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Dead set on destruction
Oct. 13th, 2003 08:20 am(I know that my market research showed that this is the most unpopular aspect of my LJ. But I just can’t help myself.)
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walktheplank’s musical advice again. A few weeks ago, I saw Grant Hart (ex-Husker Du) at The Eagle and it was amazing. It was just Grant and a guitar but I swear some of those Husker songs sounded even better than they did back in the day. I had never realized how well-written those songs actually were.
Imagine most ‘80s punk played acoustically and without a drummer.
This was nothing like that.
I was prepared to heckle, yelling out for "In a Free Land" etc., especially when the cover was an extra buck because "Hey, it’s Grant Hart",* but he won me over right away. Me and the other 20 people who stayed to see him. Most of us were singing along and I swear I was tearing up during "Don’t want to know if you are lonely". Grant also did a bunch of Johnny Cash covers as a little tribute.
I don’t want to get into one of those who’s-your-favorite-Beatle things, but as he was playing, I realized that he wrote most of my favorite Husker Du songs. Gender ambiguous songs, sad, smart, and angry, part of the soundtrack of my teen-age years.** The only song I could have done without is "Diane" because that whole in-the-mind-of-a-serial-killer thing is so ‘80s-tired.
Weirdly, most of the crowd seemed to be there for Waycross, a band I really want to like and can’t. Caroleen, the singer, was in the Bedlam Rovers who I will still defend as one of the most overlooked bands of the ‘90s. Waycross plays mid-tempo can’t-decide-if-it’s-country-or-rock songs that always fool me. When they start playing, I always think, "This is pretty good". Then after the fourth or fifth song that sounds pretty much the same, I go buy another beer and hang out outside.
Of course, it could have just been that, like always, the Eagle shows are absurdly late-running for Thursday nights. Grant Hart fans aren’t getting any younger.
*Just goes to show that those leather bar boys have a big, hidden, sappy side.
**If anyone wants to burn me some Huskers that’d be great. My tapes are dying and I only have "Metal Circus"/"in a Free Land" on CD. I have "Zen Arcade" on vinyl but, you know. Not "Wharehouse: Songs and Stories" though. That album still sucks.
I will never doubt
walktheplank’s musical advice again. A few weeks ago, I saw Grant Hart (ex-Husker Du) at The Eagle and it was amazing. It was just Grant and a guitar but I swear some of those Husker songs sounded even better than they did back in the day. I had never realized how well-written those songs actually were. Imagine most ‘80s punk played acoustically and without a drummer.
This was nothing like that.
I was prepared to heckle, yelling out for "In a Free Land" etc., especially when the cover was an extra buck because "Hey, it’s Grant Hart",* but he won me over right away. Me and the other 20 people who stayed to see him. Most of us were singing along and I swear I was tearing up during "Don’t want to know if you are lonely". Grant also did a bunch of Johnny Cash covers as a little tribute.
I don’t want to get into one of those who’s-your-favorite-Beatle things, but as he was playing, I realized that he wrote most of my favorite Husker Du songs. Gender ambiguous songs, sad, smart, and angry, part of the soundtrack of my teen-age years.** The only song I could have done without is "Diane" because that whole in-the-mind-of-a-serial-killer thing is so ‘80s-tired.
Weirdly, most of the crowd seemed to be there for Waycross, a band I really want to like and can’t. Caroleen, the singer, was in the Bedlam Rovers who I will still defend as one of the most overlooked bands of the ‘90s. Waycross plays mid-tempo can’t-decide-if-it’s-country-or-rock songs that always fool me. When they start playing, I always think, "This is pretty good". Then after the fourth or fifth song that sounds pretty much the same, I go buy another beer and hang out outside.
Of course, it could have just been that, like always, the Eagle shows are absurdly late-running for Thursday nights. Grant Hart fans aren’t getting any younger.
*Just goes to show that those leather bar boys have a big, hidden, sappy side.
**If anyone wants to burn me some Huskers that’d be great. My tapes are dying and I only have "Metal Circus"/"in a Free Land" on CD. I have "Zen Arcade" on vinyl but, you know. Not "Wharehouse: Songs and Stories" though. That album still sucks.
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