Gaslight Anthem

Merch up. Super limited color singles for anyone who is a member... Go get em.

Ha, yeah I passed on that since you get it with your membership.

I signed up again on the 1 more chance theory. This years member shirt is a lot better material and design. They also added up to 6 months to every current members subscription due to the inactivity last year - pretty good of them. They have now also got a fanclub website and are obviously trying to keep more connected. I have received more emails off them in the last 3 months than I ever have. The online store has had some fantastic specials too - and they are currently having a 50% off everything sale.

FrankieG said:

I need a record release date and tour dates!

This

No Coder said:

I signed up again on the 1 more chance theory. This years member shirt is a lot better material and design. They also added up to 6 months to every current members subscription due to the inactivity last year - pretty good of them. They have now also got a fanclub website and are obviously trying to keep more connected. I have received more emails off them in the last 3 months than I ever have. The online store has had some fantastic specials too - and they are currently having a 50% off everything sale.

What is the member tshirt like this year? Maybe I'll join back up since a new album is on the horizon...

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/05/01/4878599/gaslight-anthems-brian-fallon.html#.U2K6q_ldUrU

Gaslight Anthem finished recording the follow-up to 2012’s No. 3-charting album “Handwritten” in Nashville last month. Before releasing what frontman Brian Fallon calls “a big change for us sonically,” the New Jersey rock band returns to the Fillmore. Fallon spoke to the Observer on the last day of recording about what fans can expect.

Q. Who are you working with on the new record?

A. Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys, Foals) at Blackbird in Nashville, where we did the last record. ... It sounds very different than last one. We wanted to find somebody who had different instincts than we did, so our instincts could remain the same. I find sometimes people go and change their music just to be different. I think you can make a lot of mistakes doing that. When you’re willfully going against your own instincts, that’s a very dangerous place. Your instincts are, I feel, what people like about you.

Q. So it’s the same but different?

A. The songwriting structures, big choruses and a lot of melody – those things you want to indulge in yourself, but you want someone to push the sound in a different direction and still be left with the core of your band.

When you look at bands who’ve developed, the core is still there. Take Pink Floyd. You could still strip it away to an acoustic song or a piano song and it still remains the same, from “Wish You Were Here” to “The Final Cut.” Those chords and those types of melodies. Like Fleetwood Mac’s newer and older records – I can still hear the same things there. As long as you don’t start rebelling against yourself.

Q. As the band’s gotten bigger, do you find you’re more aware of people’s expectations?

A. I am aware that there are people listening to the records and like the band. You feel like you’re part of your audience. The best bands were fans of their own bands. Pete Townsend was the biggest Who fan alive. He knew what his fans wanted. I’m a Gaslight Anthem fan. I like those guys. They write good songs – maybe a couple stinkers, but a couple good ones. You get a sense of your audience. The sense I got after the last tour was we did the best big rock record we could do. We did what we could with that big rock sound. I started to feel this need to find the next thing.

Q. Is this record one that’ll grow on fans?

A. It might grow on some people who might not like it at first or say, “This is too weird, it’s not what I expected.” They’re entitled to that. It’s fair to feel that way, but once you sit with it, after the initial shock, you’ll find similarities to the old records. It still sounds like us.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/05/01/4878599/gaslight-anthems-brian-fallon.html#.U2K6q_ldUrU#storylink=cpy

Got my vinyl a couple of months ago. Maybe send infinite merch a message

Indifference71 said:

No Coder said:

I signed up again on the 1 more chance theory. This years member shirt is a lot better material and design. They also added up to 6 months to every current members subscription due to the inactivity last year - pretty good of them. They have now also got a fanclub website and are obviously trying to keep more connected. I have received more emails off them in the last 3 months than I ever have. The online store has had some fantastic specials too - and they are currently having a 50% off everything sale.

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What is the member tshirt like this year? Maybe I'll join back up since a new album is on the horizon...

It is a lot better than the first one, just not my taste. Basically a band shirt, nice material

63schoefflin said:

I never know wtf is going on with these guys. I just got my first fan club vinyl like 3 months ago. Should we have the second now?

I haven't gotten my 2nd one yet..

63schoefflin said:

I never know wtf is going on with these guys. I just got my first fan club vinyl like 3 months ago. Should we have the second now?

I know it is a new venture, but the fan club isn't very well run. Kinda why I let my membership lapse....have never had issue getting tix to a concert and I don't care much about the vinyl so there wasn't much of a reason for me to remain a member.