![]() ![]() ![]() Can I offer you this much to come?' I was 15 years old. ![]() You'd call and be: 'I book this Elks' Lodge in New Jersey and I see you're touring. You'd get a great seven inch that you loved, and either someone from the band or someone from the label's phone number was on the insert. "I really fell in love with the local scene and when I became a promoter it was really cool. Horowitz's punk rock scruples come from his teenage years, from playing in bands and putting on shows while he was meant to be in high school. I would have let my punk rock and white-guilt scruples hold us back too much." "I'm a realist and kind of a curmudgeon, and in retrospect I think it's been good in both ways: we didn't go too far, too fast, which I can give myself some credit for, and at the same time if I was running the band we wouldn't have gone as far as we have. "Brian always had pretty grand expectations of what we could do," says Benny Horowitz, Gaslight's drummer and commercial conscience. Talk to Fallon's bandmates, or to other musicians who know him, and almost the first thing that gets mentioned is how driven he is. As long as you buy nothing stupid, you'll be OK." I figured we could make a living off that. "I had a five-year plan," he says, "to get to 500-seat venues and tour by ourselves and fill a room everywhere we go. All four members, bar bassist Alex Levine – Fallon's brother-in-law, who was signed up because he was reliable and was taught to play his instrument by Fallon – had bounced around groups, and forming Gaslight in 2006 was more or less their last shot.įrom the start, though, Fallon had a goal. The we're-the-same-as-you attitude comes from Gaslight's roots in the New Jersey punk scene, among bands such as Hot Water Music and Bouncing Souls. But they crucified Jesus! They shot John Lennon! I'm not looking for that kind of thing, I'm not into this." He laughs, to show he is not comparing himself to Jesus, and blows cigarette smoke out of the bus window. It's kind of this huge thing of idolising and hero worship and – people say – religious experience. "The best thing you could ever say to your credit is you refined it a little. "You were born with that talent," Fallon expands. As guitarist Alex Rosamilia explains in the cool of their tourbus earlier that day: "We come from that school where we don't believe we're different from you and it's insulting to me on some kind of weird level that musicians are put on a pedestal." And as the Gaslight Anthem, unusually for a straightahead rock band, get bigger and bigger and bigger – their fourth album, Handwritten, entered the UK charts at No 2 and the US charts at No 3 – so Fallon finds the expectations and demands of their fans more and more difficult to meet. ![]()
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