Adam Pfahler resurfaces in A Black Light

Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by aubin on Monday, September 29, 2008 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

Former Jawbreaker and J Church drummer Adam Pfahler has resurfaced with another new project, this one is San Francisco-based three piece, A Black Light.

In early October, Adam, along with bandmates Chris Darosa and Shawn Biggs, will be heading into the studio to record an EP. Biggs spent several years at Fat Wreck Chords Motor Studios assisting on records by The Real Mckenzies, Lagwagon, NOFX, No Use For a Name and will be engineering and producing the record in his SF studio. The band plans on self releasing the record in late January.

Two demos can be found on the band's myspace page.

Bands in this story

Jawbreaker

J Church

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freesandwich (September 29, 2008)

lol @ the headline

Scarysmurf (September 29, 2008)

Gaslight tattoo or laptop?
It's a tough decision.
I would get the Gaslight tattoo in a heartbeat, but I don't want to end up like all the Trio fans.

eazyd2 (September 29, 2008)

at least trio fans can say the band has afew good albums before turning gay. if i were you id buy cocaine.

Scarysmurf (September 29, 2008)

like Clay Aiken gay?

Dante3000 (rich) (September 29, 2008)

He's gay?!
-Dante

MrSnrub (September 29, 2008)

What would your gaslight tattoo look like?

Scarysmurf (September 29, 2008)

I was going to go with kinda a shipish them with some of lyrics of "I Could'a Been A Contender" in it. Not just a straight up tattoo that says gaslight anthem.

scientistrock (September 29, 2008)

be more specific. what kind of tattoo are we talking? Also, a laptop is much more useful, but, you may not REALLY need it.

allison_le_gnome (September 29, 2008)

Seriously? Assuming you mean the alternative is an actual laptop, not a tattoo of a laptop, that doesn't seem like a difficult decision. Getting a tattoo of any band still in existence is a very risky move.

Dante3000 (rich) (September 29, 2008)

You've obviously never seen my collection of wicked Damn Yankees tatts.
Shit's ill.
-Dante

HumanUnkind (September 29, 2008)

Wait til the next album? They haven't been around very long yet and yeah you don't wanna have this tattoo of a band that sort of suck in the future when you may not like them?)

I sort of only have tattoos of bands that are defunct (latterman, gatsbys american dream) other than my against me one. That said I'm getting PiB ink on Friday. That also said, if you love them now, the tattoo will just mean you love them now, regardless of whether they turn shit or not.

MattRamone (September 29, 2008)

Laptop.

Give Gaslight a few more albums before you get permanent arm paint.

el_matt (September 29, 2008)

Would temporary face paint of Gaslight be acceptable then?

kraze (September 29, 2008)

You're either talking about a a huge backpiece or a shitty laptop.

If you're buying a laptop in that price range you're going to regret it faster than than the gaslight tattoo.

eazyd2 (September 29, 2008)

smart

Scruffy (September 29, 2008)

Buy the laptop, for heaven's sake. Gaslight put out their first album under two years ago, and they're terribly fashionably popular right now.. You DO NOT know yet whether you will love them that passionately even a year from now. Getting that tattoo would be just as dumb as marrying a girl after dating for a month. For all you know, it'll work out, but you've got the rest of your life. Wait until you're damn sure.

Scarysmurf (September 29, 2008)

Hey, you must be in love and squalor. Did you play at the CIS show?
You were slated to but I either showed up late or something.

Scruffy (September 29, 2008)

Naw, we were on the American Steel show a week later. See you at Riot Fest, though!

I know how you feel about the tattoo, as it's very tempting to me to get a Loved Ones tattoo. But seriously, wait (coming from a guy with nine band tattoos).

MattRamone (September 29, 2008)

Run a video store in SF.

Sell porn to the punx.

HumanUnkind (September 29, 2008)

straight-edge hardcore?

MattRamone (September 29, 2008)

I have a picture somewhere of some girl with sXe marking giving a blowjob with the caption "ur doin it rong"

Instead here's this, which makes me laugh and I don't even know why:

http://www.gsdgsd.com/images/geer.jpg

HumanUnkind (September 29, 2008)

sheer imagist poetry that is. haha

blue_drink (September 29, 2008)

This isn't a Jawbreaker reunion. :(

scientistrock (September 29, 2008)

Jawbreaker was a pretty good band.

MattRamone (September 29, 2008)

They're no AFI, though.

scientistrock (September 29, 2008)

who are themselves no metrostation.

MattRamone (September 29, 2008)

Let me tell you about a little band called N SYNC.

lostandclowned (September 29, 2008)

bumper sticker: I liked N'SYNC when they were underground.
true story.

Dante3000 (rich) (September 29, 2008)

Who is though? You know, outside of Blaq Audio.
-Dante

MattRamone (September 29, 2008)

Or old Tiger Army.

LookBackAndLaugh (September 29, 2008)

or Redemption 87

deadXlast (September 29, 2008)

Easily one of the (if not THE) greatest synth-pop all-girl bands ever.

Grantino (September 29, 2008)

i like it.

canaandrumzz (September 29, 2008)

I'm interested in this. Too bad I can't check this at work.

baldsteve (September 29, 2008)

I've got a ton of stuff that Adam has drummed on. I support this guy in everything. The Moons were slow but decent, he took over drums FROM blake on that one. Whysall Lane was too much like Versus (for obvious reasons).

I'll take new stuff from him or blake, I don't want to see a Jawbreaker reunion (although I'd go if it showed up).

Killtaker (September 29, 2008)

Does anyone think Blake will ever record music again?

As much as I love Jawbreaker and the first Jets to Brazil record (Four Cornered Night and Perfecting Loneliness not so much) I would be interested in hearing what he would do now.

DrGunn (September 29, 2008)

well just get accepted to hunter (how hard could it be?), take his creative writing class, and ask him!

Scruffy (September 29, 2008)

Jets only got better as they went along. ORD is good, but there is waaaaay too much effects pedal (it's worse than REM's Monster) and the lyrics to most of the spongs are too abstract for their own good. Their later stuff really showcased the entire band's talents and created something truly amazing and completely separate from Jawbreaker's sound, as well.

baldsteve (September 29, 2008)

I totally disagree. Jets towards the end was an amalgamation of Randy Newman and The Beatles later material. That is NOT good in my book.

There were a few good songs on the last one, it just got to adult contemporary on me.

Scruffy (September 29, 2008)

I view it as nods to early nineties indie-rock, The Who and Elton John (when he was good).

Also, the Beatles later material was their best stuff. Let It Be is an awesome record.

DrGunn (September 29, 2008)

i think let it be is a lot weaker than the five (six if you count magical mystery tour, which is really a compilation) preceeding it. it wasn't finished and i think it sounds like it.

anyways, i think ORD is almost unquestionably blake's lyrical masterpiece. and musically i think it beats FCN and PL as well.

christian (September 29, 2008)

Orange Rhyming Dictionary and Perfecting Loneliness are a taste of heaven.

Four Cornered Night...not so much.

sXenester (September 29, 2008)

fans of Black Light Burns are not stoked.

xote (September 29, 2008)

Well considering how nobody wants to talk about this story I will. I normally don't really like this kind of stuff... I grew out of it sometime during high school I guess. but stuff is actually alright. For some reason I can listen to it.

xote (September 29, 2008)

God damnit... I was reading that stupid gaslight tatoo post and that the whole thread was about that.

martinNZ09 (September 29, 2008)

I like it

InaGreendase (brian) (September 29, 2008)

First song sounds like Gods Reflex. Not bad.

smash_it_up (September 30, 2008)

this is good.