Grant Hart, Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould
| Imię i nazwisko |
Gregory James Norton |
|---|---|
| Data i miejsce urodzenia |
13 marca 1959 |
| Gatunki | |
| Zawód | |
| Aktywność |
1979–obecnie |
| Wydawnictwo |
(tu wytwórnie) |
| Zespoły | |
| Hüsker Dü, The Gang Font, Grey Area, Porcupine | |
Gregory James Norton (ur. 13 marca 1959 w Rock Island)[1] – (...)
American musician, formerly of the band Hüsker Dü. While the majority of the band's songwriting was done by bandmates Bob Mould and Grant Hart, Norton contributed the songs "M.T.C.," "Don't Have a Life" and "Let's Go Die" to Hüsker Dü's debut EP Land Speed Record. He was born in Davenport, Iowa.
After Hüsker Dü disbanded in 1988, Norton formed the band Grey Area with Hüsker Dü engineer Colin Mansfield and Jo Jones. After Grey Area disbanded in 1991, Norton left the music business to focus on the restaurant business, opening The Norton's Restaurant(now closed) in Red Wing, Minnesota. Norton returned to the recording industry in 2006, with a new band Gang Font feat. Interloper. The group is composed of Norton, Dave King (of The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Halloween, Alaska, 12 Rods and the Love-Cars), Eric Fratzke of Zebulon Pike and Happy Apple, and Craig Taborn. He is known for his large handlebar moustache. In 2016 Greg joined La Crosse, WI band Porcupine as their bass player to replace Davey Reinders.
Życiorys
- Greg’s parents were separated, and he lived with his mom in a small ’60s-style tract home in the nondescript middle-class suburb Mendota Heights. - See a Little Light
- Norton attended Henry Sibley High School in West St. Paul. “I already knew how to roll a joint before I entered high school and that really helped hone my people skills once I was there,” remembers Norton. “When I was fourteen, I worked in downtown St. Paul, when there was still an actual, vibrant downtown with lots of theaters, lots of cool things happening. Then, over the years, St. Paul literally died. They did some weird things with some malls, they tried to copy some things done elsewhere, but St. Paul culturally, more or less, died towards the end of the ’70s, which was sad to see.” - History of Noise Pop Pioneers
- Norton worked at record store called Northern Lights down on University Avenue - See a Little Light
- Hart: „I was a mall rat at the Signal Hills Mall in West St. Paul on Robert Street,” he explains, going on to describe time spent in the mall’s record store, Melody Lane. “I probably put in a thousand hours sitting on the radiator being turned onto new and different music by this employee named Mark Wheeler. Also on staff there was Sharon Boyd, a funky little fox that had more or less made lip service to me about the possibility of working there. I, of course, took this to be a job offer. Then one day I go up there and a new guy [Greg Norton] is working. I approached Sharon, asking her why she didn’t call me about the job, and her response was, ‘Grant, you’re only fifteen.’ - History of Noise Pop Pioneers
- That new employee was a lanky teen - one year older than Grant - named Greg Norton. Norton remembers his first encounter with Grant a short time later. “I was hired at Melody Lane in February of 1978, and I met Grant a month later,” Norton says. “I’m walking through the mall and this kid comes up to me and says, ‘Hey man, you took my job … Sharon said I could have a job at the store once I turned sixteen, but she went and hired you!’” - History of Noise Pop Pioneers
- “We hung out a lot in my basement on Pontiac Place,” Norton says, referring to his mom’s address in suburban Mendota Heights, an address that would later appear on most Reflex Records releases. “Also, in the year leading up to the band forming in March of 1979, Grant and I spent a lot of time at the Longhorn. We went to a lot of shows, and Grant was underage. The funniest thing was, on his eighteenth birthday, when he was finally legal, they carded him for the first time and he’d left his ID at home. They wouldn’t let him in.” - History of Noise Pop Pioneers
- Mould: I met Grant’s friend - his name was Greg Norton - and sure enough, he had a bass. I think he even had a strap for it too. Greg wasn’t the same type of outsider as Grant or me; he had the air of a connoisseur - a hep cat, a skiddly-bop-bo kind of deal. He was into Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, outside stuff. I thought, What is this jazz bullshit? Greg was also a big fan of new-wave cult favorite Gary Wilson and his album You Think You Really Know Me. We all enjoyed that album, but I think it eventually had a big influence on Greg’s singing style. - See a Little Light
- Mould: „We both viewed music from a melodic perspective, whereas Greg was more a fan of dissonance” - See a Little Ligh
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