Finn and guitarist Tad Kubler come from Minnesota, and The Hold Steady songs are infused with the place and spirit of the Replacements, who came out of Minneapolis to be the best rock ’n’ roll band of the 1980s — when the teen-aged Finn was discovering music.“They’re a big part of why I’m in a rock band,” he said. “When we started the Hold Steady, it was, ‘Wow, there are no bands with big guitars and smart lyrics. That’s what the Replacements' thing was. What about a smart band that rocks?’”
That thinking has led many to compare The Hold Steady to Bruce Springsteen, Finn said. But “I’ve listened to 100 Replacements records for every Springsteen record, and I’m a huge Springsteen fan.”
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