musicbassman 875 Posted November 30, 2020 Someone sent me this link. This genre is described as 'Noise Rock' I'm not going to pass comment, you might like it, you might not, but it's certainly interesting. Band are Lightning Bolt, it's bass and drums only, the 'music' starts around 3.00... err - ish The audience clearly love it, but I think the disco pills might help. Not sure whether the two girls in red shorts launching themselves into the audience are part of the band or not, but, hey, whatever. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bassfinger 1,682 Posted November 30, 2020 Well, if nothing else theyre getting a bit of practice. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hiram.k.hackenbacker 3,455 Posted November 30, 2020 At least the drummer was right about something 'this one always sounds like total sh!t'. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dad3353 7,520 Posted November 30, 2020 (edited) Tripe. Edit : Upon reflection, I'll revise that... Utter tripe. Edited November 30, 2020 by Dad3353 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leftybassman392 3,948 Posted November 30, 2020 Can I just confirm: the people in the audience, they've paid real money to be there... is that right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
upside downer 780 Posted November 30, 2020 Gotta love a bit of modern jazz. Or not. 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nail Soup 973 Posted November 30, 2020 I like Lightening Bolt, own one album by them and would love to see them live. Apparently they don't play on stage, but on the floor in the middle of the audience…. in this case surrounded by a barrier. Apparently, for extra non-conformity they sometimes start their set within a few seconds of the support band finishing. The line up is one guy on drums/vocals (vocals are into an old fashioned telephone stuck to mask which he wears) and one guy on Bass (G string replaced by a banjo string). 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dave_bass5 2,576 Posted November 30, 2020 9 minutes ago, Nail Soup said: The line up is one guy on drums/vocals (vocals are into an old fashioned telephone stuck to mask which he wears) and one guy on Bass (G string replaced by a banjo string). How does he get the Banjo string to stay on the bass? Aren’t Banjos a lot shorter than a bass? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ahpook 2,073 Posted November 30, 2020 (edited) I enjoyed it - some of that was really good. Edited November 30, 2020 by ahpook Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hooky_lowdown 848 Posted November 30, 2020 I like Lightening Bolt also. Around the same kinda time as DFA1979, believe they later inspired drum and bass bands including The Carps, which are a lot more poppy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nail Soup 973 Posted November 30, 2020 44 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said: How does he get the Banjo string to stay on the bass? Aren’t Banjos a lot shorter than a bass? Good question..... I’m guessing there is some kind of long scale banjo and he adds a bit more length beyond the nut or something? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nail Soup 973 Posted November 30, 2020 2 hours ago, musicbassman said: Not sure whether the two girls in red shorts launching themselves into the audience are part of the band or not, but, hey, whatever. Based on my previous comments I think we can assume that LB don't believe in the standard binary division of band/audience. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maude 5,207 Posted November 30, 2020 How dare those pesky youngsters go around enjoying music that the older generation don't understand. It wasn't like it in my day.................. oh, hang on. 5 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheGreek 5,522 Posted November 30, 2020 From this I can see why many parents discourage their children from pursuing a career in the Music Industry.... 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jus Lukin 2,627 Posted November 30, 2020 (edited) Is that what the youth are calling noise these days? Bloody kids. Edited November 30, 2020 by Jus Lukin 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StickyDBRmf 166 Posted November 30, 2020 Well that was something. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EJWW 49 Posted November 30, 2020 I like this. I also like Death From Above 1979. Love the rawness of the sound and the raucus reaction of the crowd. Love live music. 😥 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hiram.k.hackenbacker 3,455 Posted November 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Jus Lukin said: Is that what the youth are calling noise these days? Bloody kids. I had never heard of them. I must say their Wiki page makes entertaining reading 😂 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jus Lukin 2,627 Posted November 30, 2020 4 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said: I had never heard of them. I must say their Wiki page makes entertaining reading 😂 😄 I think the music is the least unsettling thing about them! 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maude 5,207 Posted November 30, 2020 3 minutes ago, Jus Lukin said: 😄 I think the music is the least unsettling thing about them! Well, there's the rub, a thousand of them. 🤣 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bolo 790 Posted November 30, 2020 5 hours ago, musicbassman said: Someone sent me this link. This genre is described as 'Noise Rock' I'm not going to pass comment, you might like it, you might not, but it's certainly interesting. Band are Lightning Bolt, it's bass and drums only, the 'music' starts around 3.00... err - ish The audience clearly love it, but I think the disco pills might help. Not sure whether the two girls in red shorts launching themselves into the audience are part of the band or not, but, hey, whatever. Good energy, great crowd involvement. Seen (and played) worse! 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobbass4k 199 Posted November 30, 2020 Seen lightning bolt live three times in my life, each one louder than the last. Noise rock is about as useful a term as rock itself - it´s applied so liberally to bands that are so different to each other that it doesn´t hold much weight as a genre. Sonic youth, shellac, the jesus lizard, there´s far more digestable entries in the canon, and then something like the locust, which makes lighting bolt look like baby shark... Personally I´ve always thought of lightning bolt as a really really loud jazz band that get stuck in a 30 second time loop. 3 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jus Lukin 2,627 Posted November 30, 2020 17 minutes ago, Maude said: Well, there's the rub, a thousand of them. 🤣 😆 A thousand? What's wrong with twenty-one and done?! No mention of vacuum cleaners or bodily movements in the wiki- they were fascinating in their own way... and horrifying. Mainly horrifying! 😄 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jean-Luc Pickguard 1,178 Posted November 30, 2020 Am I imagining things, or does a member of the audience call out a request for Wonderwall at 1:27 in the video? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites