12/13/2023 0 Comments Tad kublerLike I said, it’s hard to know how you get into to show. TK: It’s a room we’re really comfortable with and like playing. Yeah, I just saw you guys in November here. TK: This will be the fifth or sixth time we played upstairs in the last two years. But as far as Jack Daniels, we play in bars all the time. TK: At the same time, I’d like to think that we’re taking their money.ĬF: ( Laughs) Yeah, exactly. TK: Considering it’s something that is around quite a bit wherever we are.ĬF: If it was like military maybe….I would think more upset about it with cigarettes.ĬF: Yeah, the Yankees would be hard. With Jack Daniels it hard for me to get too upset about… No, like if it was some kind of Exxon concert.ĬF: Man, you know, it depends. I guess saw some Jack Daniels lights up there, but other than that we don’t do anything different at all.ĭoes it matter to you who you are playing for? It doesn’t really feel that much different. It’s us getting up on stage and playing songs.ĬF: It’s hard to really differentiate. TK: Sometimes it’s not always your audience but that doesn’t matter so much. We get up for 90 minutes or whatever and do our thing. There is probably some kind of free booze or whatever. It sounds like what you do is somehow RSVP online and you go for free. TK: Liquor companies do these promotional things a bunch. Galen’s into the Brewers and Franz is into the Sox.ĬF: Well, I’m not totally sure it’s a Jack Daniels thing I guess. You don’t get joy when the Twins lose to piss Craig off?ĬF: Galen and Franz are both into it too. I mean, I am with the rest of the guys, but not like these guys are. It’s before the bottom fell out of the market. We sold a bunch of those to support a bunch of different things when we were about 17. Now, supposedly, the one with the whited-out bat is worth.ĬF: It’s worth more? A friend of mine bought a box of basketball cards from Jordan’s rookie year. I finally ended up just buying the one that said. I remember buying a box of Fleer and just digging through them. I remember when I was kid….do you remember the Billy Ripken “Fuck Face” card? An efficient market isn’t always good for collectors. Once the internet came out, baseball cards got kind of worthless because with something that is $60, all of sudden you could find a buyer who was willing to pay it. I appreciate that.ĬF: These are worth… yeah. ( hands Finn a Frank Viola and a Tom Kelly card)ĬF: Oh, thank you. I brought you this as a consolation prize. I don’t like when they started doing the Wild Card games either. I think that should be only in the World Series. I don’t like when American League and National League play each other. The only thing I don’t like is the Interleague. It’s hard for me to get that worked up about the National League at all. They also probably scored more runs.Īre you a vehement hater of the Phillies then?ĬF: Nah, I don’t really care. ( Laughs) One of the two things caused them to win the World Series. And the fact that they won four games and the Cardinals won only three. My assistant editor wanted me to tell you that the only reason the Twins won against the Cardinals was because of the dome.ĬF: Ack. He went to the last 23 games or something, including all the playoffs and the World Series.ĬF: I have not. He grew up in the next town over, so he was the big deal.ĬF: I don’t know if you know Brian Dilworth but he does a lot of the shows in Philly. The crazy thing is that when I was growing up, and I’m not that young, Jamie Moyer was just coming up in the league. He was getting ready for the game a half hour before the game started. It’s the only time I think Bobby has taken a real interest in baseball. We were in South Carolina and rented this house and we were out there at the same time. I am proud to present the Spectrum Culture interview with Craig Finn and Tad Kubler.Īs I told you, I’m from Philadelphia, so I had a pretty good year for baseball.ĬF: Oh yeah! Right on! We were actually down in South Carolina and we watched quite a bit of it as a band. We spoke about baseball, drunk fans and Paul Westerberg. None of us drank alcohol and they both had the markings of musicians tired from being on the road. Since the show had been sponsored by Jack Daniels, technicians set up lights and special booths as the band played.įinn and Kubler met with me for 30 minutes in the Lola’s Room bar below the Crystal Ballroom. Though the band reserved their energy during this run-through, it was a good chance to see the inner workings up close. First, I had the opportunity to watch the sound check, which felt like a private, three song performance. This is the second in a two-part interview series with members of the Hold Steady.Īfter meeting with Franz Nicolay in the hotel, he and I took a shuttle over to the Crystal Ballroom where I would be meeting frontman Craig Finn and guitarist Tad Kubler.
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