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

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

― kl0ppa john's (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, January 21, 2013 6:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

trailer for every everything, which is worth it for the adorable footage of grant giggling on a couch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHCcY-Jwxg

to clarify -- young grant giggling on a couch

Omg will see that movie so fuckin hard!!!

i assume this will be better than "color me obsessed." it couldn't possibly be any worse.

I hope so too. Hack docs make me sad.

it looks... hacky to me. hope to be proven wrong though.

If the subject is close enough to my heart I become unable to tell if its a hack doc or not. I wept at the Scott walker doc and that was not a well made film, eg.

I probably wouldn't go out of my way to see it in a theater, but I'd watch it at home. I didn't watch the Replacements doc because I don't need to see a bunch of people talking about how much they like a band. BUT Grant is part of this doc and the trailer was cute so hey -- I'd give it a shot.

Also, I have high doc standards, it's true.

I trudged through the Replacements doc, and it was endlessly frustrating. But there were a few glimmers of new/interesting information, like how DTaS was remixed against their will...which, granted, anyone coulda guessed...yeah, never mind.

I'd see this, though, hacky or otherwise, just to see how he's doing.

few glimmers of new/interesting information
solo westerberg lol

grant seems to be doing fine! new album coming out soon btw!!

Saw Bob Mould last night. I know very little of his own work--all I have is File Under: Easy Listening, and all I remember from that is "Your Favorite Thing." Anyway, the show started really well: the first song was about "relax" or "react," then something about "it's a good thing/she said" (or maybe "success"), then a song from Warehouse (the titles always blur with me). The middle part wandered a bit, with one song that went on forever, but he did mix in "I Apologize" and "Your Favorite Thing." Best of all was the last encore. He started with a promise that "If you're within five years of my age, you'll recognize this right away," lead-in to the Viletones' "Screamin' Fist." Great local touch--he even shared vocals with some guy who my friend told me was Steven Leckie's nephew. Then he finished with "Flip Your Wig"/"Hate Paper Doll"/"Makes No Sense at All". That was a perfect ending for me--either he agrees with me that FYW was Husker Du's greatest album (not New Day Rising, and especially not Zen Arcade), or that's the one that for whatever reason carries the least amount of baggage for him.

grant seems to be doing fine! new album coming out soon btw!!

Man, Grant has had a new album coming out for forever.

BTW, saw some Hart interview with this new (to me) nugget:

GH: “The current situation with SST is not good but will get brighter. Greg Ginn (SST founder) is actually suing the band for overpayment of royalties. A World Turned Upside Down.”

Then he finished with "Flip Your Wig"/"Hate Paper Doll"/"Makes No Sense at All". That was a perfect ending for me--either he agrees with me that FYW was Husker Du's greatest album (not New Day Rising, and especially not Zen Arcade), or that's the one that for whatever reason carries the least amount of baggage for him.

"As far as Flip Your Wig goes, I’m on record as saying that’s my favorite Hüsker Dü album."

Sounds like the first two were "The Act We Act" and "A Good Idea", the first two from Copper Blue.

Copper Blue was a Sugar album, clemenza. Sugar was the band that Mould started after Husker Du.

And here I thought he had gone off and formed Cutting Crew--thanks.

So Flip Your Wig is his favorite. I thought about it some, and I should amend what I wrote above: I think it's his best Husker Du album. My favourite Grant songs are scattered across the others.

Just giving you some grief.

I laughed! Except I should have said "And here I thought he had gone off and formed Bruce Hornsby & the Range."

Flip Your Wig is Husker's Green River: you've just managed to catch your breath after New Day Rising/Bayou Country, this just-as-amazing work comes along mere months later, and before you can fully absorb it, it's quickly followed up by the nearly-as-amazing Willy and the Poorboys/Candy Apple Grey. So, by no fault of its own, it sometimes gets lost in the shuffle.

I suppose it does sound bizarre that someone who loves Husker Du, and who bought most of their albums as they came out, would have had no interest in Mould's post-Husker work. (Even File Under I didn't buy until many years later.) I'm not sure, though, if that's any weirder than someone who loves the Rolling Stones having no interest in a Mick Jagger album, or a Who fan and a Peter Towhshend album, etc. The Husker Du story had a nice, full-stop ending for me. At the time, I didn't need to hear any more--plus, after years of primarily listening to indie and punk rock, I had also started to pay attention to Top 40 again.

Good point about how compressed their release schedule was.

"He started off with some song that went 'If I ever get out of here something something something' and then segued into another one about a guy named Jeff."

It seemed downright bizarre at the time. I remember seeing a print ad for a local record store that featured Candy Apple Grey among the new releases. I thought for sure it was a misprint, since it felt like FYW had just come out. Adding to the confusion was the Warners logo.

xp

I wasn't there for Husker Du (I was for Sugar), but it seems like it would've been totally disorienting to buy New Day Rising the day it comes out and then see them the next week performing mostly songs from Flip Your Wig.

I mean, you don't have to be Ricky Nelson playing at a Garden Party, but playing the next album a year before it's released is something else.

And to follow up CAG with another double a few months later...Starting with Everything Falls Apart, their release schedule goes 1/83, 10/83, 7/84, 1/85, 8/85, 3/86, 1/87. I remember one of those Creem special issues where the writer was going through the Rolling Stones discography album by album, and at one point he stopped himself and said, "Wow--they sure did churn them out in those days."

Oh man, I woulda been so bummed if I had gotten a Dü medley and Hate Paper Doll was 1/3 of it! I also can't believe you only have 1 post-Huskers and it's that one!? Glad you enjoyed the show even if I would have left disappointed (However, Good Idea is one of my favorite Sugar songs even if it is kind of a fake Pixies song...it's a good one!)

I have Grant's first couple of records too. And I plan to mail away for a menu from Greg's restaurant.

get one of them to hug you and you will be fully redeemed!

GH: “The current situation with SST is not good but will get brighter. Greg Ginn (SST founder) is actually suing the band for overpayment of royalties. A World Turned Upside Down."

hahahahaha don't ever change, greg. this tactic REALLY didn't work with meat puppets.

clemenza, you really should hear sugar's first, copper blue, and the follow-up mini-LP beaster; they're both fantastic.

First part of the encore I mentioned above, posted by the guy who shared vocals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUN3tkKAk8I&feature=youtu.be

He's a local guy who wrote a book about Toronto punk--no idea what my friend's talking about.

Will pick up the next used copy of Copper Blue I see. I think Christgau ripping into Mould's first couple of solo albums probably played a part in my avoiding Sugar at the time.