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Default Grant Hart (Husker Du) RIP age 56

Another musical hero has passed. This hurts.

https://blog.thecurrent.org/2017/09/...es-away-at-56/

He co-founded, wrote songs for, and drummed in the influential St. Paul trio Hüsker Dü, inspiring legions of bands with his raw and poetic charm. He went on to form the alternative rock band Nova Mob, and would write and record several criminally under-appreciated and beautiful solo albums. And he was held in the softest parts of so many hearts in the punk community, beloved for his resilience, his sharp wit, his endless intellectual curiosity, and his kind, crooked smile.

https://blog.thecurrent.org/2017/07/...d-ladder-show/
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More tributes:
https://blog.thecurrent.org/2017/09/...to-grant-hart/
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agree this one does hurt

IMO Husker Du had a few year run of productivity that was hard to match

Both the Posies (Grant Hart) and Canada's own Furnaceface (Ode to Grant Hart) penned power pop tribute tunes that I may crank tonight on the way home in addition to my Husker Du and novamob playlists
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The Current will be honoring Grant today at 5:00 Central U.S. time - I believe most of you can stream the station live at http://www.thecurrent.org/listen

Grant Hart’s 10 greatest Hüsker Dü songs

http://www.citypages.com/music/grant...ongs/444448433
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Old 09-14-2017, 10:52 AM   #5
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A Tale Of Twin Cities: Hüsker Dü, The Replacements And The Rise And Fall Of The ’80s Minneapolis Scene

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2005/0...eapolis-scene/
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Unbelievably sad for me personally as Grant was one of my all-time heroes. Nice tribute to Grant on Bob's Facebook page this morning.

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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.
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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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Tributes are pouring in. Too busy at work today to even read a fraction of them but a friend said I should read this one -- it is by Ken Shipley, one of the founders of Numero Group who is putting out the Husker Du reissue. It put a tear in my eye.

http://www.smobserved.com/story/2017...-him/3097.html
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“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.”

Haha , ironically I was in a garage/cover band in the early 90s. we played a few green day (Dookie) songs as well as several Husker du songs (including don't want to know if you are lonely). we rarely ventured out of the basement to play gigs, but occasionally we did. Our Green Day songs went over well, I wanted to play the Husker Du songs but the band was concerned the audience wouldn't care for them- so I came up with a compromise- I introduced them as Green Day songs and we played them. can't tell if anyone in the audience was the wiser
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Wow that's really too bad.. great band and legacy
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I had never heard of these guys until today. They have some catchy tunes.
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Oh crap, this is awful news. Husker Du were giants. RIP
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Apparently the Fenway Park organist is a Husker Du fan, and paid tribute to Grant during tonight's game.

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Yeah I’ve heard Josh on the Best Show a few times. He’s always playing cool music on the organ during games.
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Billboard talks to Tommy Stinson about Grant:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...hart-remembers


Jon Wurster article in Rolling Stone on Grant:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...ricane-w503420
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Grant Hart Tribute Show on BBC 6.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095cmz8
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Husker Du's heydey was slightly before my time, so I got into them late, sometime around the mid-90s. I actually discovered Sugar first and then worked backwards diving into Bob Mould's back catalogue with his solo material, the Huskers, and then Grant Hart's first solo album. Very sad to hear about Hart's passing.
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Message from Brigid McGough Hart

http://www.citypages.com/music/remem...2017/445840373

Mythology doesn’t serve those it mythologizes, it serves the believers. And that’s particularly true in the case of Hart—genius, eccentric, talented, unpredictable, charming, obsessive, sometimes infuriating, always unfiltered. You can’t use mythology to explain a man who utterly refused to be mythic.
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Great tribute to Grant in City Pages. City Pages is the alternative weekly newspaper based in Grant's hometown of Minneapolis/St. Paul.

http://citypages.com/music/rememberi...2017/445840373


Some more bits that did not make it into the main article:

http://citypages.com/music/lighting-...ries/445908383
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