Grant Hart - Two MPLS shows, CD Release

I wrote last month about former Husker Du member Grant Hart, spotlighting his upcoming CD Hot Wax.

Hart played the famed Uptown Bar in Minneapolis last weekend and is throwing his CD release party this weekend at First Avenue. (one of those 'wish I could be there' gigs!)

Hart spoke to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune a week or so ago and gave good quote.

Hart said he doesn't measure success in numbers. "[Bob Mould] has a business acumen that I don't bother exercising because it's not a motivation to me," he said. "Putting things in that focus is pollutive. We're talking about something that is spiritual sustenance to me."

"A long time ago, I started looking at my permanent record -- the history of me after I'm gone," he said. "Even to speak of it reeks of egotism run wild. But I think when all is said and done, the work that I produced in this lifetime will more than repay the world for any inconvenience I've caused it."

This is how Grant Hart looks in 2009, rockin' his old Husker Du fave "Books About UFOs"


This is how he drummed in 1985 on the fastest coolest concert opener ever.