Boys Weekend

Craig Finn did an invterview on Pitchfork about Lifter Puller (band before The Hold Steady). The are putting out a book and re-releasing some old music. I recomend you read the whole interview, but this in particular was a neat part. This is the approach to the book:

Pitchfork: Tell me about the Lifter Puller book you put together with Jessica Hopper.

CF: Well, Dan is a photographer, and so is Tad [Kubler], so we have all these amazing photos from the Lifter Puller days. And rather than reissue CDs, we reissued the musical digitally through the Orchard, but then we have this book that’s kind of an accompanying piece. It’s photos, lyrics, and an oral history. Jessica went and interviewed a bunch of people. It kind of came from the concept that someone told me at a bar one night: Lifter Puller was kind of the last band before the internet. It stuck with me.

If you go on the internet, there’s not a ton of information. So rather than having us interviewed in the book, I came up with the concept of interviewing a bunch of people that were around us at the time, printing what they had to say about the band. I wanted there to be some half-truths and some mis-truths in there because I think that that’s one of the glorious things about rock’n’roll. Not to be a Luddite or an old man, but I think that the internet has stamped out some of the beauty of the rumors and innuendos and half-truths. So rather than tell the exact right story, we interviewed a bunch of people who were around at different times, often late nights and hazy mornings, and just tried to piece the story together there. I can tell you that some of the things in there are a little off from the way that I would like the story told, rather than exactly the perfect way.

Link to whole article: http://pitchfork.com/news/37141-the-hold-steadys-craig-finn-reflects-on-the-legacy-of-lifter-puller/

I am excited for this.