The Gaslight Anthem - History Books (October 27th 2023) Album • Page 106

Would have loved to get history books or spider bites but literally whatever the show rocked.

For the “brian yaps too much” crowd they certainly put that to rest. Dude didn’t speak into the mic until 7 songs in

 

Yeah that dad weird. I honestly could have done with more yapping but I know they’re todays the end of tour

 

Don’t think he bantered for more than 45 seconds, haha.

 

This was easily my favorite of the 3 TGA shows I’ve been to since the reunion.

They seemed to be having a great time and sounded damn near tight.

 

Happy 16th to The ‘59 Sound!

 

Yeah he seems to have stopped the banter completely on this tour

 

out of the 11 times i've seen them, that was one of the best. i do miss brian's banter a bit though

 

Feels like he took people complaining about the banter last tour to heart and went hard in the other direction.

 

Ain't that a shame

 

After like 6+ solo shows and a few banter led Gaslight shows, I was totally fine with them ripping through song after song last night lol

They sounded real good and def looked to be having a great time and that is truly all that matters to me. Just happy to have them back playing shows, banter or not

 

Oh yeah, they sounded incredible. I just like banter but I certainly wasn’t like disappointed haha

 

seein' the fellas this evening

 

Gonna tell Brian Fallon to call you a nerd.

 

dont be mad at me just because you were mean to flood

 

Nashville was pretty good, but DC blew it out of the water. Mostly nice to be able to hear Brian's vocals and people singing along, but the setlist hit all the right notes compared to Nashville. The two shows combined gave both a good run of the catalog (glad to see the American Slang songs they're playing now) + the new record, and DC was the best of the 4 times I've seen them since the reunion. DC even got some surprise songs that weren't on the original setlist!

Side note, but the Nashville show started at 7 and ended at 10:30, but the DC show started at 8 and ended at 11:30. Gotta find a balance there.

 

Seeing them on Friday - do they change the setlist every night?

 

Probably 5-7 songs different per night or so

 

They seem to be kinda winging it too a bit lol. For the Boston show neither 1930 nor Smells Like Teen Spirit were on their planned setlist.

 

They've only played Backseat once or twice on this tour and I was lucky to be there for one of them. Amazing what a difference that one song can make. I adore it so much.

 

I wanted Positive Charge and struck out both times, can't win 'em all!

 

What do I have to do to get Spider Bites on this tour?

 

I got it twice, try thanking the band?

 

The only religion I adhere to is this one.

 

My experience, if you want to get them to add a song to the setlist, you first have to exchange many tweets with Benny discussing basketball, and ideally if your team can trade his team all your best players for draft picks, that seems to get it done.

 

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