husker_du1987-12-11.flac16

Husker Du
1987-12-11
Venue: Audience > Unknown > Sony TC-WE435 > Audacity > Peak Pro XT (Indexed) > Flac
Location: Unknown

01 Flip Your Wig
02 Every Everything
03 Makes No Sense at All
04 From the Gut
05 Target
06 Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill
07 I Apologize (splice)
08 Back From Somewhere
09 Ice Cold Ice
10 Everytime
11 Friend, You've Got To Fall
12 She Floated Away
13 Hardly Getting Over It
14 Flexible Flyer (cuts off)

Source: Unknown

A friend requested this one, the last ever Husker Du show in a very average recording but a slice of history none the less.  A small splice during "I Apologize" and a minor (only a few seconds) of tape warble at the start of "Every Everything".
Hart was fully in the grips of heroin addiction at this point and the show was played under less than idea circumstances.
A short hurried set and 8 years of sonic noise comes to an end.
Mould cancelled the next show in Boise and a benefit show at the Beacon Theater for an Aids charity Hart had helped organize.
Creative and personal tensions between Mould and Hart had become irresolvable by the release of Warehouse, and they intensified when Mould began overseeing most of the band's managerial duties following the suicide of manager David Savoy on the eve of the tour in support of the album. In September 2006, Hart told Britain's Q magazine, "I take full responsibility for [David's] suicide. It was a direct result of the pressure of working for Bob and me, because he was being forced into a two-faced situation." Mould also calls the suicide "the beginning of the end". To make matters worse, drug problems (mainly Hart's heroin use) were hurting the band, while Mould was trying to overcome his own alcoholism and amphetamine use. By January 1988 they were no longer able to work together. Recollections differ as to exactly how the group disbanded. Mould and Hart both claim that they quit. Some versions say that Hart was ejected from the band, which promptly collapsed.  Some say Hart quit the band after the canceling of the Beacon show and in January 1988 an official letter went out from Mould saying he was done, Husker Du was no more.
"When we had our little troubles-when I had my big trouble in Columbia, Missouri, when a bottle of methadone disappeared, I played a show under less than perfect circumstances. It was excruciating.  I have been in the position where other people have done the same sort of thing and nothing is served by authoritative "compassion." If we would have continued on, things would have been cool.  Because they had been cool up until that time.  But a one-time incident, and mind you, while I was trying my damnedest to put it behind me..."  Grant Hart
Samples attached...
Enjoy!
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