#143 - Benny Horowitz (The Gaslight Anthem)

Behind the Vinyl

This interview does not need an introduction - especially if you are from New Jersey. I was super excited to chat with Benny Horowitz because some of my favorite stories to hear from the NJ music scene are about The Gaslight Anthem's New Brunswick days. We covered a lot of ground inside of this hour window. Benny has been in a ton of projects, even when Gaslight was fully rolling. He talked about his days of working at a Rutgers newspaper and not having a perminant home to lay his head during the beginning of his career. There were a lot of nights of eating pizza in a hotel room. Horowitz also discussed an offer to keep stats for the NBA when Gaslight was taking off and having a decision to make - he obviously picked the music path, without hesitation, but had a friend in his ear who believed he was making the wrong decision. There's an epic conversation about musician's using their platform to get a message out, and how Horowitz feel some of his decisions are even more important now that he has kids. Horowitz tells a fun story about a date night with wife. We talked the return of Gaslight and Horowitz releases some of his favorite deepcuts.