When I was 18, a friend asked me to tape their copy of an APP album so she could listen on cassette. I did it and added a Dickies track. The end of a beautiful friendship …
Grant Hart and Bob Mould brought out the best in eachother. Husker Du in ‘86 is one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to. Enjoyed seeing Bib solo recently in Cardiff.
The first three? Then Loaded has some of Lou’s best pop writing (Sweet Jane a classic and Rock n Roll superb), Live 69 is fantastic, VU is great fun and reminds me so much of ‘84 when it was released.
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Enjoyed a band called Sheelanagig at Between the Trees yesterday. At their best, the fuzzed up funk guitar and Stephan Grapelli fiddle came close to Hot 🐀s.
When I was young I would have muted the words “anything that is not punk”. I am slightly more tolerant these days. I even watched a bit of Wimbers this year (McEnroe was a teenage hero - he was punk!)
used the Fibonacci series - that’s taking math-rock a bit literally. Schoenberg gave up music when his music solidified into a twelve-tone row even defining note-length and became a tennis player.
Turtles and Can Can are perhaps evidence of Holger’s whimsy going overboard but an edit of Hallelujah!? Excuse me while I blow the dust off my scratchy copy of Tago Mago. Soul Desert and Rain were singles? I have them on Soundtracks. Marvellous.
