Lightning Bolt

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).

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.

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...

turns out they're playing four times at atp...

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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 Lavine
Period 3

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.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/08/390440887/first-listen-lightning-bolt-fantasy-empire

.........WOW

Yeah the album fuckin' RULES.

Lightning!!!

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!

What, no love for Mindflayer?

fresh sounds. can't wait to see them

gonna listen to this and 'close to the edge' today, they are spirit-brohters

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.

man this kicks off with a bang

their best record imo

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

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.

hell yes

Yeah, it is a thing of beauty indeed.

can't wait to see them in May

saw them opening for Boredoms once. Orgasm.

I saw RUINS at the same club a while ago... interested to see how LB stacks up

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.

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ruins were so loud that it affected my vision at one point, expect the same from LB

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

Arms in air guy looks like ILXor onimo, p sure it isn't.

damn it, forgot about this and it sold out

http://www.catchthewaveministries.com/photogallery/Jacob

i was just listening to this album again yesterday. it's very very good

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.

You shouldn't put too much stock into what breathless press releases say but that makes it sound amazing. Hope it's good.

cmon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iLryS2bVVU

this is a categorical banger.

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 ....

can't get over that wailing. 2019 is ripe for lightning bolt

Fantasy Empire was so good ... their best ever, imo, though I imagine that's not the consensus. Anyway, looking forward to this.

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.

Sounds like Lightning...Blues? Definitely one of the most straightforwardly riffy things I've heard them do.

recent Brooklyn show was a real ripper, despite kinda bougie warehouse venue space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Pbm9cG1L4