To say that HUSKER DU have evol-
ved from their first album 'Land
Speed Record' is a non-statement.
It also stands to reason that a band
that has been around for so long is
subject to change, and in HUSKER DU
the change is obvious, Although we
find it strange that the Huskers have
never played Wpg until this recent
show we also admire the band for their
non-conformist attitudes. This is a
fanzine and typically we interview
the bands we enjoy the most. In the
case of the Huskers, we watched and
listened with open minds and although
we felt the Huskers were competent
musicians with a fresh, honest ap-
proach, we honestly weren't impressed.
Call us hypocrites, here's what happ-
ened.
HUSKER DU are:
Bob Mould: Guitar, Vocals
Greg Norton: Bass, Vocals
Grant Hart: Drums, Vocals
WHAT'S MINNEAPOLIS LIKE THESE DAYS?
B - The Upper Deck closed; that was
a place where a lot of bands played
for a lot of years. It closed in
October.
I HEARD IT WAS A RIOT
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plugged the band; they started boun- cing.... The papers said it was an all-out riot. B - It was a tax writeoff. But the- re's still the 7th Street Entry, Duffy's. WHAT HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN DOING? B - We were out on the West Coast in October and we went out East in Dec- ember. We haven't been traveling that much compared to what we used to do. We used to tour constantly. It gets tiring after a while. We're gonna take a break for a while, about four or five months. GONNA RECORD ANY BANDS ON YOUR LABEL? B - Yeah, we got two singles coming out this week on Reflex, OTTO'S CHEM- ICAL LOUNGE and FINAL CONFLICT, and we're gonna start work next week on Ground Zero's album, so that should be out in about four or five months. ARE YOU STILL ON YOUR OWN LABEL? B - No, we're on SST Records. IS YOUR LABEL JUST SOMETHING YOU DO PUTTING OUT MINNEAPOLIS BANDS? B - We don't have the money to put out our own records, silly as it sounds, since we're running a record label. But what happens is you have put all this money up front for 5000 records, jackets, whatever; that costs a lot of money. We just don't have |
that kind of money to throw around. It's easier to work with smaller bands and keep it sustaining itself, whereas SST has the machinery, the extended credit, stuff like that, where they don't have to play it all at once. Being a smaller label, we can't do that. ARE ANY OF YOUR RECORDS RELEASED IN EUROPE? B - The new one's out in Europe. So is Land Speed Record. HOW WELL DO YOU THINK YOU'D GO OVER IF YOU PLAYED THERE? B - I don't know, I guess we'd probably go over all right...just do what we're gonna do. You know we're not gonna change our clothes or nothing, or put shit in our hair or something. BLACK FLAG got a real negative response, it seemed like. They're doing a lot better there now because the bands that were criticizing them have all pretty much fallen out of favor now, like the EXPLOITED. It's just nice to have the records out over there; it's exposure. We'd like to go over there; we were sup- posed to go over there two times before. We're supposed to go over |