Husker Du on the Joan Rivers Show, 1987:

RandomKoolzip

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Thu Mar-09-06 12:40 PM
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Husker Du on the Joan Rivers Show, 1987:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ53M7zj9_M&search=husker%20du

Check out the interview with the band after they play "Could You Be the One?" (Not "YOU Could Be the One," as Joan claims.) This was a few months before they broke up under very acrimonious circumstances, and you can definitely sense some tension: an underground band hadn't reached that level of visibility before, and the friction created by the awkward questions the solidly-mainstream Joan Rivers poses is palpable.

Enjoy.

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HughBeaumont

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Thu Mar-09-06 12:44 PM
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1. I will watch this when I get home, and thank you in advance.

I saw this at the tail end of it on a repeat of one of her shows. It's like one of those TV moments you remember for a while . . . like Fear or Captain Beefheart playing on SNL . . . or like Madness or Motorhead on The Young Ones . . . or like seeing "Don't Want to Know if You are Lonely" and having your musical world changed forever.

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Thu Mar-09-06 12:54 PM
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2. For me it was seeing the video for this same song...

On 120 Minutes in early 1988. I taped it and watched it over and over and over again. I was a year too late....damn....

I still think it may be Husker Du's best song.

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Thu Mar-09-06 12:55 PM
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3. I've always enjoyed the post-HD Bob Mould material myself.

You know, 'Black Sheets of Rain' and all that.

Of course, that was before I discovered Duranguense music. ;)

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RandomKoolzip

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Thu Mar-09-06 01:04 PM
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5. "Duranguense?"

You'll have to unpack that one for me. Ques es, amigo?

Workbook and Black Sheets of Rain were good albums, but Sugar was AWFUL. I still don't undeerstand what Bob was thinking when he formed that group.

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XNASA

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Thu Mar-09-06 01:47 PM
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8. Hola amigo. Es Duran Duran Mexicana.

Seriously. It's Mexican music from Durango that has strong ties to Chicago where it's very popular.

Uptempo, lot's of percussion, mainly brass and woodwinds. And as we just got back from Jalisco ayer, it's still fresh in my mind.

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Thu Mar-09-06 12:57 PM
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4. There's a lot of good shit on there

Check out the Radio Birdman stuff from 1977 or so -- amazing.

I'll have to check out the Husker Du when I'm at a computer w/speakers (I'm at work).

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RandomKoolzip

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Thu Mar-09-06 01:06 PM
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6. I'm addicted to that site.

Just Today I've checked out videos by Roky Erickson, Black Flag, Genesis, Devandra Barnhart, The Fall, Trouble Funk, Eddie and the Hot Rods, The monks, Charles Manson, King Crimson, etc....I've barely scratched the surface!

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Thu Mar-09-06 01:10 PM
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7. Add to that...

There's some really cool old Bo Diddley on there, Stooges, Pogues, Guns'N'Roses (live at the Ritz in 88 or 89), The Who...I spent 3 or 4 hours on there last weekend and had to call it quits. I would have blown the whole day if not.

Charles Manson? I'm gonna have to check that out!

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Thu Mar-09-06 01:50 PM
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9. Thanks Random!

I had never seen that before.

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RandomKoolzip

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Fri Mar-10-06 12:45 AM
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11. It's awesome.

There's a bunch of Husker vids on that site.

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Dolomite

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Thu Mar-09-06 01:53 PM
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10. Got a bootleg DVD off of eBay of their "Live from London" UK TV show

appearance - right in between New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig. It still kicks major ass.

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RandomKoolzip

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Fri Mar-10-06 12:46 AM
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12. Oh yeah...I saw those.

"I apologize" is SWEET.

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