Lightning Bolt

Glad someone else asked this question, not sure about the answer though!

Here goes...

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.

"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!

No, you hover around the corners so you don't have limbs bothering you. (I have used this tactic successfully for years.)

I was speaking more of... every other gig!

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

Can't believe these dudes have been this intense for 25 years

they're playing Desert Daze pretty late on Sunday so might hafta miss em

yeah I listened it's awesome

They were *so* good last night and the crowd had so much wild energy. No idea where Chippendale gets his stamina from.

I’ll never get to watch Lightning Bolt play live :(

— BRIAN AXL-SLASHINGDALE (@CHIRPENDALE) December 6, 2019

lol

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!"

this might be that selfie: https://www.instagram.com/p/B5uBIU6JwU-/?igshid=1k6hovidp15ln

Listening to SONIC CITADEL finally and zomg why did I stop following these guys?

chippendale has a new band with ty segall

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/