great
2) The opening part sounds very similar to the opening notes of "I Can't Make You Love Me" and as it turns out, the emotional effect is totally transferable
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmRyeEgO59M

also love that pic

i wanna be in a grant hart tribute band so bad

That song also reminds me of some Bowie song I can't quite place. xxp

His late singing really reminds me of Bowie a lot. Something about the inflection and the way he drew out words.

I was just thinking that while listening to the argument last week! There really is a tincture of Bowie in his voice there!

^^ Same. Even had to remind myself that it was released three years before Black Star.

So good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCBd7e0wCBQ

^And just to make it personal, this is about as good as anything Sugar ever did.

I loved that Nova Mob album at the time. Dug it out a few weeks ago and it stands up.

^And just to make it personal, this is about as good as anything Sugar ever did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cejMKLwT-Y

Full setlist:

Never Talking to You Again (Hüsker Dü song)
Flip Your Wig (Hüsker Dü song)
I Apologize (Hüsker Dü song)
A Good Idea (Sugar song)
Changes (Sugar song)
The Descent
I Don't Know You Anymore
Hold On
If I Can't Change Your Mind (Sugar song)
Hoover Dam (Sugar song)
Hey Mr. Grey
Love Is All Around (Sonny Curtis cover)
Makes No Sense at All (Hüsker Dü song)

(This was an outdoor gig a couple days ago in San Francisco)

grant did old empire quite frequently in his solo sets, also last days of pompeii & admiral of the sea

Wow, that's a lot more older songs than he usually plays. and I don't remember him playing "Flip Your Wig" recently.

oh man "Never Talking to You Again," I don't know how to take that

That's a cool version of it.

I was wondering the same thing though. When they picked songs of each other for Karl Mueller's benefit, that's the one Bob went for then as well.

It's like

"Hey, Bob. Just wondering. What would be your favorite Grant –"
"NEVER TALKING TO YOU AGAIN."

And didn't Grant choose an all too apropos Bob song that night? Hardly Getting Over It?

Since his concerted effort sort of comeback Bob has been playing a lot more Husker Du the last few years. I saw him solo earlier this year and was actually sort of bummed how little the setlist changed from night to night, given all the stuff he could play. He did play a handful of really early HD songs, iirc.

Yeah, this is what Bob did in April:

Hoover Dam
Your Favorite Thing
Losing Time
See a Little Light
The War
I Apologize
The Descent
You Say You
Lonely Afternoon
Sinners and Their Repentances
Stand Guard
Chartered Trips
Hardly Getting Over It
Flip Your Wig
Voices in my Head
Hold On
If I Can't Change Your Mind
Daddy's Favorite
Black Confetti

Encore:
Love Is All Around
In a Free Land

ahhhhh great closer

that second nova mob lp is great. my copy is scratched to absolute fuck from playing it to death back in the day, but I dug it out again when Grant died, and a sturdy new needle ensured I could make it through If I Was Afraid/Coda, still one of my favourite Grant songs

The Story of Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart, in His Own Words: In one of his final interviews, the late drummer recounts his family’s troubled history and his most formative early life experiences, including the death of a beloved brother.

This was great. A Grant Hart memoir would have been wonderful. I look forward to spending some quality time with those sleevenotes.

really nice Grant story from a new interview with Dean Spunt (No Age):

STEREOGUM: I guess my last question is: I know you go deep into the history of punk rock, and you and Randy are big fans of Hüsker Dü. As a singing drummer, did you feel any spiritual kinship with the late Grant Hart?

SPUNT: Yes definitely, if you haven’t noticed (Laughs)... I became friendly with Grant. And not so much that he was a singing drummer. I started playing drums and singing not because of Grant Hart, but because of a necessity and I didn’t really know how to drum, I didn’t really know how to sing, I didn’t really know how to put those things together, so for me it was important to try it as an exercise and that’s how I’ve always done things. I tried it out, I didn’t really know what I was doing. But we did become friends, and it’s heartbreaking.

STEREOGUM: I know No Age has played with Bob Mould, but I didn’t know you knew Hart. Are there any memories you would like to share?

SPUNT: Yeah, we played a festival with him in Rotterdam and he played this brilliant solo set, so moving. And we went back to the hotel we were staying at, and me and my friends and Grant, we were all in front of this hotel, and this kid walked by us. He was probably 18 or 19, and he was from there, and he looked at us and was like, “Hey, you fuckin’ Americans!” And he was super aggressive. I wouldn’t say I was frightened he was gonna fight us, but he was drunk and really angry and looked like he wanted to punch us. And Grant put his cigarette down and walked up to him and said, “Hey man, what’s your story?” The kid spoke English, he was like, “What?!” And Grant’s like, “What’s your story, man?” You know, “What’s making you like this, tell me about your father.” And we ended up talking to him for like 20 minutes. He almost brought the kid to tears, he became putty in Grant’s hand, the way he totally shaped this kid’s environment. Just his whole world had turned around. The kid left, I think we all gave hugs, me and my buddy were like, “Damn, man that was intense,” and it was really beautiful.

https://www.stereogum.com/1979361/no-ages-dean-spunt-on-their-new-album-navigating-the-industry-the-late-grant-hart/franchises/interview/

wow

eternal <3 for the generous spirit of grant hart