Artemis II: They never travel far, without a little Big Star
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Barret Hansen, Dr. Demento Narrator Rob Hahn Interviewer December 27, 2018 University Club, St. Paul, MN BH: I’m Barret Hansen, Barry Hanson for short, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I grew up here in Minneapolis. I was born in 1941, and best known nowadays as Dr. Demento; that’s the name I use on the radio, the syndicated show that I have had since 1970, and it’s the reason why I’m dressed up like this. That became my normal garb when I make appearances as Dr. Demento. RH: I’m Rob Hahn; I’ll be asking the questions. Today is December 27, 2018, and we are at the University Club in St. Paul, Minnesota. Let me start generically as we talk about Dinkytown. Recount if you would your first impressions of Dinkytown. BH: My first impressions of Dinkytown, it was a place with a couple of drug stores and some other stores and students and other academic looking people walking around along with fairly ordinary folk. It was a place where I could catch the streetcar, when I first came—they were still running trolly cars up to 1954, so my first couple of years commuting to Kenwood where I lived I took the trolley downtown and then transferred to a bus. I remember those old Harriet streetcars very well. RH: We’ve talked to people who went to Marshall High or Marshall University. You actually went to University High when it was all by itself. BH: Yeah, before the merger. Peik Hall on the campus—right inside the campus, 14th and University. It was a very short walk to Dinkytown. Along the way, however, I’d cross over the railroad tracks, which was probably more exciting to me than anything else I encountered in the neighborhood because I loved trains and they were still running steam engines at that time. I liked few things better than to stand on that bridge while a steam engine went underneath and I breathed all this noxious coal smoke. At age 13 I thought that that was wonderful.
I really like that oral history interview of Barret Hansen, or Dr. Demento, from about eight years ago. It's wide-ranging and digressive, as it should be, but I'm going to pull out some choice #localangle #rockfacts parts about his early days growing up in Minneapolis and starting to collect music.
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Eddie Cochran
Bob Dylan in brimmed white hat at piano
Suicide Commandos at First Avenue
So for one week in 2026 **and one week only** Eddie Cochran had the honor of having his song covered by these two musical acts from his home state. #rockfacts #localangle
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Bespectacled Osgood with other extras on a bus
One of Chris Osgood’s post-Suicide Commandos gigs was playing a MTC bus passenger in the 1980 feature film “Foolin’ Around” #rockfacts
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They DID it! Ladies and gentlemen that’s a stone cold #localangle #rockfacts
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IF the Suicide Commandos do “Nervous Breakdown” tonight, the #localangle #rockfacts history of these three stories Minnesota music acts will be that *for exactly one week in 2026* Dylan and the Commandos covered the same Cochran song.
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One #localangle #rockfacts is that the Jayhawks recorded some of “Hollywood Town Hall” at Wally Heider’s *previous* studio in Hollywood, California. Which must be part of the joke.
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I’ve been dipping into Dylan’s “Chronicles” memoir and one nice #localangle #rockfacts thing he does is correctly use the term “southeast Minneapolis”
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This is a #rockfacts that was long ago incorporated into my DNA. When you say “The Clash,” several neurons fire up yet again to formulate the thought: “Yes, but …”
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In a few years’ time, I’d write and sing songs like ‘It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding),’ ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,‘ ‘Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,‘ ’Who Killed Davey Moore,‘ ’Only a Pawn in Their Game,‘ ’A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall‘ and some others like that. If I hadn’t gone to the Theatre de Lys and heard the ballad ‘Pirate Jenny’ it might not have dawned on me to write them, that songs like these could be written Bob Dylan -‘Chronicles’
FACT: The singer-songwriter portrayed by Timothée Chalamet in "A Complete Unknown" credited his own songwriting breakthrough to an experience he had at the opera. #rockfacts
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I like that #rockfacts like the time the Replacements sent up a real Bat Signal into the night sky over Minneapolis are in a book so that we can remember that they are real #rockfacts and really happened. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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"And yet we're sending people to the moon"
When Prince released "Sign O' The Times" in February 1987, it had been 14 years since we sent people to the moon. #rockfacts
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My band was supposed to be the support for the band that was the support for Catatonia once. But we didn't in the end. #RockFacts #TOTP
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It's pronounced shar-DAY
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Here comes Harry Dean Stanton to introduce the musical guest. Smart.
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Thanks, TIL! And just since that article mentions Jewel, I must re-up the #rockfacts #localangle that she is a massive fan of a local musician. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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The punter for the Indiana Indianans is from the same town in Australia as the Saints.
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In case you were wondering as I was, “Hardly Getting Over It” and “Can’t Hardly Wait” were released a year apart, in March 1986 and March 1987 respectively. #rockfacts
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I stumbled on a fun #localangle #rockfacts band/story I had not heard of before, and will be posting about here once I get my head/ears wrapped around them. Fun fact: They have to be the first to record a song by Eddy Grant in Minneapolis.
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album cover with band members in foreground in color and bridge with lock and dam structure in almost black and white in background with clouds and a black sky
Intersecting #localangle #rockfacts:
1. Night Moves is a band from Minneapolis, MN.
2. The artist for their "Double Life" album cover (feat. Ford Pkwy Bridge) is Robert Beatty of Lexington, KY.
3. Since 2001 Beatty has had a band called Hair Police.
4. Since 1986 Mpls has a salon called Hair Police.
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Keith Richards has been to Excelsior Amusement Park.
#rockfacts #localangle
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Fact: Marion Ross is still with us and has lived a long life. Eddie Cochran died young at age 21. Now 97, Ross is 4-2/3 times older than Cochran ever was.
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ari melody is gay #RockFacts
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The #RockFacts psychosis event
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i love spending quality time with my girlfriend #RockFacts
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the steam deck was released #RockFacts
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the steam deck was released #RockFacts
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i eated all the trout. this could be bad for the trout population #RockFacts
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