HASHTAGS & THRASHTAGS (Vol. 6, No. 328)

Husker Du, Ramones, Big Black, Tutu & the Pirates, U.S. Maple, Hamid Drake, Elizabeth Coudoux, Matchess, Red Bull Round Robin at Thalia Hall (Chicago, August 30th, 2018), the Headhunters, Andy Mackay

“What got you guys together?” “Records.” L-R: Greg Norton and Grant Hart of Husker Du.

Gotta love PBS, in this case Minnesota Public Television, who have produced Minnesota Hardcore, a very well-done “fast-paced, musical docu-series that examines the punk scene in the Twin Cities from 1980 to 1985.” Apparently you can watch a full-length edit of the whole thing with the PBS app on a smart TV, or one episode at a time on the Minnesota Public Television web page, but for now, I just wanted to mention a very brief excerpt from Episode 2: The Fastest Band in the World, this exchange from right after the 1:20 mark, from a 1980s interview with Greg Norton and Grant Hart of Husker Du:

INTERVIEWER: What got you guys together?

NORTON: What got us together?

INTERVIEWER: Yeah, what got you guys together?

NORTON: Records.

INTERVIEWER: Records got you together.

HART: Yeah.

While saying this, Norton and Hart are in fact sitting in front of hundreds of vinyl records, which are on a shelf on the wall b…