Gotta Make Polls for the Polls I Make - ILM HUSKER DU POLL RESULTS

Thanks! I don't think he's headed to the UK this time out, but I imagine he'll tour the new record when it comes out in the new year.

That interview is amazing

can't decide whether my favorite part is the amateur veterinarian bit or his explanation of why husker du can't reunite

i am saving the remainder of that interview to read once i get a thing or two done, as a reward. it's that enjoyable!

Amazing interview, mac. Amazing subject.

Good interview.

I've mentioned before, albeit elliptically, that my understanding is that the last impediment to reissues has been removed, and that while the project is about as close to the start as could be, it should happen, possibly via an unexpected source.

I can't tell if you know something or you're just really good at writing horoscopes.

I once got a fortune cookie that read: "Of all the fortunate, you are the chosen one."

Josh - elliptically - I've had similar hints confirmed by, I'm guessing, a similar source. Fingers X'd, eh.

Then again, I love how my crappy CDs sound just fine!

Great interview, what a nice Monday morning present after having listened to lotsa Huskers over the weekend.

New Day Rising (in bed)
Flexible Flyer (in bed)
Could You Be the One (in bed)
Everything Falls Apart (in bed)
Dead Set on Destruction (in bed)

No Promise Have I Made (with a knife)

that nursing home incident sounds awful and like an awful lot to handle, not to mention the house fire and the cats. what a great interview! he is so forthright and generous with details. i can't wait to see him in january!

What was the accident with Nova Mob?

Yeah that was new to me too

I neglected the Nova Mob details when I was compiling things: there was a van accident while the band was on tour in Germany in 1992, nothing major but it marked a bit of a turning point I think.

I can't believe I missed this thread!

Actually, I can believe it, I'm just bummed about it.

Nice work pp!

where you been dg, been growing out my handlebar.

really starting to convince myself that "i'll never forget you" has all the hallmarks of what made this band so great: too far cast into unhinged disregard to even begin to give a fuck about whether people are going to find it too abrasive, barked out with mouth foaming and each livid notion bleeding into the next, unflinchingly candid and pitched directly from the gut. i can't listen to the mellower songs with their more by-degrees contours in the same way.

anyway:

1. First of the Last Calls
2. Eight Miles High
3. I'll Never Forget You
4. Pink Turns to Blue
5. Divide and Conquer
6. Diane
7. Celebrated Summer
8. Whatever
9. Makes No Sense at All
10. Don't Want to Know if You are Lonely
11. New Day Rising
12. Ice Cold Ice
13. Powerline
14. The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill
15. These Important Years
16. Something I Learned Today
17. Green Eyes
18. Chartered Trips
19. Sorry Somehow
20. What's Going on

Ah, there's another Powerline.

Josh - elliptically - I've had similar hints confirmed by, I'm guessing, a similar source. Fingers X'd, eh.

Me, too.

I have to say, it makes me nervous how much they seem to actively dislike their original mixes. I can imagine a Husker reissue series as the musical equivalent of the Star Wars reissue.

Then again, I had no idea until this thread that "In a Free Land" was remixed for the Everything Falls Apart CD, and that's a huge improvement.

I wouldn't be opposed to a full Warehouse remix.

we'll still have our shitty original CDs!

while researching my black flag book a few years back, i argued to joe carducci that the sst stuff needed remastering, a suggestion with which he furiously disagreed. but the merge versions of the first coupla dinosaur albums sound so much better than the sst ones (same w/the meat puppets).

stevie-- sorry to sidetrack but I was looking at your book through the Shop function of my Nook the other day and there are two e-versions available-- one about $5 more than the other. Is one like the 'hardback' with more pictures and the other the 'paperback'?

Oh jeepers, I'm not sure - could be that the US edition, which has a different publisher, is the same text & pix but at a similar price... Let me find out for you.

Your book is a beautiful read Stevie Chick. Thanks

Aw thanks, Jessie...

Ps just waiting on a confirmation re: the nook version of the book, Jon.

From Facebook:
Saturday, December 22, 2012, 8:00pm until 1:00am, Grumpy's Bar: Grant Hart presents what will easily go down as his magnum opus, "The Argument" (according to us). Come on down for this FREE event. Meet Grant, hear the record spun in it's entirety and watch a live set!

Jon! Am reliably informed that both ebook versions of Spray Paint are identical, so I recommend purchasing the cheaper one!

cool! Thanks for investigating!

Today I was walking past the venue where GH will be playing, and I saw this
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8223/8278552504_93c3b4fdfa.jpg

then I uploaded it to flickr and saw one of my contacts there had recently uploaded this from a book called "The Bears on Hemlock Mountain"
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8224/8273105575_d988effc91.jpg

and I thought of this thread. The end.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/46382_10151329759590699_1782333265_n.jpg

hahaha, just saw that Mould posted that!

Good show last night!!! He played a lot of solo stuff, incl a bunch from Hot Wax (he played My Regrets on my request!), and maybe this is a normal thing, but he sang 2541 with totally different lyrics about the 1840s? He begrudgingly played Flexible Flyer and a few other Dü songs ill-suited to the solo-with-guitar setup (also on request) and was having some guitar probs but was affable in spite of them. There were plenty of people there, but I was among the most enthusiastic. Not surprisingly I guess. I found it charming that he changed into his performance shoes, and he complimented me on my shoes as well. After the show we talked a little bit about his new album with the Irish musicians (which I knew all about thanks to the interview above!!!) and he said that he wants to start playing for "the ballet crowd" and not spend the rest of his life in (gestures around his head) "places like this."

This picture is not the best, but you can see how kind and warm he was. I think I was grabbing his arm pretty hard and he didn't complain.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8073/8375908290_82dc1bd9f0_c.jpg

Holy crap, that totally rules.

right on!

Got a ticket to see Bob Mould in March, which'll be the first time since I saw Husker Du in '87.

You got a hug in!

I know! At the last minute too. One dude ran up to him and planted one on GH's cheek while we were talking.

I hope clemenza tries to kiss Bob.

I posted quickly yesterday, and didn't notice your photo till later, La Lechera--that is pretty great. Lighting aside, Hart looks so incredibly different. (I think I'll be content to exchange one of those furtive little funeral-nods from Seinfeld with Bob.)

I have several other photos, just don't want to post them here! One is on facebook and the rest are on flickr. I'll send you a link if you wanna see them!

Also that's the one where you could see my zeal the most. I posted this one to wdyll -- you can see him better here. I think he was playing "Green Eyes" at the time, but I don't know for sure (heheh)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8492/8374842273_459a2005d6_c.jpg

i don't know what he was playing because that's me with the white shoes -- someone else took the picture

If you can put a Flickr link here, that'd be nice. That's neat how in the last photo, they've set a giant beer can in front of the stage.

glad you got to see grant! that sounds about like most...um...good vibe...grant shows! but yeah he's still totally riveting i think. new album should be good i heard bits of it from a friend.

he's really charming to talk to.

Crossposting from another thread:

new song unearthed!!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/husker-du-rerelease-lost-statues-song-premiere-20130121

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