"Like East Germans."

Hüsker Dü in Philadelphia, mid-1980s (Grant Hart not pictured). Photo by Savage Pink.

"It was 'OK, we're not from L.A. and we're not from New York and we're not from London,' but we felt pretty good and we could play with the best of 'em." But the problem was not that they weren't from L.A., New York or London -- they weren't even from Minneapolis. "We were St. Paul people, which was like East Germans," Hart explains. "So we had to live that down."

-Grant Hart of Hüsker Dü, in Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981-1991, 2001.