― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Must try harder.
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shaun Leacy (cassettessac), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
They have a unique way of "taking the stage" so don't blow off the band playing before them.
― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link
-- tolstoy (giveitupso...), May 17th, 2006.
This is totally OTM.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― late to the bloom to the er (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.tetsuyama.com/images/clippy.jpg
― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
That has to be added in your personal settings, it doesn't show up by default.
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
-- search the archives ;)-- start a new thread :-)-- troll the board *bemused*
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimnaseum doof-doof, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
completely blows it for me.
also, what does OTM mean
― jonathon, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:27 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
The drummer's mask was scarily Hulk Hogan.
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― astronautagogo (astronautagogo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Thursday, 18 May 2006 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:15 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 18 May 2006 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Thursday, 18 May 2006 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Glad someone else asked this question, not sure about the answer though!
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Here goes...
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:58 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 18 May 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:20 (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
Yeah the album fuckin' RULES.
― alpine static, Monday, 9 March 2015 04:49 (nine years ago) link
Lightning!!!
― j., Monday, 9 March 2015 05:00 (nine years ago) link
Absolutely fantastic record. Synthesizes so much of what made Lightning Bolt and the whole Load Records/Fort Thunder scene great in the first place.
Now...record another Wizardzz LP!
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
What, no love for Mindflayer?
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
fresh sounds. can't wait to see them
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
gonna listen to this and 'close to the edge' today, they are spirit-brohters
― j., Tuesday, 10 March 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Oh, that's interesting. A guy I knew from grad school posted Fragile on his FB yesterday, saying that he put it on after he tired of this album.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
man this kicks off with a bang
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
their best record imo
― nostormo, Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:16 (nine years ago) link
so excited to see them next week... only chance i ever got was at p4k fest and it was in the middle of the day and they were playing on a huge stage and it was kinda weird for them
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link
Lightning Bolt live is one of those experiences that kinda transcends (in the right room) whatever preconceptions you might have of what it is gonna be like. They just steamroll reality right the fuck out of the way and all that is left is the totality of Lightning Bolt. Well, LB and all the spasming humans unable to help themselves from moving along to the music but not quite being able to figure out how to do so.
― grandavis, Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
hell yes
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it is a thing of beauty indeed.
― grandavis, Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
can't wait to see them in May
― the late great, Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
saw them opening for Boredoms once. Orgasm.
― nostormo, Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
I saw RUINS at the same club a while ago... interested to see how LB stacks up
― the late great, Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
Most recently I saw them play a Mexican restaurant in Santa Fe. Towards the end of the set me and my wife left and went across the street to relax for a minute (it was crushingly sweaty/crowded) and it was still too loud to talk to face to face.
They're playing Neumos in Seattle, which I am not too excited about- every loud show I've seen there lately is just so blown out sounding.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
http://laserbeast.com/photos/052106/moore-15.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
ruins were so loud that it affected my vision at one point, expect the same from LB
― the late great, Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
xp hey i was probably there coz that's someone i used to see at gigs in glasgow all the time. if i had been photographed i'd probably have looked equally dour, genetics innit
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
Arms in air guy looks like ILXor onimo, p sure it isn't.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Friday, 17 April 2015 08:41 (nine years ago) link
damn it, forgot about this and it sold out
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 06:50 (eight 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