The Gaslight Anthem Band • Page 211

Somehow I forgot how great National Anthem is until now.

 

I have a question, when they broke up there was a lot of "there is nothing more to say" type rhetoric. Is the common belief that all four of them wanted to stop? Or that JUST BRIAN wanted to stop.

I have always assumed it was Brian........in which case, the other 3 guys would jump to reform whenever Brian is/was ready.

Do you good people think that assumption is accurate, or do you think multiple members were unhappy, burnt out, wanted to do other things?

 

PS - this is the best band in the world and I am HERE FOR THIS, whatever it is

 

I mean, how in the weeds do you want to get?

 

into the thick of it

 

It was a lot of everything, I’m guessing.

I can imagine all of them were severely burn out. 5 albums (plus Horrible Crowes) in an 8 year period with endless tours and no breaks seemed like a lot. Obviously there was the divorce which probably causes some internal turmoil when it’s a sister of your band mate, plus they were starting families and kids, plus ridiculous expectations and bad press after Get Hurt.

I think taking a break made all the sense of the world now. And I think 7 years later the dust can be settled and seems like a great time to get back. I hope.

 

I don’t have any insider information, but I think Brian in particular can get in his own head a bit with regards to what makes a “Gaslight” album, and what fits under that umbrella. I remember when he went and made Elsie the other guys in Gaslight seemed to suggest they would have been happy to make an album in that mould.

Even his first two solo albums, while sonically different from TGA, I could see pretty easily slotting into a more Gaslight direction if he had wanted to. Maybe I’m alone in that thinking, though.

Again, I don’t know the specifics, but reading between the lines of interviews and press over the past seven years, it seemed to be Brian leading the “we need a break” charge. More power to him, of course, but that’s how I’ve come to interpret it.

 

I want to know everything that I don't know

 

this is getting annoying. when will they announce something

 

Brian was very OVERLY sensitive about the reviews of Get Hurt, I always thought that was a pretty big driver in that decision, but what do I know. And as I have said 100 times, Get Hurt is great and I hate that it was reviewed the way it was.

 

respectfully, go away.

 

I've always thought Sleepwalkers would have been the next step for this band. That's why it's my favorite thing Brian has done.

 

Sleepwalkers definitely could have been a TGA album, Painkillers too, although to a lesser extent.

Elsie and Local Honey seem more like solo albums to me

 

I remember that coming out with the Handwritten press.

The first two solo albums absolutely could have been Gaslight albums. Local Honey could have been, too, but it would have been a big change.

 

They toured 4 years ago, and Brian said he has not plans to record any new Gaslight material

 

certainly things can change in 4 years

 

Seems to me that they are just gonna tour the 10th anniversary of Handwritten like they did with '59 Sound

I'm happy to be wrong though

 

I also am not EXPECTING more than a tour but some comments this week in this thread by some users is giving me some hope and I’ll gladly be wrong and accept music down the line. A tour is also literally great with me if that was it.

 

this was all the notice they gave about the 2018 tour.

theyre doing alottttttttt more for this to just be a tour, in my opinion.

 

Lol is that really all they did?

 

then silence for almost a month

then

 

That's incredible haha

 

Yeah that makes me think it’s more than a tour.

 

Here comes my man thinking he's K.

 

y’all setting yourselves up to feel pain