I rejoice with fellow Hold Steadians at the announcement of the upcoming release of the gruffly named A Positive Rage, the Hold Steady's first live album and tour documentary.
Press says:
The live album was recorded on October 31, 2007 and includes seventeen songs that Craig Finn, Tad Kubler, Galen Polivka, Franz Nicolay, and Bobby Drake performed on the second of their two-night sold-out stand at the Metro in Chicago. The enhanced album will also feature five bonus studio tracks: "Ask Her
Considering I've been eating in restaurants for years, I've been lucky when it comes to biting down on strange, foreign items -- the ingredients that clearly aren't part of the recipe -- in a dish. True, once I nearly chipped a tooth on a little nut. No, not the edible kind, the kind you use to bolt things together.
As a waiter, I've seen customers pull little shards of glass out of their food (but not, thank God, their mouth), and on one horror night, a ten-penny nail and once -- in a pla
