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BRIAN CHIPPENDALE // LIGHTNING BOLT // BLACK PUS // SHABBY DRAWINGS // DRUM DESTRUCTION
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I started drumming in 1989(or 88?). My best friend & I had no musical skills, we both wanted to sing in our new band but I picked the short straw & lost. So I had to try to drum. Still trying! winning, losing, they’re all just doors you pass through, then you take it from there
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I turned 50 yesterday. WTF how did this happen
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Steve Albini and I have the same birthday. Every year he tweeted me a happy birthday . It floored me he would even do that, dude is a legend
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I met Steve Albini probably 15 years ago in the UK at ATP, a big festival with a ton of sick bands. An effect pedal of ours had broken and Steve appeared at our door with a little tool kit, announced he was here to fix the pedal and quickly, successfully, went to work
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It’s wild to see Steve Albini trending on Twitter. It’s people like him who should be trending here, all the time. Real humans with real spines
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on our first Lightning Bolt US tour in 1997 we played a little wooden stage outside a Church’s Chicken in Kerrville Texas. Two kids showed up and an old guy walked out of the woods and said “I haven’t seen playing like that since Jimi Hendrix”. Then he walked back into the woods
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Can we get Lightning Bolt on this?
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Blink 182 is replacing Frank Ocean at Coachella? Come on folks, get real. Lightning Bolt is primed and ready
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Lightning Bolt 25 years ago. Where’s that album we recorded as a trio?
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Fugazi ethics made it so Lightning Bolt didn’t have any tshirts to sell for the first 20 years
And now it’s Fugazis fault that I can’t stop making tshirts
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did a celebratory drum jam for my second dose and now I’m convinced I just sweated the vaccine out
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Lightning Bolt shows are never easy . if it starts feeling easy I push harder, make it more difficult , louder, faster, more draining. The point is to give everything every time. Music is the delivery system, but the goal is both self discovery and self annihilation
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Deerhoof did a bunch of records under the band name “Lightning Bolt”, any of these are the best place to start they really put the regular DH albums to shame
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I’ve been the lone masked person in a crowd for years , it just means you rock harder than them
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here’s two minutes cut out of the middle of a raggedy Nothing Compares 2 U take . Nothing compares to the power of Sinéad, I’m just riffing on the emotional energy of it . Full 8 messy minutes are up on YouTube and insta. ❤️Rest in a well earned peace Sinéad O’Conner
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for the Lightning Bolt fans this is the building we recorded all of Hypermagic Mountain and Earthly Delights in plus the Oblivion Hunter home recordings, that top floor was ours, band zone was in the back. Fire Marshall finally kicked me out in 2016
“This truly is a shining moment for all of us in Rhode Island” says City Council President John Igliozzi at the
#ParagonMill
groundbreaking
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getting shit rolling at home again after a summer of concerts and covid
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can people stop calling us a math rock band we’ve got less math than Bob Dylan for Christ’s sake what the fuck we’re a goddamn gym rock band or a rock climbing band, math rock my ass you fucking dumbasses
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The Misfits had more of a cultural impact through that tshirt than they ever did with their music
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fucking hell Gabe Serbian from The Locust has passed. We toured with them years ago and Gabe was a fucking beast. Dude could make a blast beat swing while hitting as hard as a truck. Unique. One of the best I’ve ever scene & a good guy. Terrible news. ❤️ to his friends & family
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when you find a sick oscillator tone you gotta let the world know
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used to be you'd be at some shitty hardcore show and maybe run into a bunch of idiot Neo Nazis but now they just live in your pocket
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I’ve read a couple reviews of our new record that suggest this is Lightning Bolts last record. I have no idea why. Guys, I had a kid, I didn’t die. My kid showed up 3 years ago, and we still made a record. We’re not done shredding your reality yet , not even close
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This fest in Germany wants us to sign a form saying if we break 99 decibels we’ll pay a €10000 fine. My drums with no amplification are 105. Maybe it’s a movie night
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if Trump had fought Covid as hard as he’s fighting his election loss we’d all be at Lollapalooza watching Mr Bungle by now
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I had an emotionally rough week but goddamn drumming saves me every time; lifts me up, I’m so fucking lucky I stumbled into it
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about to play our first Lightning Bolt show in a 2+ years. the goal is merely death and rebirth and the multiple levels of ecstasy and entropy in between those two points.
…or really the goal is just to not vomit in my mask
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we played our first show in December 1994. Its 2019. LIGHTNING BOLTS BEEN JAMMING FOR FUCKING 25 YEARS. Heading into the studio tomorrow
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I’ll never get to watch Lightning Bolt play live :(
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last jam before we pile this shit into the van
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LIGHTNING BOLT TIME. Dec 7-12/// wed the 7th Carrboro Cats Cradle, 8th Black Cat DC, 9th Friday Baltimore Ottobar, 10th Philly 4333 collective, Sun 11th Brooklyn Monarch, monday 12th boston Royale and The Met Providence on Wednesday the 14th!
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“There’s one kid with a big thing on his head and he wouldn’t stop drumming” — hahaha yup. And he wouldn’t stop drumming for thirty more years you fuckers hahaha . One year later Lightning Bolt is born
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I figured it out. When we play on the floor we’re Lightning Bolt but when we play on stage we’re a Lightning Bolt cover band
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BG came over the other day to survey the scene for a return to jamming , our first reunion after a 16 month pandemic break , and I had to break it to him that I’d rented out his Lightning Bolt bass rig real estate to LEGOCITY
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been listening to a lot of Lightning Bolt lately . some of its better than I remember
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By the end of tonight’s Lightning bolt show I got to the next level . I pushed as hard as I possibly could , and I can push hard. Portals were opened . I’m happy about that
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feel like I haven’t gotten shit done lately but I have managed to get some drumming in on the regular
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I occasionally get the “why do you hit so hard” question in relation to drumming and broken drumsticks and to that I say why love so hard or cry so hard or run so hard, music is important to me but drumming is a dance and I dance like I mean it
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I wonder if the AC/DC dudes were ever like, damn I wish our drummer could play one other beat
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To all the “fans” who stole my sticks off the stage at
@whelanslive
in Dublin last night a special FUCK YOU. you dumbass fucks I use those every night, I NEED those every night, I’m working and those are my TOOLS. i can’t even buy that kind of stick anymore.
#lightningbolt
#FANS
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I threw a 7 minute plus Pus Wandering up on my Instagram if you’re into that kinda thing , you can get there through my profile link if profile links are a thing you do
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Twenty years ago the Station fire killed 100 people in RI during a Great White show. maybe a decade ago Lightning Bolt was talking to a guy working at a drum shop in Minneapolis. When he heard where we were from he went quiet, then said, “I was Great White’s drummer that night”
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2016 Rolling Stones 91st best drummer in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE currently can’t find his keys and it’s kid pick up time
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Raise your hand if you think Repeater is the best Fugazi
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Lightning Bolt takes returns on all hearing damage such as tinnitus acquired during our shows; mail the ringing to us in an envelope(filter) to the pobox found in LB LPs
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music making for me used to be powered by magic, real magic. I would feel it, doors to unknown worlds just popping open all around. The making is still awesome now, but the real magic has become more illusive. I get glimpses through thick paned windows; it’s close, it’s close
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Here’s an NFT but it’s not an NFT so trade freely and widely
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the true impetus behind these drum videos is for me to pull out various old ill fitted shirts I find in neglected boxes in my studio and see if I’ll have an allergic reaction to them
There’s a 15 minute version of this on my YouTube —->
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just got a typed out letter from The Fed. They want to break up Lightning Bolt into two smaller entities, we’re just too powerful
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Lightning Bolt 2004 “Masters of Juggling” from the secret cassette archives
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Anyone who doesn’t realize Can built all their songs from jams and jamming doesn’t listen to Can
Last weekend I wound up in a fight because I called Can a jam band.
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prepping for LB tour trying to sweat off 2 years of covid calcification that aged me like 6 years on top of being a parent which has aged me like 10 years over the course of 5 years and what does that add up to I don’t even care which is why we’re definitely not a math rock band
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a touching article about Lightning Bolts album Ride the Skies which came out apparently 20 years ago this month via
@stereogum
both joyful and nostalgic to read. I miss being a new & mysterious band, those are two attributes that are hard to improve on
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you know what they say "an Apple a day keeps the doctor away" get the new
#BlackPus
/
@OozingWound
split LP on itunes!
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I get so many suggestions on Instagram of drummers doing some little trick for 20 seconds and I’m like, who the fuck cares what 20 second thing somebody memorized? am I supposed to be impressed by your 20 second commitment to rhythm? The only commitment I see is to the algorithm
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everybody hates the latest wave of gentrification, but never the wave they rode in on
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HANATARASH , MERZBOW, MASONNA for the pure shit and BOREDOMS, RUINS, YBO2, HIGH RISE jump to mind for the noise rock
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when Lightning Bolt played its first show in 1994 we were really looking at bands like the White Stripes and DFA1979 as big inspirational duos
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In light of this Jeff Bezos Amazon news, I’d like to take a minute to say that Lightning Bolt was also founded in 1994, and I too am so rich I can retire to sit on my mound of broken drumsticks, cracked CD cases and torn Tshirts; and dream of space
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fffuuck what a tour day. BG started puking at 3am and puked every two hours the whole drive from SF to LA. The 5 is the shittiest drive in the fucking country even without constant puke in a bush breaks . Dude puked all evening but managed to stand up and play the set. True champ
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“Band didn’t seem too fazed by it”. I’ve been doing my best to keep people safe at our shows for decades. I don’t see everything. Yes you screaming “your fans are assholes” did put me on high alert. But a couple bros being dicks in a room of over 500 isn’t “our fans are assholes”
the band didn’t even seem too fazed by it until i tapped
@CHIRPENDALE
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the secret to my unyielding success is supreme mixing capabilities and casual desperation
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I miss ATP festivals . They were the best chaos
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the only Rush I ever cared about was a power trio
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the energy it takes to travel for hours, carry in a half ton of equipment, play drums as mercilessly as I can for an hour, hug a room full of people and then load all the shit out is like a nap on a calm lake compared to the energy it takes to be a dad. that shit is relentless
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Re-upping to remelt my mind cause someone just pointed out this old tweet
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the slogan while on the Oops tour was “oops I went on this tour”. A lot of the characters had a few too many needs at times. Gabe though, he just came to fucking rock. In retrospect, like many intense tours, right when you get home you’re like; That fucking ruled. And it did
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Black Pus; giving you what you like least about Lightning Bolt in abundance since 2005
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“LEGO, as expensive a habit as cocaine , but sadly takes up more space”
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day one of a tour is weird. I can’t remember why we play the music we play. then we play & it’s purpose washes over me; it’s intense physicality. It’s cleansing power. & then I know why for the rest of the tour. But right before that first show, it’s like, wtf am i doing here
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our son Rohan was originally going to be named Pharaoh after Pharaoh Sanders, the musical titan . We ended up keeping the Raoh or Roh in the name and shuffling it around. Mr Sanders ascended to the next level today, I’m going to put on Thembi and let him wash over and through
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I lost all my money in crypto but not in the traditional sense I’ve just been wrapping my dollar bills around old bones and tossing them into a deep deep open grave in an ancient cemetery in hopes that the spirits will gift me magical powers. it’s not working
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Every day Twitter suggests posts about
@timheidecker
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when I was 19 I reached out to Joe Biden multiple times. Crickets. I sent hundreds of crickets, thousands of crickets, millions and billions and trillions of crickets. All I heard was silence. I can only assume he killed the crickets. They’re so loud, they’re just so loud
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This is one of the most nightmarish ads I have ever seen . Like, Sauron level evil shit. Bravo Apple, you’ve outdone yourselves
Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.
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fuck we need to get into the studio ASAP to cover this new hit Lightning Bolt song somebody randomly posted on our
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page . Yeah that’s WHAT WE GON, DO -
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as a fan of the Lynch Dune movie watching the new one is sort of like watching a cover band whose parents bought them really expensive gear
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Fairly certain I whacked this guy in the head with my drumstick at a Lightning Bolt show once
Any band with less than 3 members feels like a gimmick to me. Instead of having someone play 3 instruments at once, or worse yet running tracks, just get another person ...
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