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― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimnaseum doof-doof, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
completely blows it for me.
also, what does OTM mean
― jonathon, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Hi fandango! Hope you enjoyed it too. I got talking to some mates I haven't seen for ages; will give you a shout some time if you fancy some beers.
Seriously guys, it was wasome.
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm still not fussed enough to pick up their records personally but they definitely know how to rock, check them out in your town! etcetera.
email (my ilx thing works) sometime yeah. Nice to meet you, didn't mean to slip off without saying bye or anything.
― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
The drummer's mask was scarily Hulk Hogan.
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― astronautagogo (astronautagogo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Thursday, 18 May 2006 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link
The Google bar jobbie works for me.
This is why I sometimes question the no new thread shoutdowns, we've bounced along nicely here tippy toeing across a couple of useful topics and brought all manner of happiness and knowledge to all.
Keep tapping them keys.
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 18 May 2006 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Thursday, 18 May 2006 09:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Glad someone else asked this question, not sure about the answer though!
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Here goes...
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
The Magik Markers played about 40 minutes of almost constant noise, no pauses whatsoever. Then just "Thanks, we're the Magik Markers, Lightning Bolt is next". That 40 minutes seemed to be half the time though.
Lightning Bolt were fucking amazing. First time I've seen them, I have to say they weren't _quite_ as loud as I thought they might be, although of course they were fucking loud. Not Dinosaur Jr/MBV/Motorhead loud though. The drummer moved his whole drum kit out into the middle of the audience towards the end of their set! The noise that they get out of a bass guitar is incredible.
Woo! Now I'm all hyper and it's midnight and I have to go to stupid work tomorrow. Bugger.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 18 May 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
"UP AGAINST THE WALL!" He's a bossy bastard isn't he? Lost a good half stone there in sweat. I loved the dragging of drum kit into the audience. He's amazing to watch, staring right into peoples faces whilst pummeling the kit, I guess that's where the energy comes from.
My only complaint is people standing next to you stock still in a mosh pit trying to get pictures on their stupid phones.
YOU DO NOT STAND STILL IN A MOSH PIT!
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 18 May 2006 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
No, you hover around the corners so you don't have limbs bothering you. (I have used this tactic successfully for years.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link
I was speaking more of... every other gig!
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link
i managed to be in the front row, but only because i stood there for an hour and a half waiting. they're the only band i've ever been prepared to do that with (mind you, i think they're the only band who you can't see if you're not in the front few rows).
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 19 May 2006 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Friday, 19 May 2006 07:23 (eighteen years ago) link
A youngster who was attempting edge himself in front of me along with side glances to ensure I wasn't about to thump him one, but to whom I returned the physical nudging with just the correct amount of dominant pressure in return, finally just turned to me and asked very politely if it was okay if he stood in front of me? I couldn't resist his charm and naviety and gave into him completely with "Yeah, no problem."
I agree this wus a pussy pit compared to some.
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Friday, 19 May 2006 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Friday, 19 May 2006 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Friday, 19 May 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link
My left ear is ringing.
Should I go see Extreme Noise Terror at the Garage June 4th? I guess not since I start my new job on the 5th...
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
turns out they're playing four times at atp...
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a175/jimmygates/P1010065.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a175/jimmygates/P1010057.jpg
― boney (b0n3y), Sunday, 21 May 2006 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― chakra khan chakra khan (sanskrit), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
But what of the Greek myths, of the Greek god Zeus and of the popular image of Zeus - a Greek God - throwing down lightning bolts to kill people and knock down trees. Where did he find the time? And what of lightning being made of fire? In this workaday world in the era of the founding father Benjamin Franklin we have no time nor patience for such concerns. These are for the third world and schizophrenics.
Some people do not understand that lightning is destructive. They ignore the wisdom of their elders and of the founding father Benjamin Franklin. They think lightning is a lie perpetrated by people with a vested interest. At their own peril!!! Lightning kills people and knocks down trees!!! It a power of destruction exercised by the Greek god Zeus, the mightiest of Greek gods!! But they do it: they ignore such wisdom and taunt the powerful exercise of destruction and they worship their idle gods and stand near trees. At their own peril!! Lightning has the killing power to kill people and the destructive power to knock down trees! When you stand near trees, they will be knocked down by lightning and you will be killed by lightning! There is no escape. Lightning will knock down the tree and knock down your soul. Trees are tall.
Many things are tall. Many things attract lightning. But do the two correlate? A recent study says yes. It says that being tall and attracting lightning do correlate. That means that being tall corellates with being struck by lightning. You die when you are struck by lightning, and your tree is knocked down.
Some people try to measure lightning, they take measurements of it. They use balloons and rockets and their imagination and determination and research money and they put it all in the mixing bowl and they mix in storms - storms with lightning - and so they mix in the lightning and then they get the product if they're lucky of measurements about lightning from the storm? What kind of measurements? We may never know...
Lightning!!!Jeremy LavinePeriod 3
― The PappaWheelie Story: Half Brain, Half Soul, All Mouth (on sale now) (PappaWhe, Friday, 6 October 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 7 October 2006 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 7 October 2006 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 7 October 2006 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Sunday, 8 October 2006 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Lightning Bolt gigs are too intense for me. Saw them in London in December. Made me feel physically sick. I was about 30cm away from them tbh.
― Dwight Yorke, Sunday, 21 March 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/08/390440887/first-listen-lightning-bolt-fantasy-empire
.........WOW
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Monday, 9 March 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link
damn it, forgot about this and it sold out
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 06:50 (nine years ago) link
http://www.catchthewaveministries.com/photogallery/Jacob
― j., Friday, 27 November 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
i was just listening to this album again yesterday. it's very very good
― dynamicinterface, Saturday, 28 November 2015 03:31 (eight years ago) link
solo album from Brian Gibson! http://thrilljockey.com/products/thumper-thrill-435
Brian Gibson, bassist for the ballistic duo Lightning Bolt, makes his solo debut on Thumper, approaching the rhythmic violence his music is known for with a propensity for tense, electronic thrusts, pulsing synth swells, and symphonic bursts. Drawing from music originally created for the hit video game of the same name that Gibson created the art and music for, the album takes the listener on a trek through trans-dimensional journey where the brutality of the music’s momentum is equally entrancing. Despite the presence of lush, even soothing tones, the tensions that blossom from each track overwhelm the senses to invigorating effect.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 23 February 2017 19:48 (seven years ago) link
You shouldn't put too much stock into what breathless press releases say but that makes it sound amazing. Hope it's good.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 23 February 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
cmon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iLryS2bVVU
this is a categorical banger.
― ogmor, Monday, 23 September 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
Oh hell yeah, look forward to checking this! Seems like a shout out to old label / tour mates USAisaMonster also. Maybe they will get convinced to make another record as well ....
― grandavis, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
can't get over that wailing. 2019 is ripe for lightning bolt
― ogmor, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
Fantasy Empire was so good ... their best ever, imo, though I imagine that's not the consensus. Anyway, looking forward to this.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
I'm not quite sure I'd go as far as best ever, but it was absolutely fantastic and just as good as the high points of the initial run. Really looking forward to this new one.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
Sounds like Lightning...Blues? Definitely one of the most straightforwardly riffy things I've heard them do.
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
recent Brooklyn show was a real ripper, despite kinda bougie warehouse venue space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Pbm9cG1L4
― fits, Thursday, 26 September 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
ugh sorry for bad formatting
Got the new album in the mail, haven't listened yet. Yes?
― flappy bird, Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
it slays, maybe my favorite one yet on contact, maximum riffage
― Simon H., Friday, 11 October 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
one of the great american rock bands
― na (NA), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
Can't believe these dudes have been this intense for 25 years
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Friday, 11 October 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
they're playing Desert Daze pretty late on Sunday so might hafta miss em
― DT, Friday, 11 October 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
yeah I listened it's awesome
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
They were *so* good last night and the crowd had so much wild energy. No idea where Chippendale gets his stamina from.
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
I’ll never get to watch Lightning Bolt play live :(— BRIAN AXL-SLASHINGDALE (@CHIRPENDALE) December 6, 2019
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 6 December 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
lol
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
Dude is hilarious; at one point he took out his phone and took a selfie with the crowd in the background and was like "yeah, that's a good one!" When they came out for the encore he started talking about eating bananas and the crowd ended up chanting "POTASSI-UM! "POTASSI-UM!"
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
this might be that selfie: https://www.instagram.com/p/B5uBIU6JwU-/?igshid=1k6hovidp15ln
― alpine static, Friday, 6 December 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
Listening to SONIC CITADEL finally and zomg why did I stop following these guys?
― Camina Burana Drummer (Leee), Thursday, 9 January 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
chippendale has a new band with ty segall
― na (NA), Thursday, 9 January 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
I see people are talking about the Philly date.I reviewed it and I hope I did the band justice.
https://newnoisemagazine.com/show-review-lightning-bolt-union-transfer-philadelphia-pa/
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 9 January 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link