― 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
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I was speaking more of... every other gig!
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:33 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Friday, 19 May 2006 07:23 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Friday, 19 May 2006 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Friday, 19 May 2006 08:58 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link
turns out they're playing four times at atp...
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:33 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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
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 (eight years ago) link
their best record imo
― nostormo, Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:16 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
hell yes
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, it is a thing of beauty indeed.
― grandavis, Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
can't wait to see them in May
― the late great, Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
saw them opening for Boredoms once. Orgasm.
― nostormo, Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:38 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
http://laserbeast.com/photos/052106/moore-15.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:06 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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
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