Lightning Bolt S/T lim. 750 1st press hand screened fold out LOAD NM
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LB's first Lp in pretty much perfect condition. hand screened fold out paper cover is as good as you will ever find. I have had this since new, and these have become extremely difficult to find. A Def. must for east coast noise rock/art rock collectors. Vinyl is near mint. A crazy, mind-blowing record. EXTREMELY collectable relic at a very low starting Bid. Don't let it get away. You will have a hard time finding another.
From the net; Lightning Bolt's first album shows that the duo's frenetic broken-machine-played-by-live-instruments approach was not merely in place from the start but firing on all fours. It's not easy to describe the tracks -- it's one thing to say it's just bass; drums; and gargled, barely audible but still shouted vocals; quite another to describe the effect of the performances. At the band's fastest, like "Into the Valley" and the latter half of "Fleeing the Valley of Whirling Knives," everything sounds like the most tightly wound wire or rubber band getting even more and more tightly wound as it goes, to the point where all the activity almost becomes the most unlikely form of ambient music ever heard. The two don't simply repeat the same thing over and over again -- there's variety, especially in Gibson's bass work, keeping the same propulsion but subtly shifting notes as it goes, a sine wave of sound. Chippendale, meanwhile, is just amazing, just going all over the place on the drums but very clearly playing them instead of bashing as quickly as human musculature will allow. When the slower moments surface, such as the martial "Murk Hike" and the lowrider funk in hell that starts "Fleeing the Valley of Whirling Knives," the sheer volume level remains, which makes the inevitable explosions elsewhere all the more amazing. The various prog comparisons have a certain sense here, but there's no showoff wank, more an active and conscious harnessing of energy for very specific purposes. Classic moment -- whoever in the world is speaking at the live snippet starting "Caught Deep in the Zone" saying, in a most unusual accent, that the "alternative charts" are "just like the other side, only a bit stranger." Pretty much mint! Don't let it get away! US shipping and paypal only! Bid with confidence, I am a record fanatic and ebay junky. You are assured of fast service and quality records. You will not be disappointed! I will provide tracking and delivery conformation, Good luck! Many awesome records to come. Need to start thinning out the thousands of LP's that have built up. Well cared for, rare and classic records for good prices. Keep checking back. I always combine shipping! Will never jack up the price like many sellers seem to do! Thanks for looking, David
Full track listings and info can easily be found on-line. Many more garage, punk and oddball records coming soon. I have many, many boxes to go through
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