Tom Gabel: We're Gonna Do Our Own Thing

http://www.beyondrace.com Harvest of Hope Fest 2009: BRM talks to Tom Gabel of Against Me! about the next record, surviving the puritanical punk backlash, the digital age of music and the future.

Interview by Dave Terra
Filmed and Edited by Kyle Timlin
http://www.beyondrace.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• TomGabel
• AgainstMe
• BeyondRace
• BRM
• NoIdea
• HarvestofHope
• HOH
• 2009

[mjguerette]

everyone is fucking stupid... if you like the band then you like them, if you like their lyrics then you like then, if you dont you dont who gives a shit about record labels and all that bullshit. if you stop liking a band solely because they signed to a record label (but you still like the music) then you're fucking stupid. if you dont like the music anymore because its "changed" then fine, but why would you waste your life away telling people over the internet?

[edizzidydawg]

Most of the whiners about "selling out" are too young to have had reality kick them in the head a few times. If any of you whiners go to school and rack up debt to get a good job, just remember to take the shittiest position and worst-paying station you can get for all of that hard work you did. Otherwise you're a "sell-out."

[scandalist1]

Haha, Bouncing souls in the background

[graciexoxo99]

he such a cutie!

[InsideOutRW]

My paragraph is about is about how Against Me! sold out and fuck them and there shifty ways.... god damnit people, seriously?

[artfanatsymanic]

@yngj77 MAYBE they'd like to play music for a living, to make money, to support their families : )

[ChrisFalcone22]

Its fucking music, like it or not. Get over it, jesus.

[resist360]

by the way, fans who don't like it, its ok not to like it, but most of you dont like it because you dont understand where they are coming from. stop thinking you are entitled to the album you want. you were never real fans anyway, get educated get a bit of tolerance and then come back. because unlike you we'll take an open minded person back into the fold

[resist360]

1. they are using a major label to promote their message of harmony, peace and common sense, more people get that message if you have a major label. 2. selling out is when you change your entire career in order to fit in and make money. they are still talking about the same stuff, they arent writing songs that everyone will love. and 3. i was a teenage anarchist is about being young and thinking their are simple soloutions to problems. he is older and realises things arent that simple

[scottbrown420]

Give the money back to the record label.

[cameronnnnnnnnnnnnn]

fuckin paragraph long comments

[SpiderShane1]

@citizen0anonymous Kudos to that. Old AM stuff is like the soundtrack to alot of peoples struggles in activism. We tend to think of the bands as fellow comrades, so when they switch the message its like seeing one of your friends turn on the group. I know its "just" a band, but it holds meaning for alot of people. I guess the lesson here is to identify with the individual songs or albums and leave the musicians out of it.