Lifter Puller, Rock and Roll!

If I see him around, I'll ask him why he hasn't yet taken advantage of the many possibilities "Eden Prairie" provides.

xpost: pretty sure it sucks.

(Uptown? always assumed) Rainbow Foods
Nankin (RIP)
Penetration (Loring) Park
the corner of 15th and Franklin
Payne Avenue
Yukon Club

Railroad Bridge - the one between 26th and 27th streets? teen ne'er-do-wells park their bikes in the trees and drink on the shore or on the bridge.

Edina -- in "Hornets! Hornets!"
we were livin up at nicollet and 66th. with 3 skaters and some hoodrat chick. drove the wrong way down 169. almost died up by edina high.

The City Center ref in Hoodrat Friend always cracks me up.

And, of course, Lake Street is for Lovers.

There ought to be one of those google map hacks with little flags on all the places.

(shudder)

I think I have all this stuff (the odds and ends collection is all on Soft Rock, it looks like). But still - nice. Also I guess Soft Rock is outta print or something.

http://pitchfork.com/news/37089-pre-hold-steady-band-lifter-puller-remembered-with-reissue-series-book/

digital reissue = laaaaaame

tru. I'd buy Half Dead and Dynamite on vinyl. that one's my favorite.

btw it's kinda lame to me that because tad is in hold steady that the original (and best) lifter puller bassist, tommy roach is sort of written out of the band's history....he was an amazing bassist and quit i think to pursue grad school (i had him as a TA at the u of m once)..but anyway he plays in half dead, which remains their best work, and from what i have been told was very instrumental in writing lifter puller songs when he was in the band and sort of helping to define their sound.

don't call her lazy cause she's crazy about the daytime tv
channel 3, look at me, i'm a real whale watcher

I think it's Wheel watcher

https://i.imgur.com/IDw9f9s.jpg

lmao that makes way more sense, i'm submitting the correction to every lyrics website

every lyric in "touch my stuff" is gold

even though i think fiestas is their masterpiece my fav lifter puller song is "sangre de stephanie," it kinda feels like every thematic touchstone finn explored in both lifter puller and the hold steady ("she crossed herself and it turned me on") appears there

I feel really lucky have seen them dozens of times in small clubs in Minneapolis in those days.

This just surfaced, sound is dodgy but this is def the era, Lifter Puller playing the Dillinger Four Midwestern Songs of the America's release show on a boat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFByA1t6KG4&feature=youtu.be

oh shit!

I want Night Club Dwight dead in his grave
I want the Nice, Nice up in blazes

I have so much of that album stuck in my head.

it ain't just a money thing it's a question of community, the liberty the ecstasty the love the drugs the unity and the busts they looked just like the hey kool aid commercial, they're breaking down the walls and they're tipping over tables and it tastes great

for a little bit Paddy (St. Paddy) of Dillinger Four is standing in front of the camera.

the whole Lifter Puller/D4/Atmosphere mutual appreciation society was really cool back then

legendary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQulI5RcfOs

another great find! 00 full set from the weisman art museum at the university of mn campus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJxAyApDYrs&feature=youtu.be

Ooh, nice finds. The Jenny Jones one lead me to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoWgl5XeBws

which in turn led me to this Aussie band's cover of same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPEzGabTpK4

which reminded me of how I came across Lifter-Puller via J0hn D's piece on "Mission Viejo":

http://lastplanetojakarta.com/articles/lift.html