So, this is Noise Rock.

[musicbassman]

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.

 

[Guest]

Well, if nothing else theyre getting a bit of practice.

[MacDaddy]

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

At least the drummer was right about something 'this one always sounds like total sh!t'.

[Dad3353]

Tripe. 

 

Edit : Upon reflection, I'll revise that...

 

Utter tripe. 

Edited November 30, 2020 by Dad3353

[leftybassman392]

Can I just confirm: the people in the audience, they've paid real money to be there... is that right?

[upside downer]

Gotta love a bit of modern jazz. Or not.

[Nail Soup]

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).

 

 

[dave_bass5]

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?

[ahpook]

I enjoyed it - some of that was really good.

 

Edited November 30, 2020 by ahpook

[hooky_lowdown]

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.

[Nail Soup]

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?

[Nail Soup]

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.

[Maude]

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. 

[TheGreek]

From this I can see why many parents discourage their children from pursuing a career in the Music Industry....

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 10, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[StickyDBRmf]

Well that was something.

[EJWW]

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. 😥

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

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 😂

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 10, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[Maude]

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. 

🤣

[Bolo]

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!

[bobbass4k]

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.

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 10, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Am I imagining things, or does a member of the audience call out a request for Wonderwall at 1:27 in the video?