The Gaslight Anthem - History Books (October 27th 2023) Album • Page 94

The location of the venue also probably hurt ticket sales. It’s 20 miles outside of Portland and way out of the way for a lot of people. New venue is right downtown and easy for people to get to. Should have booked that venue off of the bat.

 

one mans humble opinion but the band is great and has great shows and will continue to do so for many years!!!!

 

yes that 90 minute pushback concerns me. Hope we still get a full set

 

Oh it’ll still be a full set, it’ll just go later until 11-1130 which sucks on a weeknight. All shows should start at 7, 8 is too late for a weeknight lol. If anything they will play longer since I’m sure the Forest Grove venue probably has a strict curfew due to noise ordinances.

 

didn't take the stage till 10pm at my venue, finished at 11:45, way too late lol

 

Man they’re so over

 

lets hope not

 

I've listened to the new mix a lot of times now, and the only song that I can clearly say isn't improved with the new mix for me is "Spider Bites". the new mix loses a tiny bit of energy, and I absolutely love the energy of the original mix. it is a close call though, because every other aspect of the song sounds incredible with the updated mix: Brian's voice, the rest of the band, everything. title track is infinitely superior with the new mix. like night and day, demo vs finished version. honestly, the original mix of this song is the one I struggled with the most in its original album form - Brian's voice was so hard to hear, and it stuck out even more because Bruce sounds pretty damn good.

after that, the only song I notice a huge difference with - good or bad - is the closer. I am absolutely in love with the new mix of “A Lifetime of Preludes”. I always thought it was a weird and kinda weak closer, and although I enjoyed the contrast of it coming right after “I Live In The Room Above Her”, it always felt kinda like a gimmick - something about the new mix makes it flow absolutely perfectly for me now and I cannot imagine the album flowing or ending any other way.

there are a few songs - like “Positive Charge” & “Empires” - where I honestly can't say which version I prefer, even if I play the game of listening to the versions back-to-back, but the entire album just sounds better now and is much easier to connect with, and I honestly already loved the album so much to begin with. as someone else already said, the songs were always there.

very cool of the band to do this and recognize that a lot of people don't / can't listen to vinyl.

 

seeing the band tomorrow in Denver.

havne't seen 'em since the Get Hurt tour, which was basically ten years ago now. so excited.

 

spaced i have tix to the SD, thanks for the reminder. Also haven't seen them since Get Hurt.
Wife's first time. Very excited and hoping for an awesome set list...handwritten heavy pls

 

Please report back. Really hoping for a 23-24 song set instead of 19. Makes a big difference! I don't really care what songs they play at this point all that much - it's all good.

 

Haven’t seen them on this tour but I saw them in Philly in Oct. 2022, and it was like they were never away. In fact they were better than ever. The guy who tours with them on keyboards and backing vocals adds a lot.

 

Thank you.

 

It wasn’t a click track

 

Setlist for 07/26/2024 @ Denver

Handwritten
Great expectations
The Patient Ferris Wheel
Weatherman

Mullholland Drive
Keepsake
Spider Bites
Blue Dahlia
Miles Davis
High Lonesome
Mae
1930
Michigan
Boomboxes and Dictionaries
Underneath the ground
45
Autumn
American Slang

The 59 Sound

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This is all off the top of my head. The first 4 songs were in that order. I just jotted down the rest, they are in no particular order. It came out to a 90 minute set.

Overall, the band was top notch. U was at the front and had a blast. Not much from History books but a lot from The 59 Sound. It was cool to hear material from Sink or Swim. I'm sure a correct setlist will be posted soon.

 

The Gaslight Anthem Setlist at Mission Ballroom, Denver

 

Decent set

It baffles me when they don’t play Backseat but whatever. Always a good time at a TGA show. Looking forward to Portland next week

 

There we go!

 

Had a great time it was an awesome set

 

Backseat should be in the set in my humble opinion.

 

The Backseat is an ultimate elite closer

 

Can’t wait for Detroit. Great setlist, even though I know they’ll be changing it a bunch

 

awesome!! Do you know that time roughly they went on at?

 

They started right at 9.

The Dirty Nils - 7 to 7:30
Joyce Manor - 7:45 to 8:30
The Gaslight Anthem - 9 to 10:30

 

Nice to see Blue Dahlia and Film Noir in there