Husker Du, live or on record, are a walking allit- eration for the word: maelstrom. A gtr/bass wash of sound with multi-layered vocals/screaming-- coming/exiting at different times and different paces. They often collide. All of this is then pounded silly by Grant, the drummer. In concert Greg can still casually draw on a cigarette and re-strap his guitar.Land Speed Record has a night- marish intensity, but lately so does life. H/D know.
C.R.: How did you get in touch with New Alliance? Greg: Well, we had a live tape and we played it for Black Flag and they liked it, so they in turn played it for the Minutemen, then the Minutemen played it for New Alliance. They heard the tape and they really liked the band. When we got back to Minneapolis we asked ourselves, "How in the hell are we going to put out this record?" We didn't know how we were going to get the money. So we called out west and talked to Joe Carducci at SST. And he asked what's going on with the band and we told him that we wanted to put out an album. He said that we could put it out, but that we would have to wait until they had the money. We didn't know what to do, because we wanted to put it out as soon as possible. Then Mike Watt from New Alliance heard that we were talking to SST and he said that he could put out the album. New Alliance had the money right now. Mike said that he'd heard the band, liked us, and just said, "Let's DO IT." C.R.: Is it all live? Greg: Yeah, all live. C.R.: Do you have any favorite tracks? Bob: Side two is the stronger side. You'll notice that the sound quality gets stronger as you get farther along in the album. Since there was no stopping between songs, it was sort of a hit or
