Speaking of Eleventh Dream Day. I’ve been a fan since their first EP which, as far as a I know has never been release digitally. I’m not talking about The Wayne EP which was tacked onto the end of the great Prairie School Freakout digital release. (available on eMusic)
I’m talking about the self titled one that starts out with Walking Through the Barrel of a Gun.
Does anyone know where I can find this digitally? I have it on wax, in a box, under other boxes, in the garage and don’t have one of those wax-to-ones-and-zeroes gizmos.
I saw the Huskers play the 9:30 club, and they totally opened a can of 100-megaton whomp on the audience. A big part of the reason was bass player dude’s fully rockin’ ‘tude. Nice to find a clip that showcases the band’s secret weapon so nicely.
What are cowboy chords? From watching his hands, I always thought Mould must be playing alternate tunings or something. I almost put ‘duct tape holding the strap in place’ in today’s poll, and now I wish I had. It’s always good to see him when he still had hair and was still a chunklet. He still plays I Apologize live to this day (it’s on his new live DVD). But Girl on Heaven Hill reminds me of the Nick Lowe rule I’ve often quoted — drummers should not sing, unless they’re Levon Helm. Good song, though.
Scroll around on that YouTube screen and you get Husker Du on a Minneapolis morning talk show, playing a couple of bits of songs and doing an interview with a guy who, considering he probably usually interviews housewives and cats, does a decent job:
“Cowboy chords” is a term I picked up from E. Pluribus Gergely, meaning open chords. He’s playing a standard open G chord on that Flying V, for instance. I sounds as bad as I remember it sounding years ago. I’m not saying there’s not a place for open chords, just that there’s rarely a place for them when playing a muddy, distorted Flying V.
man…watching these hüsker vids is really bringing back fond memories.
that said, they’re about as dated sounding to their era as the jefferson airplane are to theirs. i mean that in the nicest possible way. i love those songs.
rick, on that minneapolis youtube philly earns a special distinction!
interviewer: in what cities have crowds rioted when you played?
mould: western mass, new york, london…..every show in philadelphia.
and it’s the truth, man!
fritz, what year was the 9.30 show? i saw them twice there in the mid 80s.
Saturn, it would’ve been their “New Day Rising” tour, so I’m guessing, what, 1985? I was the really cool guy in the leather jacket and mirrored sunglasses, surrounded by chicks with really big boobs.
No, wait, I was the skinny kid standing next to Charlie.
Man that video sucks. I’ll admit that they were powerful “and important to the scene man!” but they never floated my boat. We got to play with them and the Minutemen up on 4th and Brown once. Nice fellows all but I just wasn’t into the Husker’s music much (I love the Minutemen though). If you watch the Minutemen DVD “We Jam Econo” you’ll learn that the bass player now runs a Mexican restaurant.
Interesting that the gay element about them was never discussed among the scene back then (that I know of). Times have changed much in that regard.
i remember that song from ‘eat your paisley’….2 feet off the ground, right?
“light up a smoke! (doo doo doo doo doo), cuz life aint no joke (doo doo doo doo doo)”.
as if that song wasn’t brilliantly funny enough, joe jack would sing “we love hüsker dü” instead of “doo doo doo doo doo” in that deadpan way of his: even funnier.
as far as their homosexulaity is concerned, i remember the fact that they were gay being a big deal, but i also have no recollection whatsoever of them talking about it…ever.
i also remember frequently witnessing punker astonishment at the realization that “the guy with the ‘stache ISN’T gay”.
Saturnismine, the “amazing coincidence” is a reference to Gary Waleik discussing Big Dipper’s fondness for covering this song.
As you know, like Mrclean, I had little interest in Husker Du. I did see them live once, and I liked them better that way. I was right against the stage, and I think I passed out for a few minutes. Sethro and I had been drinking some ridiculous combo of weight-loss shakes and vodka. I don’t know why I was so curious about finding new mixers back then.
Saturnismine: Yep! Joe was/is a big Husker Du fan.
The Wikipedia entry on drummer Hart is interesting. Even before reading it I was gonna say he was the “hippie” in the band. I think that one of the reasons I didn’t dig the Du was his steady metronome-ic shuffle style of drumming (and the bare feet too).
Man, even with the sound turned down, watching Mould play cowboy chords on that Flying V hurts my ears.
Speaking of Eleventh Dream Day. I’ve been a fan since their first EP which, as far as a I know has never been release digitally. I’m not talking about The Wayne EP which was tacked onto the end of the great Prairie School Freakout digital release. (available on eMusic)
I’m talking about the self titled one that starts out with Walking Through the Barrel of a Gun.
Does anyone know where I can find this digitally? I have it on wax, in a box, under other boxes, in the garage and don’t have one of those wax-to-ones-and-zeroes gizmos.
I saw the Huskers play the 9:30 club, and they totally opened a can of 100-megaton whomp on the audience. A big part of the reason was bass player dude’s fully rockin’ ‘tude. Nice to find a clip that showcases the band’s secret weapon so nicely.
I saw them in a bar with 12 other people and they kicked it. I’ve always thought their strength was Greg’s bass. Plus I dig his stache.
What are cowboy chords? From watching his hands, I always thought Mould must be playing alternate tunings or something. I almost put ‘duct tape holding the strap in place’ in today’s poll, and now I wish I had. It’s always good to see him when he still had hair and was still a chunklet. He still plays I Apologize live to this day (it’s on his new live DVD). But Girl on Heaven Hill reminds me of the Nick Lowe rule I’ve often quoted — drummers should not sing, unless they’re Levon Helm. Good song, though.
Scroll around on that YouTube screen and you get Husker Du on a Minneapolis morning talk show, playing a couple of bits of songs and doing an interview with a guy who, considering he probably usually interviews housewives and cats, does a decent job:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dbdEcX1ct0
“Cowboy chords” is a term I picked up from E. Pluribus Gergely, meaning open chords. He’s playing a standard open G chord on that Flying V, for instance. I sounds as bad as I remember it sounding years ago. I’m not saying there’s not a place for open chords, just that there’s rarely a place for them when playing a muddy, distorted Flying V.
man…watching these hüsker vids is really bringing back fond memories.
that said, they’re about as dated sounding to their era as the jefferson airplane are to theirs. i mean that in the nicest possible way. i love those songs.
rick, on that minneapolis youtube philly earns a special distinction!
interviewer: in what cities have crowds rioted when you played?
mould: western mass, new york, london…..every show in philadelphia.
and it’s the truth, man!
fritz, what year was the 9.30 show? i saw them twice there in the mid 80s.
question: what’s the “amazing coincidence”?
Saturn, it would’ve been their “New Day Rising” tour, so I’m guessing, what, 1985? I was the really cool guy in the leather jacket and mirrored sunglasses, surrounded by chicks with really big boobs.
No, wait, I was the skinny kid standing next to Charlie.
Man that video sucks. I’ll admit that they were powerful “and important to the scene man!” but they never floated my boat. We got to play with them and the Minutemen up on 4th and Brown once. Nice fellows all but I just wasn’t into the Husker’s music much (I love the Minutemen though). If you watch the Minutemen DVD “We Jam Econo” you’ll learn that the bass player now runs a Mexican restaurant.
Interesting that the gay element about them was never discussed among the scene back then (that I know of). Times have changed much in that regard.
mrclean,
i remember that song from ‘eat your paisley’….2 feet off the ground, right?
“light up a smoke! (doo doo doo doo doo), cuz life aint no joke (doo doo doo doo doo)”.
as if that song wasn’t brilliantly funny enough, joe jack would sing “we love hüsker dü” instead of “doo doo doo doo doo” in that deadpan way of his: even funnier.
as far as their homosexulaity is concerned, i remember the fact that they were gay being a big deal, but i also have no recollection whatsoever of them talking about it…ever.
i also remember frequently witnessing punker astonishment at the realization that “the guy with the ‘stache ISN’T gay”.
no way!!! weird!!!
Saturnismine, the “amazing coincidence” is a reference to Gary Waleik discussing Big Dipper’s fondness for covering this song.
As you know, like Mrclean, I had little interest in Husker Du. I did see them live once, and I liked them better that way. I was right against the stage, and I think I passed out for a few minutes. Sethro and I had been drinking some ridiculous combo of weight-loss shakes and vodka. I don’t know why I was so curious about finding new mixers back then.
Saturnismine: Yep! Joe was/is a big Husker Du fan.
The Wikipedia entry on drummer Hart is interesting. Even before reading it I was gonna say he was the “hippie” in the band. I think that one of the reasons I didn’t dig the Du was his steady metronome-ic shuffle style of drumming (and the bare feet too).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Hart