{"id":482175,"date":"2019-02-13T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=794220"},"modified":"2019-02-13T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:45:29","slug":"bob-mould-books-atypically-nostalgic-40th-anniversary-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/bob-mould-books-atypically-nostalgic-40th-anniversary-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Mould Books Atypically Nostalgic 40th Anniversary Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Mould<\/a>, who admits he\u2019s \u201ctypically not the nostalgic type\u201d in a statement, has booked two concerts that will mark 40 years since he launched his music career as a member of H\u00fcsker D\u00fc. The gigs will take place in St. Paul at the Palace on March 30th and the Turf Club on the 31st. The latter show has already sold out.<\/p>\n

In a remembrance, Mould recalled how he started his \u201cprofessional\u201d music career on March 30th, 1979 playing with a band called Buddy and the Returnables that featured the three members of H\u00fcsker D\u00fc and keyboardist-singer Charlie Pine. They were booked for two nights. \u201cMoments before the end of the March 31st show, an audience member yanked the cable out of the Farfisa organ that Charlie was playing, and the three remaining musicians \u2013 who immediately went on to be known as H\u00fcsker D\u00fc \u2013 launched into a handful of hastily-written originals,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

The lineup for the show will consist of current backing band members Jason Narducy on bass and Jon Wurster on drums. He made no mention of reuniting with H\u00fcsker D\u00fc bassist Greg Norton at the show; H\u00fcsker D\u00fc drummer Grant Hart died of liver cancer<\/a> in 2017. Although the band members had parted bitterly in 1987, they worked together again by proxy of a lawyer a few years ago on an early years box set, Savage Young D\u00fc<\/em><\/a>, which came out in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m typically not the nostalgic type when it comes to my work \u2013 but I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t make mention of the importance of my early days in St. Paul, my gratitude to Grant and Greg for those first eight years of music, and my sincere thanks to the people of Minnesota for the centuries of support,\u201d Mould said in a statement.<\/p>\n

In a Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> interview earlier this month, Mould said he felt the band had no desire to reunite. \u201cI think my stance all along was that everything has its place in time, and everything is of a moment,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd what the band did in the Eighties, to try to replicate or duplicate all the circumstances or the emotions or the environment that made it what it was would be pretty tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mould will kick off a tour<\/a> in support of his newest album, Sunshine Rock<\/a><\/em>, in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. The first North American leg of the tour will run through March 2nd before he departs for a European leg and returns on March 30th to start another North American leg with his 40th anniversary shows.<\/p>\n

The album, Sunshine Rock<\/em>, represents Mould\u2019s push toward writing more optimistically, and it began with the title song. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a write-what-you-know kind of guy,\u201d he told Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cSo this time, I was trying to consciously create a little bit of a different world to work in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read Bob Mould\u2019s full 40th anniversary statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I started my \u201cprofessional\u201d stage career as a musician on Mar 30, 1979 at a tiny bar called Ron\u2019s Randolph Inn, located near Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. The name of the band was Buddy and the Returnables \u2013 a four piece fronted by keyboardist\/singer Charlie Pine. I was the guitarist, Greg Norton was the bassist, and Grant Hart was the drummer. We played two consecutive nights.<\/em><\/p>\n

Moments before the end of the Mar 31 show, an audience member yanked the cable out of the Farfisa organ that Charlie was playing, and the three remaining musicians \u2013 who immediately went on to be known as H\u00fcsker D\u00fc \u2013 launched into a handful of hastily-written originals.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fast forward 40 years: I\u2019ll be performing in St. Paul with my longtime bandmates, Jason Narducy and Jon Wurster, at Palace Theater on Mar 30 and Turf Club on Mar 31.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a big anniversary, but my celebration of 40 years in music is for one weekend only. I\u2019m typically not the nostalgic type when it comes to my work \u2013 but I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t make mention of the importance of my early days in St. Paul, my gratitude to Grant and Greg for those first eight years of music, and my sincere thanks to the people of Minnesota for the centuries of support. Looking forward to seeing you on the<\/em> Sunshine Rock tour, wherever it may be.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bob Mould, who admits he\u2019s \u201ctypically not the nostalgic type\u201d in a statement, has booked two concerts that will mark 40 years since he launched his music career as a member of H\u00fcsker D\u00fc. The gigs will take place in St. Paul at the Palace on March 30th and the Turf Club on the 31st. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 00:38:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}