Husker Du @ Variety Arts Center 1987-04-24
HUSKER DU
LOS ANGELES, CA @ VARIETY ARTS CENTER
1987-04-24
Cassette Master -> Untracked Aiff File -> Soundforge -> FLAC
(no setlist)
poor sound, incomplete, I think I have seen other sources out there.
Band Of The Month: OASIS **FINAL 2024-10-10 with Round 10**
Seems like the tour excitement is catching on and a few fans have found this page. I don't have anything specifically rare but might as well put it all up. Don't really wanna clear out any of the Google drives so it has to be Pixeldrain. There is a 5GB daily download limit but I probably only have a few days worth. This collection is by no means comprehensive. Share widely if you wish. To be honest going forward - I don't like posting anything I haven't listened to. I lost track and can't really dedicate my life to Oasis right now so it's up to you to point out any flaws, most importantly CD skips from bad rips or too much diginoise - 2 things that make me trash a recording. Anyone have a complete Manchester Dec 1994? The one on Dime is heavily redacted. Can any of the experts recommend anything particularly exciting? Maybe I will make this a monthly thing with a different band. Or not. Like I said, just not feeling it anymore. RIP Douglas Parenteau aka OasisDou...
I'll always take a new source, thank you very much!
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ReplyDeletePOP REVIEW : SUPER-DUPER HUSKER DU
ReplyDeleteBY STEVE HOCHMAN
APRIL 27, 1987 12 AM PT
More pure rock power than 30 heavy-metal concerts . . . more indelible hooks than a barrel full of Monkees . . . able to leap across musical genres in a single bound.
If Husker Du had showed a Clark Kent side Friday at the Variety Arts Center, there would have been no doubt about its identity as Superband. There was, however, nothing mild mannered in this Minneapolis rock trio’s thrilling 80-minute, 25-song set.
In one sequence midway through the show, the band skipped from one song that sounded like some lost Black Sabbath classic to another tune that could have been an Iggy Pop chestnut and then on to a number with a vaguely psychedelic, melodic pop feel.
Yet the Husker dudes never sounded like stylistic dabblers--as they make sure each selection got their familiar wind tunnel treatment. Though the words were often obscured, the shifting blend of joy and menace carried in the singing/howling of drummer Grant Hart and guitarist Bob Mould came through loud and clear.
The amazing thing is that, for all its variety, this show barely scratched the surface of the band’s recorded work, while still leaving the feeling that Husker Du has not even approached its peak.
Opening band Christmas, a Boston-based trio, made an ideal lead-in to the headliner with an approach that at times suggested the eclectic Minutemen, only funnier: One song was jokingly introduced by guitarist-singer Micheal Cudahy as being titled “The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Put Rubber Cement All Over My Face and Stick My Head in a Bucket of Dead Bees.” Worth watching.HUSKER DU - 1987-04-24 VARIETY ARTS CENTER, LOS ANGELES, CA
Show note:
Only Side A was taped.
Photos:
http://www.thirdav.com/hd_discog/stills/s19870424.html
1 These Important Years
2 Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope
3 Standing in the Rain
4 Back From Somewhere
5 Ice Cold Ice
6 You're a Soldier
7 Could You Be the One?
8 Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill
9 Everytime
10 Chartered Trips
11 Terms of Psychic Warfare
12 Bed of Nails
13 Tell You Why Tomorrow
14 What's Going On?
[rest is missing]
No Reservations
Flexible Flyer
Turn It Around
She's a Woman (and Now He Is a Man)
Up in the Air
You Can Live at Home
Hardly Getting Over It
Keep Hanging On
Never Talking to You Again
Love Is All Around [Sonny Curtis]
Openers:
Cassette Master -> Untracked Aiff File -> Soundforge -> FLAC
POP REVIEW : SUPER-DUPER HUSKER DU
BY STEVE HOCHMAN
APRIL 27, 1987 12 AM PT
More pure rock power than 30 heavy-metal concerts . . . more indelible hooks than a barrel full of Monkees . . . able to leap across musical genres in a single bound.
If Husker Du had showed a Clark Kent side Friday at the Variety Arts Center, there would have been no doubt about its identity as Superband. There was, however, nothing mild mannered in this Minneapolis rock trio’s thrilling 80-minute, 25-song set.
In one sequence midway through the show, the band skipped from one song that sounded like some lost Black Sabbath classic to another tune that could have been an Iggy Pop chestnut and then on to a number with a vaguely psychedelic, melodic pop feel.
Yet the Husker dudes never sounded like stylistic dabblers--as they make sure each selection got their familiar wind tunnel treatment. Though the words were often obscured, the shifting blend of joy and menace carried in the singing/howling of drummer Grant Hart and guitarist Bob Mould came through loud and clear.
The amazing thing is that, for all its variety, this show barely scratched the surface of the band’s recorded work, while still leaving the feeling that Husker Du has not even approached its peak.
Opening band Christmas, a Boston-based trio, made an ideal lead-in to the headliner with an approach that at times suggested the eclectic Minutemen, only funnier: One song was jokingly introduced by guitarist-singer Micheal Cudahy as being titled “The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Put Rubber Cement All Over My Face and Stick My Head in a Bucket of Dead Bees.” Worth watching.