‘Willpower’. ‘Mats / Bill Callahan

"On the inside of The Shit Hits The Fans cassette, it said, “Write to Bill Callahan. Believe it or not, there’s a fanzine about us.” I couldn’t believe someone would have a fanzine just about the Replacements. So I wrote Bill Callahan a letter and sent him some stamps. The ‘zine was called Willpower, and he did six issues. They were really funny—they’d have cartoons about the Replacements he drew, and it was extremely comedic. We’d write back and forth—it wasn’t like a super-detailed pen-pal thing, but we were friendly—and eventually he started doing another ’zine and I went to college. I don’t remember how I put two and two together, but years later I discovered he was the guy in Smog."

- Craig Finn, Hold Steady