A couple of nights ago (an hour before the deadline), I pledged money to help fund another Kickstarter project. The film, Every Everything, The Music, Life & Times of Grant Hart has already been filmed and edited and is in the last stages of sound mixing before it's film festival premiere this summer. It looks like a very interesting film about an interesting (and troubled) life led by the former Husker Du drummer. I first heard about this project soon after director, Gorman Bechard released a previous project, Color Me Obsessed (film about the The Replacements) through Kickstarter (that I also donated to) and since Husker Du was my number 2 fav Minneapolis band of the 80's I was curious about this project. I've always been more of a "Grant" guy and preferred Hart's song's to Bob Mould's during their time with Husker Du. I have seen Grant perform solo (in the 2000's) and with his band Nova Mob (in the 90's) and though he's not the best performer, he is passionate about his music and after watching the mini-trailer about the film, I had to be involved or at least have a copy of the film before it becomes commercially available. It's now too late to pledge to the project, but keep your eyes open for it this summer at a film festival near you or on dvd sometime in the near future.
I'm presenting a fantastic solo show that Grant did in 2001 in Albany, NY. The setlist is killer with a nice mixture of Husker Du, Nova Mob and solo songs. I acquired this show through a trade over ten years ago and I also have a recording of the show I went to when he was in town in the mid-2000's. I posted the Valentines concert because the sound is excellent and superior to my recording. The show I went to he had lots of issues with the sound and it was disgraceful that only a handful of fans attended the show at the West End Cultural Centre...but, this one's a keeper!
Enjoy!
GRANT HART
Valentine’s,
Albany, NY,
March 22, 2001
01 - flexible flyer (cut)
02 - green eyes
03 - sorry somehow
04 - you don't have to tell me
05 - evergreen memorial drive
06 -little miss information
07 - pink turns to blue
08 - admiral of the sea
09 - back from somewhere
10 - she floated away
11 - terms of psychic warfare
12 - don't want to know if you're lonely
13 - books about ufo's
14 - girl who lives on heaven hill
15 - it's not funny anymore
16 - never talking to you again
17 -standing by the sea
18 - turn on the news
19 - letter from ann marie
20 - where you gonna land..
21 - over my head
22 -you're the victim
23 - last days of pompei
24 -run run run to the center pompidou
25 - charity, chastity, prudence and hope
26 - she's a woman and now he is a man
27- outro
GRANT HART- 2001-03-22, Valentines, Albany, NY FLAC. rar
thank you ! missing song-titles in playlist are 06.little miss information 17.standing by the sea 22.you're the victim 24.run run run to the centre pompidou
ReplyDeletenice to see this up here - i was the taper.
ReplyDelete(for those into lineage: AT822 > D7 > datM > HHB830 > cdrM > ... hand-held @ 12 ft between grant and stack on my left)
thanks for the kind words on the recording.
grant was nice enough to play 'heaven hill' twice as i had missed it the first time!
this was the first of 3 albany shows i caught from 2000-2009, but the last that drew a very large crowd. i got to see grant one last time opening for mike watt and meat puppets at brooklyn bowl may 10 2017. he sounded quite good and was in good humor but didn't look well. i was nonetheless very surprised (and of course saddened) when i heard he had passed away so soon thereafter.
rip grant hart.
all the best,
mikeL