Lightning Bolt - Ride The Sky @ Webster Hall 07/02/06

[tsktskboogie]

why are the pisser's not wathing coldplay instead?

[FawxTraught]

it's incoherent crap.

[sweetisperfection]

Oh my Ian curtis. This is shocking amazing

[DaddySledgehammer]

This is the video that made me realize how amazing Lightning Bolt are 3 years ago, when i was a skeptical 17 year old, a whole different world of music opened up for me after that. Cheers.

[sonofgong]

i was there! that was the show with boredoms - surreal experience

[Majorvw123]

3:05 to the end is amazing. What a great band.

[neuville9393]

love them

[cpkelley]

I remember seeing them play this in a tiny bar in Providence before the record came out and the plexi-glass in front was pounding and vibrating it was so loud.

[madmaxfalcigno]

Hartford

[madmaxfalcigno]

Is this at the Webster hall in Harford CT?

[layzsonsabitch]

so intense its scary

[RaulMonkey]

I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... But your kids are gonna love it.

[Ninjoel]

Mostly becuase it'll piss off their parents

[Jerdna3]

Fuck! Intense performance, like an explosion with laser beams firing out of it.

[plejady]

Fuck..fuck..this is music at it best...esencional..like blood in veins...amazing

makes live worth living...

[mannybeingdanny]

so amazing, so loud, so very loud and amazing

[killerdynam0]

fucking sick.

[alatron46]

YES

[hiljord]

it is noise.  beautiful noise.

[MrKimbolovesthelimbo]

Lightning Bolt Rulz so mutch!!!!

[hideousreplica]

I can't handle how heavy this is litening bolt kills my mind!!!! Final level!!!!

[hisironlung]

this is probably the best video on youtube

[onejivinturkey]

the drums sound like explosions in this video

[salsa3223]

for the retard who knows nothing about music, if you understood jazz and or time signatures you would realize how difficult playing or creating any music like lightning bolts truely is. dont be an idiot, study music before stating your idiotic opinions.

[MarvinMonroe]

some of the best video I've seen of Brian C from 2:50 on

talk about technique

[candlebar]

Isn't that what rock and roll is all about?

[555678ll]

yeah, but they should probably have at least some technique or ability to play the instruments...but I have to admit their drummer is pretty good.

[hohosantakiller]

What do you mean "at least some technique"?

1) Good music is not based upon great technique

2) They both have enough technique to do this!

3) If you see them live, you would shit your pants.

[shotgunjoe]

Brian Chippendale (drums) is actually one of the best drummers around today in my opinion, and Brian Gibson is an amazing bassist. Can you not see the technique here?

[shotgunjoe]

God you're ignorant.

[shotgunjoe]

I had never heard of Kai Hansen before this comment, so I decided to check out Ride The Sky. All I have to say is, LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLclassicrockLOLO­LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[trablusgarp]

i like lightning bolt i love lightning bolt but the sound quality of their videos on youtube really sucks. not for beginners

[ledbyevil12]

im not bothering anyone why are you saying things

[ledbyevil12]

i dont want trouble just being friend im not bothering you why so hostile and rude remarks

[floedeln]

I love this

[floedeln]

Great stuff!

[SJayms]

i need a moist Toilette

[squirellofdooom]

this is sex to my brain.

brilliant, just brilliant.

[Doosky7]

DUH?

[candlebar]

Need more groups like this-keeps the brain alive, not like the government sponsored zombiefying crap that passes for 'popular music'!!!

[SUBboy]

Best band ever. There is no debate. There is no argument.

Lightning Bolt is truly the most supreme of all music experiences.

[CodyRicheson]

I always like hearing music that takes the concept of music into dangerous territory. The extreme metal, punk, noise and industrial scenes have exercised this to the point of experimental, bizarre madness like this. Irittatingly unlistenable to some, musical euphoria for others.

[explosivose]

You are awesome.

not quite as awesome as this band though.

THUMBS UP

[fumeres]

i like this song

[pingvin1000]

sorry. Ride the SKY, of course.

[pingvin1000]

I really love LB! Nice music for old men like me ;-)

btw, norwegian jazz group The Thing does a cover of Ride the Skies on their album Action Jazz

[ledbyevil12]

i didnt know i sent them if im lb

[andydavis617]

Yeah dude no shit. LB circa "The Valley" that's noiz, and its raw and it kickzitt, and so does ride the skys

sorry you have no taste pussy biotch

[Something3k]

Everyone who says this is noise are people who listen to music to try and fit in with other people, if it isnt "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" then they dub it as noise.

Seriously, these stuff is not noise at all, compared to the first album by these guys, this song is like a metronome

[BizarroZarro]

the singing in the band is already rad enough- adding a new one would make them more pop. And they do not need a guitar because Brian Gibson has two freaking banjo strings on his base and that is all the high notes they nead. Rock on LB....

[radiohaud]

i have the most super-rare album by them that everyone wants but i won't share it pirate-ish. or . hm .

[unicronband]

Hella's got nothing on these guys.

[hisironlung]

it's 3am, i am fucking TIRED, and i cannot sit still to this. these guys rule harder than anyone ever.

[bushisatweeker]

they need to evolve more and add in some type of new singing. and a guitar player to compliment the distorted bass. like a very loud but smooth guitar. and by new singing i mean like a new type of singing to also compliment the band. than they would be good.

[PeterPhinney]

There is already singing. Sort of.  And don't mention adding a guitarist ever again.

[peteis2cool4u]

seriously man, shut the fuck up, go watch the power of salad and milkshakes before you start saying dumb stuff like this, or at least listen to their albums which are pretty much flawless

[radiohaud]

i hate you. no, seriously. i do.

[Puncturedlung]

Yeah some smooth guitar, and better hair styles and like lazers and big choruses! THen they'd be almost as cool as Aerosmith.

They had a guitarist once, he does Black Dice now.

They don't need anything.

[dqamurder]

yes that marshall cab is stacked sidways thats why the music sounds like that. if it was right side up it would sound like lionel richie's dancing on the ceiling.

[lackofcolor310]

hahaha my god i love you man.

[soccerdude98]

Is that marshall cab stacked sideways?

[Puncturedlung]

Gods.

[yamsuka]

my grandma called the beatles noise...

There just holding the mirror up to society maaan.

I dont really like them though.

[TURKEYP]

"thats me with the curly hair dancing do the robot and wagging my tail"

no one cares

[rebelk206]

this is not "random noise." It's all planned out, and actually, most noise artists compose everything beforehand unless they are improvising, which most of them aren't. So to say it is random noise is not only dumb, it's inaccurate.

[joeylusion]

shhhhhhhhhitt, no words for it. great band.

[pulmonq2]

"OMG that was some great random noise to a beat!" *crowd cheers*

[Shorteus]

You don't have to like the band if they don't appeal to you, but this is NOT random. Free Improve artists are random (look up Glenn Branca or Derek Bailey). They don't sell most of their work, though (you have to go to a show to see them).

[frenchymarcell]

Glenn Branca is a genius; No Wave composition at its finest. i'm going to see Lightning Bolt in action this evening. i cannot wait. the little Che Cafe will explode. oh yes, oh yay.

[nndmt]

I grew up in Providence and only got to see these guys ONCE before I moved to Hawaii. They are the twitching nerves in my rock sphincter. Brian is the most energetic drummer I have ever seen. They make me so sick of this pansy assed aloha shit. Uekeleles SUCK!!!

[Tufty]

Lightning Bolt are one of the most exciting, original and inspiring bands in this time of utter utter shit.

not everyone can get paid to be a wanker, flunky...

[bollox34]

There is no other feeling comes close to being down the front at a Lightning Bolt gig. I lost my phone while trying to take a picture of them during 'Assassins' at ATP 04 and some kind punter spent the rest of the weekend trying to find me to return it. The post above me dismissing LB's music as 'typical artschool kids' is wrong, they're rock 'n' roll personified, LB rock, believe

[pulmonq2]

Personally, I'd be ashamed to associate this with anything close to Rock music. More like... alternative experimental (read: noise).

[flunky444]

Getting paid to jerk off. Typical Art school kids. Impressive stamina from the drummer.

[buttguy]

wah wah wahhhh

[mothermoore]

Hey man all music is jerking off!

[pulmonq2]

too painful to watch.

[quincy211188]

so is ur mum

[captainlappin]

thats me with the curly hair dancing do the robot and wagging my tail what an amazing show... lightning bolt and boredoms a perfect concoction