What I just learnt about Hüsker Dü

So I’m researching my paper on the style and substance of punk, right, for AMCULT 206. Anyway, I get sidetracked on Wikipedia (as is my wont) and wind up at Hüsker Dü’s entry. These are the fun facts I learnt thereon:

[The band] owed their new name to a sloppy rehearsal of the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer.” Unable to recall the French portions sung in the original (”qu’est-ce que c’est…”), they began shouting any foreign-language terms they could remember, when someone said “Husker Du”, a board game from Denmark that had been popular in the 1960s (the phrase means “do you remember?”). The group added heavy metal umlauts, and had their new name. [Bob] Mould reports that they liked Hüsker Dü’s somewhat mysterious qualities, which set them apart from other hardcore punk groups with names like “Social Red Youth Dynasty Brigade Distortion” (Azerrad, 162).

and

The newly-monikered group had their first official performance in early 1979. A short way into the show, one of [drummer Grant] Hart’s friends unplugged [erstwhile keyboard player Charlie] Pine’s keyboards and gave him the finger. The remaining musicians made no objection, and Hüsker Dü formally became a trio.

Finally, Greg Norton had a handlebar mustasche. For real.

(Oh, the “Azerrad” cited above and throughout the article is Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life. I read a review of it four and a half years ago in The Nation of all places, and since then I’ve seen the book referenced probably more than any other recent musical history. I’ve gotta pick it up one of these days.)