[troutman]

Swervedriver mourns the passing of Grant Hart. So many of his Hüsker Dü songs formed the basis of what we were about - Green Eyes, Pink Turns to Blue, Turn On The News, The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill, Flexible Flyer, Don't Wanna Know If You Are Lonely, Keep Hanging On.. the list just goes on and on. Our song Planes Over The Skyline is basically a re-write of Dead Set On Destruction (with a bit of scouse inspiration thrown in for good measure). Grant and Bob both (separately) came to the first Swervedriver shows in the US and we've got to hang out every now and then over the years which has been the greatest thing ever, as you can imagine. Thanks Grant. - Swervedriver

Grant Hart was such a great complex and mercurial character - sort of the Chet Baker of indie rock. I loved and studied his songs - Husker Du are such an obvious inspiration to the BT from the start, in our DNA. In 1988 Grant chose our debut album in NME as one his 'best albums of the year' - I can't recall a moment in our career that made me feel more excited and proud. It gave us some serious street cred too - along with J Mascis - it's hard to imagine we would have ever left our little rehearsal space in the basement in Northampton MA. The last time I saw Grant was playing was at a small theater in Davis Square last year. Grant let each member of the audience request a song - solo or Husker Du - and he sang each one. Knocked us out. - Buffalo Tom

The next nine years of my life was spent side-by-side with Grant. We made amazing music together. We (almost) always agreed on how to present our collective work to the world. When we fought about the details, it was because we both cared. The band was our life. It was an amazing decade.Grant Hart was a gifted visual artist, a wonderful story teller, and a frighteningly talented musician. Everyone touched by his spirit will always remember. Godspeed, Grant. I miss you. Be with the angels. - Bob Mould

“What Nirvana did was nothing new –- Husker Du did it before us,” Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic once said. Foo Fighters founder and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl put it more succinctly: “No Husker Du, no Foo Fighters.” Green Day covered one of Husker Du’s Hart-written songs, “Don’t Want to Know if you are Lonely,” and Billie Joe Armstrong once said, “I wanted to be Husker Du when I started Green Day.”
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