I'm interviewing Craig Finn tomorrow, what should I ask him?

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I have my own ideas... but hit me.

― Quinn (quinn), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:01 (twenty years ago)

"Who are you?"

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

"Did the band record the music on the new album with no idea as to what you were singing or how you'd be singing it?"

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Will he ever re-release the Brokerdealer songs he recorded in between Lifter Puller and Hold Steady (7 or 8 tracks he spread over micro-distributed 3" CDs that are really good!)?

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Kenan I think all the people who'd like the Brokerdealer already have all the songs

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Kenan? That's Ben, surely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

"If a picture paints a thousand words then why can't I paint you?"

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:10 (twenty years ago)

When I moved, I was going through a bunch of old records and I found a 7" from 1989 by a band from Edina, MN named 'No Pun Intended'. The guitarist is listed as Craig Finn. I haven't hooked up my stereo yet, but I assume it's the same CF. Ask him.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Craig Finn intends every pun, I'll have you know.

― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Ash him why he didn't save the Viking Bar.

― p@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Kenan I think all the people who'd like the Brokerdealer already have all the songs

Not true.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

is the guy who plays keyboards and has a bad ironic mustache still around? isn't he kinda an asshole?

will the hold steady be playing te fargo vfw again because that was awesome?

― consigliere (consigliere), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Chips Ahoy is fun. i hope the new record is as good as this track is

― emekars (emekars), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

when will you work with the neptunes?

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

when will you release rap album feat P.O.S.?

― 6335 (6335), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

ask him about the last punchdrunk album! that's totes underrated!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

re: "who are you?" - that's nardwuar's thing, not mine.

re: writing process - he's got a book of writing, and pieces things together to fit the songs as they come together in rehearsal... so it's neither words first, nor music first.

re: brokerdealer - he laughed a bit and said "i don't think so"... but he mentioned wanting to do a Lifter Puller "boxset" with a DVD and a thickass booklet and some other nice sounding things.

and i forgot to ask about the 7" cause we got caught up in other stuff.

Craig's a really nice guy.

― Quinn (quinn), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

he mentioned wanting to do a Lifter Puller "boxset" with a DVD and a thickass booklet and some other nice sounding things.

That clunking sound you heard was T. Tallis, Chuck, Nate and Matos's collective jaw hitting the floor.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

(...and Ben's!!!)

(and thanks a lot for asking, Quinn!)

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

My pleasure... for the record, he said its something he wants to get started on next year, so it's a ways off.

i'm pretty psyched though.

― Quinn (quinn), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:38 (twenty years ago)

that does sound good!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Ask him if he's going to follow up on the remark he made when I interviewed him, when he said he'd move back to the Twin Cities if he could take light rail to a new outdoor Twins stadium.

Also, yes, boxset = hooray

― nate p. (natepatrin), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

You should have asked him about how he feels about the Yankees. You'd have a book worth of material then.

― John Justen,a ninja slapboxing fajitas out of J. Casablancas dental dam. (johnju, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Did you ever consider joining Split Enz or Crowded House?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

The No Pun Intended thing is the same Craig Finn. It was his band when he went to Breck.

― mason butler (mason r butler), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

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