![]() He broached the idea to his bandmates after writing several songs he felt good about. By 2021’s record covering traditional hymns, Night Divine, he was inspired again. The conversations were often not about music but their family lives.Īfter Fallon released his third solo album, Local Honey, at the outset of the pandemic, his attention finally again started wandering to the idea of playing in a band again. They listened to the music they would make or had a recording on the way, said Fallon, adding that he stayed in constant contact with Horowitz weekly without putting any thought into it. The four remained in each other’s lives occasionally at first and increasingly as time went on. “It takes like a toll on you emotionally, whether you have problems or not.”Īnd yet, unlike a band that calls it quits because the members don’t like each other, The Gaslight Anthem simply weren’t happy with their situation. “When you’re put in that kind of position and goes … as quickly as it did for us- you go from playing in little houses and basement shows to playing with Bruce Springsteen in a matter of three years or two and a half years, it’s pretty wild,” Fallon said. The pressure they’d felt from their management and the music industry in general-that if they ever turned down an opportunity their career would be snuffed out-had taken a mental toll on Fallon.įor all of the members of The Gaslight Anthem, the band stopped being any fun. There was a short run of shows commemorating the 10th anniversary of 2008 album The ’59 Sound in 2018, but never any possibility of the band getting back together. charts and performing with the likes of their hero Bruce Springsteen. were burned out from nonstop album-making and touring at a time that saw the band hit the top of U.S. The Gaslight Anthem was shelved for the sake of finding normalcy again.īy that point, Fallon and co. Fallon, guitarist Alex Rosamilia, bassist Alex Levine and drummer Benny Horowitz, continued to pursue music during that time (the two Alexes former a side project, Forgivers, and Fallon made solo albums in the singer-songwriter vein. This crisis of heart eventually led to an extended break for the band, starting in 2015. But I was worried that maybe the music I had grown up on-I was kind of like, ‘Am I into this anymore?’ We all felt like that. … I’m still interested in what the youth is doing and what the new ideas are-whether they have me and what I do included in it, or whether it’s beyond us-and I think that that’s still exciting to me. “I was like, ‘Wait, do I not like fast music? Am I not current?’ I know I’m not current with all the music that’s coming out, but I’m as current as I can be. ![]() “It felt like getting old, to be honest with you,” Fallon said.
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