Husker Du - 17. In A Free Land 9/5/81 7th Street Entry

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Music

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• husker
• du
• 1981
• grant
• hart
• bob
• mould
• greg
• norton
• sugar
• nova
• mob
• 80s
• minnesota
• punk
• sst
• minutemen
• black
• flag
• meat
• puppets

[cubistblues]

Considering how much speed they're on here, this is a surprisingly mid-tempo version. That guitar sound, though- there right from beginning. Amazing.

[HUSKERchout]

Definitely a lot slower...this was the first song in the second set, which at the time their second sets were usually slower. Bob's guitar has texture that many hc bands lacked with the power chord only riffing typical to hardcore. I love it!

[MUSICTRADER]

I think the headbands and the gym looking-outfits they wore kinda represents the speedy-hardcore the Hüskers played back in their early days ("All Tensed Up", "Bricklayer", "Gilligan's Island", "Push The Button", you name it).

[HUSKERchout]

yeah, i mean, it was 1981...

[jocelynn62985]

I actually like this slower version better. sorry if thats blasphemous and shit

[HUSKERchout]

yeah, either way works for me...this may be my all time favorite husker song.

[kraftwerk456]

Fact: Bob Mould could not afford a regular Gibson Flying V at a punk band salary so he had to buy an Ibanez knock off called a Rocket Roll Sr which went at about 200-300$ at the time.

[theonlytruepunk]

Fucking played the shit out of this record when it came out....infuckingcredible! Thanks for this.  I wish there were bands today that sounded like this.

[AngrierGorilla]

nobody used to play such a wonderful melodic hardcore back at that time (it's 1981!!!)...they were really original, unique

[headtrips1]

@afrohc U speak very well, but no i do not

[thielees]

Amazing to realize just how fast this great band burned out. Only four years later they released Candy Apple Grey, by then the band was held together with chicken wire. Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig all water under the bridge by then. Soul Asylum lapped them twice.

[punk4561]

ONE OF MY FAVORITE BANDS OF ALL TIME

[bman462]

everybody's an authority in a free land

[afrohc]

Is Bob playing a Ibanez? I aways thought he was playing a Epiphone Flying V. By the way, anyone knows the whereabouts of this guitar? He plays a Fender Stratocaster nowadays. (sorry if i wrote something wrong, i'm brazilian).

[carrington1955]

@HUSKERchout

Saw the Huskers in Paris in the early eighties, left the gig and my mate was run over by a taxi and hospitalised fo a day or so. Then saw Sugar three or four times in Britain (one of those was possibly the loudest gig I ever went to) and then saw Bob in Cambridge a year or so ago at a solo gig. All in all a cool dude who makes a fucking racket that has been the soundtrack to my life. Nice one Bob.

[bman462]

punk genius mb

[earmud]

"everybody's an authority in our free land," that says it all about the farce of freedom we are lead to believe as americans. love the du. miss them equally.

[earmud]

one of the best lines of all time: "everybody's an authority in our free land". much love to greg, bob, and grant.