Rescued after 40 years, Húsker Dú’s near-mythical homecoming set at Minneapolis’s First Avenue club (where much of Purple Rain was filmed) has been properly mixed and mastered at last.
At one stage, this performance was expected to emerge. The band had recorded the set to 24-track tape at the time, expecting to release it as a live album later in the year. But their star rose rapidly and priorities shifted – the tapes were shelved, pending a further look, and in 2011 when a house fire destroyed a huge portion of the Hüsker Dü archive, it was assumed to have burned. Thankfully the tapes have been saved and restored completely by Electrical Audio, so we can finally get to hear how the band were shaping up before ‘New Day Rising’ and ‘Flip Your Wig’…

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