I Will Never Forget You \/ What Do I Want? \/ Data Control \/ Drug Party \/ Out On A Limb<\/a><\/p>\nA scorching set played to a local audience performed by Husker Du, a band that inspired 100’s of guitar bands later on in the 1980’s, setting the ante with the LP’s ‘Zen Arcade’ and ‘New Day Rising’. Not many bands ever reached the artistic peak of Husker Du, alas many copycat bands way surpassed\u00a0Husker Du’s\u00a0commercial heights.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bob Mould met up with friends Grant Hart and Greg Norton in a Minneapolis Record Store. Realising a common interest in The Ramones, the friends started practising together in 1979, just when U.S. Hardcore was on the cusp of breaking out of the underground into a larger network of venues, fanzines and an increase of released recorded material\u00a0around all the states of the U.S. Bands like Black Flag, The Dead Kennedy’s, Bad Brains, The Minutemen\u00a0were the new breed, compared to X, The Avengers, Weirdo’s and the rest of the original 1976\/1977 outfits. Husker Du fitted into this era with ease playing just fast enough to be accepted at hardcore gigs, headlining or supporting. What Husker Du also had in the armoury apart from speed was a strong sense of melody, learned from British bands like The Beatles, which was shown on released recordings very early on for the Reflex label from 1980. The band were snapped up by the larger and worldwide distributed S.S.T. Records in 1983. This label released the strongest Husker Du\u00a0material including ‘Zen Arcade’, one of the top five in the best LP’s ever released catagory (in the Penguin collection at least).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even during the major label years with Warner Brothers from 1986 to 1987, the material never lost integrity. The last LP released ‘Warehouse Stories’ just before the break up of the band, was an immense rollorcoaster ride of emotions twinned with sugar-sweet melodies cut deep into every groove.<\/p>\n
The band disbanded amongst a huge rift between the two main songsmiths (and past lovers) Mould and Hart. Petty jealousies mixed\u00a0up with far too much brown, copius amounts of sulphate\u00a0and the suicide of the manager\u00a0David Savoy, all turned the already sensitive souls that made up Husker Du to breaking point, then to bursting point, then end of the line for all parties.<\/p>\n
Bit of a bummer really, could have been bigger than The Clash! Still the Husker Du legacy remains in bands including the mighty R.E.M, The Replacements, Soul Asylum, Pixies and of course Nirvana.<\/p>\n
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