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Are they back together? Has the mustached guy rejoined them? If not, did they bring on another keyboard player to play his parts? Kinda need keys for a lot of those songs.

 
'Apple Jack said:
Are they back together? Has the mustached guy rejoined them? If not, did they bring on another keyboard player to play his parts? Kinda need keys for a lot of those songs.
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Back together? :confused:No Franz and no keyboard. Songs work well with an extra guitar instead.
 
'Disco Stu said:
'Apple Jack said:
Are they back together? Has the mustached guy rejoined them? If not, did they bring on another keyboard player to play his parts? Kinda need keys for a lot of those songs.
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Back together? :confused:No Franz and no keyboard. Songs work well with an extra guitar instead.
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I thought they were on indefinite break while Tad got his #### together. I was under the impression that they didn't know if they'd be doing the Hold Steady anymore.
 
Cursory listen, I like the guitars, but the vocal hooks aren't really there. Don't like the double tracked vocals either. I'll probably love it at some point.

 
It almost feels like 80% of a Hold Steady song to me. I don't know if they need the piano or maybe a stronger solo from Tad or just a change in the mix, but there's just something a little restrained about the song.

 
Tour dates are out. Dallas stop is on a Wednesday, but I'll probably go anyway. Deer Tick opening is an added bonus. :banned:

 
Toronto date#!#!#!#!#!#!!#!##!

Interesting that Tad and Craig basically don't talk to each other anymore according to the Pitchfork article here: http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9327-massive-nights-ten-years-of-the-hold-steady/

Both Kubler and Finn say that the lead up to writing 2010's Heaven Is Whenever felt a little disconnected, the process a little rushed. Finn hedges and says simply the band needed a little break; Kubler says it was due to his own seclusion following his diagnosis, now that he was unable to drink like the rest of the band.

Kubler cleaned up in early 2010, just as the band was mixing Heaven Is Whenever, which debuted at No. 26 on the Billboard charts, a new high. But after spending years living up to his own ultimate drinking band code onstage, Kubler was now sober under the lights.

“It’s ####### terrifying,” says the guitarist. “And it can be really hard when the rest of the band is six drinks into the evening and you’re not. It’s like, ‘How do I feel like a part of what’s happening here when I’m not involved in that part of it?’ It took me a year to really get involved—I’m sure I was a miserable ##### for a lot of that time too, because I didn’t know what I was doing.”

"If somebody's drinking that much and they have to stop, there’s an adjustment period of their personality," says Finn. "Tad came into the band as someone who was pretty rock'n'roll in his behavior and he had to go from being the most likely to be out until five in the morning to being the least likely. Our shows became less drunken, less crazy. It changed the culture of the band.”

Unbeknownst to Kubler at the time, Finn went to Austin to record a solo album after the Heaven Is Whenever tour wrapped. What was supposed to be a three month break for the band turned into a year-and-a-half hiatus. Kubler started writing songs on his own and with the rest of the Hold Steady, which now included guitarist Steve Selvidge. The music for their forthcoming sixth album, Teeth Dreams, was written completely separate from Finn.

“When the band first started, Craig and I spent a lot of time together, we just hung out and were bros," remembers Kubler. "It's weird because when I was in Lifter Puller, Craig and I didn’t have that relationship, because I had one lifestyle and he had another. Now, that’s kind of happening again.” As he says this, we sit on the couch in his Greenpoint loft, located just a couple blocks from Finn’s place. “I never see the guy.”

For the brief tour leading up to their anniversary show, the band have been winding their way up from Tennessee, where they recorded Teeth Dreams. They’ve been doing radio shows at terrible hours of the morning. Kubler says he and Finn normally don’t do interviews together because he rambles on so much and Finn “doesn’t want to let anything out.”

“It’s hard for Craig to recognize other people,” says Kubler. “We were doing a radio show, and he says, ‘I’m really glad we got Steve in the band,’ and it’s like, 'Are you ####### kidding me?' I love Steve, but I still wrote the songs! It’s so hard for him to recognize anything like that. He loves to withhold. There’s humility with Craig, but I always wonder how genuine it is."

He’s sure to point out that there’s no animosity between the two, though. “We’re not like the Davies brothers,” says Kubler. “I ####### love the guy. It’s just… he’s a very, very complex person."
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The Hold Steady and Deer Tick covering each other #nohomo has me (more) excited for their show in two weeks. :banned:

Deer Tick's version of "Constructive Summer" is really strong imo. YMMV since his voice is an acquired taste.

 
I went to your schools
I did my detention but the walls were so gray I couldn't pay attention
I read the gospel it moved me to tears
but I couldn't find the hate and I couldn't find the fear

I met your savior I knelt at his feet
and he took my ten bucks and went down the street
Tried to believe all the things you said but
my friends that aren't dying are already dead
 
They played their first shows in 18 months last weekend. Franz Nicolay is back touring with them but Steve Selvidge is staying as well. Add them to Craig, Tad, Galen and Bobby and I'm curious to see how they sound as a six piece band... which I will find out this coming Sunday at TURF in Toronto. It's a 10 year anniversary Boys and Girls in America which is awesome, but (here comes the ultimate first world music nerd problem), BAGIA is the album I saw them play in their entirety a couple years back when they played four nights at the Horseshoe Tavern. I know, poor me, I have to hear one of the best albums of the 00s from one of the best bands there is for a second time.

 
Seeing these guys again tonight in Toronto. They tweeted the opening bands as: 

Openers? We've got them! So excited - Night 1 @wkndfriends , Night 2 - @hausedave, Night 3 - ???, Night 4 - @PKEWX3! See you at @HorseshoeTavern! #THSCS
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Tonight is night 3 and somehow the ??? listing as opening band has me even more hyped.

 
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