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Franz nicolay8/26/2023 In this configuration, the band cut 2014’s Teeth Dreams, before Nicolay returned with a flourish two years later to join the live celebrations for the 10-year anniversary of Boys And Girls In America. Soon after, the Memphis-based Selvidge entered and for a time, the band was a three-guitar live proposition (frontman Craig Finn plays sporadically, with the enthusiasm of a true rock nerd and the attention span of a born lyricist). In 2010, prior to the release of Heaven Is Whenever, Nicolay took his leave. Thrashing Thru The Passion is also the first Hold Steady record to feature Kubler, Selvidge and pianist Franz Nicolay in harness. I’m not going to begrudge a good time and this is guaranteed fun – go see your friends, hang out, rehearse, talk, catch up, play some big rock shows, come home and you’ve paid your bills.” Three’s company ![]() If I had to, I would get on a bus and go for weeks on end. ![]() “You can call it convenience,” guitarist Steve Selvidge says. Rapid bursts of new music – and euphoric shows as and when they please – are in. Its songs, many of which made scattered bows during the past few years whenever the band suited up for one of their weekend-long live engagements, remain packed with the usual deadbeats and ne’er-do-wells, but are almost escapist in their melodic vigour. But Thrashing Thru The Passion bears out Kubler’s theory. To hear a member of The Hold Steady – rock ’n’ roll lifers, the kings of booze-sodden bar-band blowouts – talk about keeping fit is a little odd. 
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