While Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston topped the charts in the early 90s, the band Sugar was in its heyday.

 

Bob Mould was the lead vocalist and guitarist for Sugar, whose highest selling album, “Copper Blue,” was released in 1992.

 

The 52-year-old Milwaukee-based Mould performed songs from “Copper Blue” during Fun Fun Fun Fest Friday.

 

Before making music with Sugar, Mould was a founding member of the 80s punk band Hüsker Dü.

 

With his bald head, white beard and red face, Mould looks like a high school shop teacher.

 

The 5 p.m. crowd was fairly mellow, consisting of mostly 30- and 40-somethings nodding their head in approval to the beat.

 

Mould’s enduring vocal talent was apparent while singing the hearty, breathy lyrics of “The Slim” and he let the crowd loosen up a bit on the up-tempo toe-tapper “If I Can’t Change Your Mind.”

 

His voice sounded almost as fresh live as on the album recorded twenty years ago, if not for a few slurred and unintelligible verses.