Victory with a moustache !

[SKATE RAT]

Greg Norton from HUSKER DU.playing a Victory standard,and "being that guy" who wears his own bands shirt.

[Nocturnal]

He always had that crazy handlebar moustache. I've never understood the appeal to those things. Great band tho!

[SKATE RAT]

the Moustache was the fourth member.

[ampang]

I miss a lot the great stuff that was released in that period by sst..early huskers, minutemen, meat puppets...zen arcade and double nickels on the dime are two monuments for American music.. I wonder where Greg Norton has gone..bob mould and grant hart have kept on releasing stuff somehow during the years, but the bassist and his demode' 70's moustaches just disappeared from the scenes ..great shot that pic!

[uwe]

A Vic, slung low like that, looks great.

[ramone57]

Bob Mould lives in DC now and dj's now and again.

[Freuds_Cat]

Being a Fender player most of my life  until just recently, I actually still get a bit of a shiver when I see Victories. I had a mate back in the 80's who had one and it was damn near the worst bass I had ever played at the time. Very Heavy and unwieldy,  hard work to play and a neck that felt stiff and cumbersome. The few others that I've played in shops over the years did nothing to change this attitude.

Cant get past it really

[Nocturnal]

I saw Greg Norton on some "where are they now" thing once and he had become a chef.

[shadowcastaz]

hey!easy on the chef comments!




besides ,a moustache is a flavor saver

[Dave W]

I saw Greg Norton on some "where are they now" thing once and he had become a chef.

True. Back when I was still in the Twin Cities, he and his wife operated a restaurant in St. Paul called Table of Contents. Then they moved down to Red Wing and opened a restaurant across the Mississippi in Bay City, Wisconsin. Now they're moving it to Red Wing: The Norton's

And he does have a MySpace page here.

[uwe]

Being a Fender player most of my life  until just recently, I actually still get a bit of a shiver when I see Victories. I had a mate back in the 80's who had one and it was damn near the worst bass I had ever played at the time. Very Heavy and unwieldy,  hard work to play and a neck that felt stiff and cumbersome. The few others that I've played in shops over the years did nothing to change this attitude.

Cant get past it really

It's a man's man's bass, no doubt. Heavy? Yes. Unwieldy? Yes. Hard work to play? Not if properly set up. And the neck is stiff - in a good way -; modernistic eighties style in shape and feel, but not unergonomic. The Victory is a workhorse, a bit like a too large SUV, the hummer of basses. But it has a nicely ferocious P sound, especially in the passive Standard version.

Uwe

[ampang]

wow a chef!
nice to know...there is a pic of him (looks like him) at the link you provided ..moustache heavy as always..
http://www.thenortonsrestaurant.com/2006-03-31_Nortons_-_4.jpg

punk rock years (or post-punk like it was defined by critics in italy at the time) seem long gone


..and what bass is the one flying with him in this pic?
http://www.winexmagazine.com/images/5point6/small/wt22.jpg

[chromium]

..and what bass is the one flying with him in this pic?
http://www.winexmagazine.com/images/5point6/small/wt22.jpg

That's the Ibanez bass he played (Roadstar II?)

There are some more fleeting glimpses of it in here:

[pamlicojack]

the Moustache was the fourth member.