See a Little Light by Bob Mould

Author:Bob Mould [Mould, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: BIO004000
ISBN: 9780316175715
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2011-06-14T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Living in Brooklyn was great, but I was on the road so much now and it started to dawn on me: Why am I paying all this money basically just to store my things in New York? But there was another reason to move. At some point I’m done with a place, spiritually and creatively, and I have to move. I’m sure that sounds crazy to people who have families and worry about school systems and are stationary and taking care of relatives. But Brooklyn wasn’t buzzing for me anymore. I’d done a lot of great work in Brooklyn, but I wanted to try something different. Even though we could have purchased the entire 15,000-square-foot Williamsburg complex for $150,000—which would have been a heck of an investment—the vibe just wasn’t there anymore.

We were making good money at the time, but the taxes were killing us. Texas, on the other hand, was income tax free. Kevin and I both had a long-standing connection in Austin. We both knew Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey from our past lives: Kevin from the Butthole Surfers’ six-month stay in Athens, and me from the early punk days in Dallas–Fort Worth. And I always enjoyed Austin; it was a player’s town, so it was easy to plug in. It made sense to move there, so we took a weekend trip to look for a new home.

Our realtor showed us a beautiful house in the tree-lined Hyde Park neighborhood, ten minutes from the airport. It was a Craftsman bungalow that had been greatly expanded and encased in brick, then fitted out with big stone-arched porches. King lived a few blocks away, other friends lived a little bit farther, and the whole town felt like hipster central. We immediately made an offer on the house, which was accepted. Between the American and European tours in May of that year, we packed up everything in the Brooklyn loft, threw it into a big truck, and went off to Austin. We didn’t look back.

But life has a way of catching up with you, and this was also when Minnesota attorney Doug Myren got involved with Grant Hart and his Nova Mob project, and then wanted to handle the Hüsker Dü estate as well. Myren had gotten the financial books from Greg, who had been grousing about the production money. After talking with Greg and Grant, Myren called me and proposed redoing the books. Those three had reached a consensus: the sixty-forty production split that Grant and I had agreed upon back in 1985 wasn’t fair, and they wanted to redistribute the production money equally among the three band members.

This was the moment when it became clear I was the odd man out. The business and legacy of Hüsker Dü was now firmly in the hands of a small-town attorney and two disgruntled ex-bandmates.

To break it down: When we sold 200,000 albums for Warner, the band grossed $300,000. A quarter of that, $75,000, went to the producer—that is, Grant and me.

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