Hüsker Dü’s more melodic take on hardcore struck a chord with college students, and various tracks from Metal Circus , particularly Hart’s “Diane”, were put into rotation by dozens of campus radio stations across the U.S. In addition, on Metal Circus the band showed more invention, skill, and melody than…
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In early 1983 Albini met Naked Raygun singer Jeff Pezzati through mutual friends and convinced him to play bass guitar with Big Black. Pezzati recalled that Albini “knew a heck of a lot about, right from the start, how to release a record and get the word out that you…
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They were influenced by The Faith (Eddie Janney’s previous band) and their 1983 EP Subject to Change with their introspective lyrics and angry, melody-tinged songwriting.
The next album, Over the Edge , issued in 1983 by Trap via Brain Eater Records, was the first Wipers record to gain significant modern rock airplay. It was led by the song, “Romeo”, which had already been released the previous year as a 7″ single by Trap. The band…
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Albini named his new musical project Big Black, calling the moniker “just sort of a reduction of the concept of a large, scary, ominous figure. All the historical images of fear and all the things that kids are afraid of are all big and black, basically.” He used the Lungs…
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Henry formed Napalm Beach with Chris Newman in 1982. He remained an active musician in Portland, Oregon, and continued to play with Napalm Beach and Don’t, as well as popular Pacific Northwest songwriters such as Pete Krebs , Morgan Grace and Jimmy Boyer. Henry died from complications of stomach cancer…
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The original members of Flipper, save for the late Shatter (with Bruno DeSmartass again replacing Shatter, as he had done for a 1982 tour), reunited to support CBGB on August 22 and 28, 2005. This lineup then continued to perform live beginning in 2006.
Albini began playing in college bands, including a short-lived “arty new wave ” act called Stations that featured a drum machine . Seeing the advantage in a machine that could play incredibly fast without tiring, always kept a steady beat, and would follow commands exactly, he purchased a Roland TR-606…
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The band released the ” Statues ” single on their own Reflex Records in January 1981. Playing a show in Chicago brought them to the attention of Black Flag . When Hüsker Dü were ready to release their first album Land Speed Record , Black Flag’s label, SST, was not…
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Haynes and Leary played their debut show at a San Antonio night club, The Bonham Exchange, in 1981; at that time, they had not yet settled on the band name “Butthole Surfers”. By 1982, the band was backed by the sibling rhythm section composed of bassist Quinn Mathews and his…
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