![]() Whereas in Gaslight Anthem I have to make sure that the ship doesn’t tip. And I can then be reckless abandon, throwing guitars around the stage, and it works. There’s three time signatures, and 6/8 in the record, and it was all because of those guys. They all really played like studio musicians, like proper, jazz. I’m gonna lose my mind, but you guys are gonna play like you’re Prince’s band.” And they did. And this was, “Okay, everybody else in the band play with the utmost finesse. It’s just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got. What’s been the biggest difference for you personally between Gaslight and Horrible Crowes? He’s from England he doesn’t understand that stuff. ![]() We’re from the East Coast we might be a little more conniving. I mean, he’s very intelligent, but not a foresight guy. If you knew Ian, he doesn’t have the foresight to do that. Is this like a “dream come true” situation for Ian? Going from guitar tech to working musician is a big move. He’s very smart or very lucky, one of those two things. So I don’t know what’s going on with him. We’ve written more songs for Gaslight Anthem now - we just started writing two weeks ago and there’s four songs - and he’s shown up on every one of them. We found out how good he was and it was like, “Well, somebody’s got to use him … I’ll take him!” And then he snuck his way into playing more. He would kind of goof around really, and then it started sounding good and it wasn’t funny anymore. He had played with us in Gaslight a couple times, just live. Ian Perkins was your guitar tech for Gaslight. ![]() I wondered, If I wrote a couple songs like this, what would it sound like? And then Ian and I started talking and I said, “Well, I’m gonna try and write some songs, and then you write some bass lines and guitar lines over them and we’ll see what it sounds like.” And it ended up sounding really good. So there’s all these records that were slower and moodier, and I couldn’t get away from it. ![]() I was in this weird mood I had just gotten this PJ Harvey record, and this was right around the time that High Violet came out from the National, too. I still had the desire to write, but I didn’t want to write anymore rock n roll songs. After the last record for Gaslight Anthem, I was just bored. The Horrible Crowes’ stuff is darker and slower than Gaslight. Fallon recently called up Vulture, while on the deck of a fishing boat in Sandy Hook, to talk about forming his new band, sticking by his old crew, and his trademark awkward stage moves. Brian Fallon, front man for New Jersey nostalgia punks the Gaslight Anthem, is dipping a toe into gentler waters: His new band, the Horrible Crowes - influenced by somber sounds from the likes of Greg Dulli, PJ Harvey, and the National - drops their hymn-esque Elsie on September 6. ![]()
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