Husker Du Minneapolis, MN First Avenue 7 September 1987 [contains tracks from two shows on that date] PLUS a rare 1980 bonus track [total running time ] [cassette one / side A (44:44)] - almost certainly from the late 21+ show on this date 1-001 New Day Rising (2:34) 1-002 The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill (2:55) 1-003 Standing In The Rain (3:26) 1-004 Back From Somewhere (2:19) 1-005 Target (1:56) 1-006 Wheels (2:20) 1-007 From The Gut (1:34) 1-008 Masochism World (2:14) 1-009 Beyond The Threshold (3:31) 1-010 Green Eyes (2:38) [edit/patch at end] 1-011 Divide And Conquer (2:43) [edit/patch at end] 1-012 She Floated Away (3:26) 1-013 Find Me (4:29) 1-014 Now She's A Woman (and now he is a man) (3:02) [edit/patch at end] 1-015 Everytime (2:36) [edit/patch at end] 1-016 Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (2:53) [fade-out applied at end] [cassette one / side B (43:35)] - more than likely from the late show 2-001 Chartered Trips (4:01) 2-002 Terms Of Psychic Warfare (1:53) 2-003 What's Going On (3:15) 2-004 Sorry Somehow (4:04) 2-005 Eiffel Tower High (2:23) 2-006 You Can Live At Home (6:08) [edit/patch at end] 2-007 Chinese Rocks (2:06) 2-008 Never Talking To You Again (1:46) 2-009 Makes No Sense At All (2:37) [edit/patch at end] 2-010 Diane (4:11) 2-011 Flip Your Wig (2:35) [edit/patch at end] 2-012 Somewhere (2:43) 2-013 In A Free Land (3:14) 2-014 When Pink Turns To Blue [cassette two / side A (19:28)] - most likely from the early all-ages show on the same date 3-001 Somewhere (2:43) 3-002 What's Going On (3:17) 3-003 Celebrated Summer (4:16) 3-004 Keep Hanging On (4:45) encore: 3-005 Every Everything (1:48) 3-006 Everytime (2:37) (fast fade at end) There are two takes of a few of these tracks, which seem to be from different sets on the same day. There was a 4 pm all-age show and a 8 pm 21+ show on that date, according to a flyer on the thirdave site; this looks like a composite of both shows. Apparently, I edited down a bunch of tracks from one or both of the shows, taking out dead space in between tracks to fit as much music as possible on one 90-minute cassette. The last six tracks were used as filler on another tape, and they seem to be a complete, unedited segment, except for a really quick fade out at the end of "Everytime", in order to make it fit neatly on that cassette. My best guess is that those last six tracks are from the end of the early all-ages set, and that everything prior to that is from the late 21+ set. Since I hadn't bothered to label the second tape in anyway, other than the date, I'm going to assume that I liked that segment and wanted to keep it intact, but that anything else from the early set was probably played at the later show, so I apparently decided to (ahem) not keep them (!). If that's what I did, it was kind of dumb, hearing all this stuff back again after twenty years; the late set certainly sounds better to my ears (technically speaking), but there is a definite spark to those last six tracks, and if that's how they sounded at the end of the set, it might have been a bad choice, not keeping what preceded those last tracks. Oh well, for better or not, here's what I've got from that day, and how anyone wants to put it together for their own listening is up to the listener at this point. BONUS TRACK: Husker Du with Dave Foley (guitar) Minneapolis, MN Seventh Street Entry 1980 (exact date unknown) 4-001 It's Not Fair (10:24) The "bonus track" here is the last track from from a show that I don't have an exact date for, but trust me, if this were released somewhere, all of us would already know about it. I came in quite late for this show, but I apparently had some kind of a deck with me, so I think I was probably taping another band at another venue, and then ducked into the Entry to catch whatever was left of the Husker Du set. They were wrapping things up, and for the last number, invited local beatnik guitar hero Dave Foley to plug in for a sonic overload jam on "It's Not Fair". Minneapolis music-philes will remember Dave from the band Things That Fall Down, in which he added his trademark soundscapes of rhinoceros mating calls and alien space ships to Contortion-ist style funk jams. I think there was an unspoken rule, that if Dave hadn't stepped on stage with your band, you hadn't made it yet. (Okay, I made that up, but you get the idea.) I have very good reason to believe a recording exists of this entire set, although it seemed to me that mics were being pulled down and packed away during this last track. Maybe I'll lilve long enough to find out if there's a better recording of this, but I'm not holding my breath. Either this is just a tease, or an unusual and obscure artifact, but that's not for me to say. this lineage applies to all tracks herein: original master cassette > 1st-gen. copy cassette > Azimuth-optimized analog/digital transfer to hard drive (CDWav editor) > split into tracks (CDWav editor) > SoundForge processes applied: DC offset; channel level adjustment; Traders Little Helper processes: SBE check (OK); .flac conversion (level 8) ********************************************************************************************************************** A KIND OF DISCLAIMER AGAINST POTENTIAL BOOTLEGGERS... I had taken a bit of a break from posting anything, due to getting a lot of flak about my no-artwork "policy". I'm willing to give it another try, and see how it goes. If people are interested in hearing what I dig out of the archives, then please do not post artwork on the torrents I post, and please don't try to open a big debate about it in the comments section. Either of those things will be the quickest way to convince me that I'm wasting my time sharing this stuff with people. Do what you want in your own space, but please respect my one simple request on the torrents I post, okay? It is my express interest to provide the best quality archival material I have available, but the notion of people creating "artwork" for these recordings has little to do with the work I do as an archivist. It also easily enables the ready packaging of archival recordings as illegitimate bootlegs, which I do not support. I am not in the business of manufacturing a "product", but simply contributing to a particular type of cultural history. If people are going to make artwork for my recordings, I don't want to see it attached to this or any of my torrents, or that will seriously be the end of me putting up anything else from my archives. If this is going to be an issue for anyone, I'm done sharing my recordings, period. I'm not interested in anyone's opinions on the subject, and this is not a matter that's up for discussion. If you disagree with my opinion, why waste your time or anyone else's posting about it? ********************************************************************************************************************** Now, back to the fun stuff - just enjoy the music, okay?