So, we started to hustle our own gigs, and we took a loan out from a bank to
start our own label. As far as the management thing, basically I think
managers are people who've had their license revoked selling insurance or
something. We really don't want someone telling us what to do. We don't
care about having an image. The music is strong enough that we don't need it.
There's nothing wrong with it. It's just when it comes down to the fact that
we want to play music for people, not scare them or do anything outrageous.
We do it because we enjoy it, and if all of a sudden people decide to hate us,
that's not going to change anything. I hate to make it sound so simple. I
hope I'm not disillusioning anybody that might have a band, or any aspiring
rock stars or anything. There's no glamour involved. It's basically, get
up there and tell people stories and lots of hard work. Alot of bands like to
create the illusion of being bigger than life or being something that they
are not. I think it's a lot harder to go out there and be yourself. You get
judged by the way you sing and the way you play. I like it that way."
Flip Your Wig is the latest Husker Du record. A natural progression from
their others, where the band wrote, produced and mixed the album. This album
is showing more sides of them, bringing them out of the thrash music genre
even more.
"I'm getting real tired, we were doing what is now known as thrash a long time
ago. Then all of a sudden, there were a million bands and they were all doing
the same thing and there was no reason for it anymore. It got real skin head,
then real escape, then it got real surf, all these passions, all these
justifications. It's like, you couldn't just say, I like playing fast, that
wasn't enough. You had to be a homosexual, vegetarian, skin head that was a
card carrying communist. All these criteria for being in a band that made 20
bucks a week."
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