HUSKER DU - FIND AND REWIND
AN INTRODUCTION
Formed in Minneapolis in 1979 when solitary teenage BEATLES fanatic BOB MOULD (guitar/vocals) met fellow enthusiast and drummer GRANT HART at thelocal record shop where Hart worked, HUSKER DU were completed with the addition of bassist GREG NORTON and a name taken from a Swedish board game.
Galvanised by the UK punk explosion,HUSKER DU emerged on record in 1981 as one of the prime movers on th burgeoning US "Hardcore" underground circuit: a midwestern counterpart to the startling West Coast punk muscle displayed by the likes of BLACK FLAG, DEAD KENNEDYS, X, THE MINUTEMEN etc.
However, isolated from obvious press scenes in their Minnesota homebase (fast becoming notorious more for PRINCE's audacious Paisley Park complex) HUSKER DU were very much a product of a radically different environment than their Californian peers, despite signing to BLACK FLAG guitarist Greg Ginn's label SST, and over a furiously reative five-year span (roughly 1982-87), established themselves as quite possibly the most consistently excellent and important US underground troupe in the years leading up to the PIXIES' breakthrough in 1987.
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Sadly,HUSKER DU's demise in early 1988 was both tawdry and shrouded in sorrow as we'll see later, but first let's enjoy the vinyl trip with some of America's finest hardcore heroes first..
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