PJ Vogt

Like, did you feel that way towards music?

Like, did you feel that way towards music?

Like, did you feel that way towards music?

This video clip is from December 1997. A 26-year-old Craig Finn is playing with his up-and-coming band, Lifter Puller, on live public television in St. Cloud.

This video clip is from December 1997. A 26-year-old Craig Finn is playing with his up-and-coming band, Lifter Puller, on live public television in St. Cloud.

This video clip is from December 1997. A 26-year-old Craig Finn is playing with his up-and-coming band, Lifter Puller, on live public television in St. Cloud.

Thereafter, we'll refer to this... In the video, Craig Vinn looks quite young, and like a guy who maybe did not have time to change after work. He's wearing a red Oxford tucked into chinos, playing a Telecaster covered in stickers. I will say, lift or puller, I do not love the way I would love what would come later, The Hold Steady.

Thereafter, we'll refer to this... In the video, Craig Vinn looks quite young, and like a guy who maybe did not have time to change after work. He's wearing a red Oxford tucked into chinos, playing a Telecaster covered in stickers. I will say, lift or puller, I do not love the way I would love what would come later, The Hold Steady.

Thereafter, we'll refer to this... In the video, Craig Vinn looks quite young, and like a guy who maybe did not have time to change after work. He's wearing a red Oxford tucked into chinos, playing a Telecaster covered in stickers. I will say, lift or puller, I do not love the way I would love what would come later, The Hold Steady.

Honestly, it might just be that the lyrics are harder to make out, but I do feel like I can already hear some of what Craig Finn is gonna do really well in his next band. He's gonna tell these gossipy stories about an underground world that he has this magic ability to conjure. This seedy, sleazy underbelly of Minneapolis that might only exist in Craig Finn's own imagination.

Honestly, it might just be that the lyrics are harder to make out, but I do feel like I can already hear some of what Craig Finn is gonna do really well in his next band. He's gonna tell these gossipy stories about an underground world that he has this magic ability to conjure. This seedy, sleazy underbelly of Minneapolis that might only exist in Craig Finn's own imagination.

Honestly, it might just be that the lyrics are harder to make out, but I do feel like I can already hear some of what Craig Finn is gonna do really well in his next band. He's gonna tell these gossipy stories about an underground world that he has this magic ability to conjure. This seedy, sleazy underbelly of Minneapolis that might only exist in Craig Finn's own imagination.

People here are always waking up high and bewildered on intersections that alliterate. The drug dealers cross paths with the sorority girls. Everybody wonders about this mysterious fire set at a nightclub called the Nice Nice. It's a world you can sink into. The characters from one song sometimes cameo in another.

People here are always waking up high and bewildered on intersections that alliterate. The drug dealers cross paths with the sorority girls. Everybody wonders about this mysterious fire set at a nightclub called the Nice Nice. It's a world you can sink into. The characters from one song sometimes cameo in another.

People here are always waking up high and bewildered on intersections that alliterate. The drug dealers cross paths with the sorority girls. Everybody wonders about this mysterious fire set at a nightclub called the Nice Nice. It's a world you can sink into. The characters from one song sometimes cameo in another.

By the time Lifter Puller started in earnest, Craig Finn had decided not to pursue his music industry job as a booking agent. In his mind, it just didn't feel right to be working in the industry while simultaneously trying to make it as a musician. Like, maybe people wouldn't take him seriously. So he got a real day job.

By the time Lifter Puller started in earnest, Craig Finn had decided not to pursue his music industry job as a booking agent. In his mind, it just didn't feel right to be working in the industry while simultaneously trying to make it as a musician. Like, maybe people wouldn't take him seriously. So he got a real day job.

By the time Lifter Puller started in earnest, Craig Finn had decided not to pursue his music industry job as a booking agent. In his mind, it just didn't feel right to be working in the industry while simultaneously trying to make it as a musician. Like, maybe people wouldn't take him seriously. So he got a real day job.

And the job he got, not what you'd expect from a man staying up all night in clubs singing songs about arsonists and drug dealers and pimps. It wasn't the one I'd heard. He wasn't an IT guy at Goldman Sachs, but... Honestly, it was pretty close.

And the job he got, not what you'd expect from a man staying up all night in clubs singing songs about arsonists and drug dealers and pimps. It wasn't the one I'd heard. He wasn't an IT guy at Goldman Sachs, but... Honestly, it was pretty close.