New Double CD of previously unreleased Husker Du pre-Landspeed/Everything Falls Apart demos coming out!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOT as hardcore style as land speed record...more pre-hardcore sound, poppier stuff, NYC punk influence

YAY!

Where's the fucking book?
The remastered(or maybe just mastered)re- released albums?

Maybe being dense, but does this have the backing of the warring Du?

uhhh wow ...drool drool ... really looking forward to this

fer ark

i'm sure it does....like i said, katzman goes way back w/huskers and is still in mpls, he's probably one of the few that's still cool with mould, hart, and norton....like his label is super duper small usually releases stuff only to indie stores in mpls and stuff, so it's gotta be the friendship thing that's getting this done....terry is a great dude, his store was the bomb (RIP)

Look forward to this baby.

Thanks for the Mpls inside info. Interesting stuff

Are the Du still warring? I thought Bob & Grant were not made up but kinda neutral towards each other these days. I always thought it was Greg Ginn preventing the albums from being reissued/remastered, maybe I'm wrong.

i don't think it's "war" but my sense is that they are not exactly buddies. norton is a chef and has a restaurant and seems to be sort of past the whole music thing....he has been playing in a band with dave king from happy apple/bad plus locally at least, they are pretty good improv math rock/jazz stuff...

http://www.myspace.com/thegangfontfeatinterloper

they are called the gang font ^^

grant has been working on some album forever...recorded partially here at the old blackberry way (where let it be was recorded) and also in toronto i guess with some guy from godspeed you black emporer

although bob and grant did perform together at the tribute show to karl mueller from soul asylum

Yeah they played "Hardly Getting Over It" and "Never Talking to You Again". Funny guys.

UPDATE?!?!

yeah, would love to hear this!

ok didn't get full answer from mpls peeps but an assortment of unrelated facts:

-- it's still a go...one disc hopefully this summer and one in october

-- have been gathering husker old photos and stuff from ppl around town

-- gonna be a lot of songs...mix of old live and demos, a TON of it never before heard songs

thanx M@tt!

what a difference a year made for for the duudes. in 1980 they were all postpunk a la:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nw0CFyTVga4

and then one year later godly hardcore:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pLI1OOku6Nw

A lot of people seem to put down Land Speed Record-era Husker Du, I love that album.

this just in:

apparently there was another set recorded the night they did land speed record and this will be on these discs

"A lot of people seem to put down Land Speed Record-era Husker Du, I love that album."

as well you should! it's amazing. the only du i need in my life are land speed record, zen arcade, and new day rising.

The post-punk Husker is really sweet. I can't wait to hear this.

xxpost:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Speed_Record_%28album%29#Miscellanea

* At the end of the album, Bob Mould says, "we'll be back for another set." Mould told Rolling Stone in 1986 that he still has the tape "somewhere." He goes on to say, "That's the other side of the band nobody ever saw back then...really, really heavy. There was a different kind of interplay between guitar, bass and drums. The vocals were a lot more sparse."

the only du i need in my life are land speed record, zen arcade, and new day rising.

Warehouse: Songs and Stories baby!

"Music should be melodic and only melodic songs are really music."

not the release I was talking about but SURPRISE NEWS FROM GRANT

http://grumpys-bar.com/downtown/images/huskerfull.jpg

Monday 7/28/08 10pm: As a memorial to his lost friend "JC" Grant Hart & co. have released a way limited HUSKER DU CD E.P. on Reflex records containing 3 live songs circa 82-83. So we're throwing a shindig i.e. record release party hosted by Grant. Come on down, as Rick Fuller has thrown together some choice tibits of archival Husker Du footage that we'll be screening as well. Obviously there'll be some of the E.P.'s there for sale, as well as a small number of the limited run fliers for the event designed and numbered by Mr. Hart himself. 10pm at Grumpy's City Club.

"JC" = John Clegg, saxophonist, who died of cancer earlier this year. The three songs on the ep feature John sitting in with the band: two versions of Grant's song "Drug Party" (which the Blue Hippos covered, but hasn't seen an official Hukser release until now) and "What's Going On." I believe there were 500 copies made.

Oh! Missed this, but was just wondering about the double CD thing. No updates, I guess.

not heard a thing

??????
Still waiting????

seriously, has/is anybody doing a book on the Huskers? There is nothing is there?

I suppose, I should try myself but as you can tell I carnt right/forme a sentense

goodammnit

Due to unforeseen obstacles, the release of our Hüsker Dü Compilation
has been indefinitely postponed. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
- Terry Katzman and everyone at Garage D’or Records

(i will give anyone who can guess what "unforeseen obstacles" are a shiny nickel)

(i will give anyone who can guess what "unforeseen obstacles" are a shiny nickel)

their CD-R burner broke

nope

:-(

Are they the sort of obstacles that could more accurately be described as 'foreseen'? I have Paypal btw

one obstacle rhymes with "knob" and one rhymes with "can't" and these obstacles don't like each other very much and tend to bicker over things ; )

the label's actually pretty legit they've done a lot of cool reissues..of some old mpls punk comps, suicide commandos, a few newer bands, etc

speaking of...all these garage d'or reissues are way worth checking out...kitten and barefoot have some old huskers stuff actually:

http://www.garagedor.com/old.html

more like previously unreleased homos, amirite?