Lightning Bolt - The Metal East / Blow To The Head / USA Is A Psycho - Live at Le Guess Who? 

Listen to the band's full set here: www.leguesswho.nl/news/lightning-bolt-recordings

Waiting for a Tiny Desk concert with these guys

The human brain was not built to handle high quality lightning bolt footage.

What the hell this audio mix sounds so good that it actually feels wrong.

Brian Gibson looks like a divorced guy at his lowest but still manages to do the best for his kids.

change to 144p to get the true lightning bolt effect

This performance makes me want to run up the stairs with a bowl of hot water.

Okay but seriously whatever you paid the recording engineers, it wasn't enough. This sounds absolutely impeccable.

Rare footage of Lightning Bolt actually using the stage

I love the new direction the white stripes are going

I love how many people ask what mic brian chippendale uses for his voice, but he's said multiple times that it is just a telephone speaker wired into an instrument cable haha

Brian killed it in this one

I might share here the tale of woe of not seeing Lightning bolt on May 25th in Helsinki, Finland. I did not see Lightning Bolt on 25th of May in Helsinki, Finland because it got cancelled. Thank you for reading my tale of woe.

I have a fond memory of trying my best to hold this guy's cymbals in place whilst a horde of kids were smashin' me into his drum set.

The sound engineer (Marc Broer. Source: Disc.) Needs a raise, man. This is the best live audio of the band, to date

Posting the entire show will cure COVID-19.

I love this twenty one pilots's performance.

I’d love to see their acoustic set

When brian forgets the lyrics he can really just make shit up no one will realise

My fiance, who had no experience with metal or similar genres before me, heard Metal East and said "I like the bass player's bleedle-bloop noises"

0:11 The Metal East 6:51 Blow To The Head 11:11 USA Is A Psycho

Brian (the drummer) is like the captain of a ship talking you through a mission in a dystopian battle.

9:47 When you take the disc out of your PS1 while the game is still running

Brian Chippendale is 47 years old and can still do this wow

So basically, one guy plays a bass with guitar strings using lots of effects and another guy plays high speed drums while screaming mumbo jumbo wearing a mask... and it's fucking awesome!

This is what I imagine Left 4 Dead characters feel when they need to stab themselves with adrenaline shots just for a chance against the horde

6:33 I love how the drummer just casually asks him "ready?" Right there on stage before thumping away like crazy. There's something so pleasantly unprofessional about that. It's awesome

It’s incredible to me that a band with so much destructive chaotic fuck-it energy can also be so adventurous and fun and inspiring. It’s like they’re trying to tell people that there’s more, not in a good or bad way just MORE

Lightning bolt is my favorite weather titled band

They are aging like a fine wine. I'm aging like a wino and that's fine.

i desperately want to see a Lightning Bolt show but i’m convinced this will be the concert that actually blows my ear drums out

Makes me want to snort shards of glass.

Its like a heavier version of Primus, but the Drummer is the singer and the bass player is playing both the bass and the guitar parts. I love it.

It looks like a battle between a the Bass God and Drum God with the narrator in the background.

The speed of Brian Gibson's picking fingers is just crazy.

This guy is living proof that you can in fact, play intense drums and do vocals at the same time. Also, his sticking is impeccable, really good control.

hearing brian chippendale sample/loop his vocals literally never gets old for me

Chippendale: "I DON'T NEED A HI-HAT FOR MY DRUMS, I HAVE A CHAINSAW IN MY BACK POCKET AND I AM THE LONG LOST COUSIN OF LEATHERFACE FROM TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, AND ALSO A LUCHADOR WRESTLER"

2:40 never fails to break my spinal cord

them and hella live would be the best concert

So here's a little story: I work as a bike messenger in the city where this festival is, and I couldn't really afford a full ticket (just for seeing LB) but a friend of mine was going, so I asked him to call me when they were going to play, to see if he could usher me in somehow. They were scheduled for 2 to 3 AM. I set a couple of alarm clocks and went to bed, since I was exhausted from working all day (and in the evening as well). Unfortunately, I slept through all my alarms.. I did, apparently, answer his call but was sleep drunk and immediately fell asleep afterwards. The next morning I woke up, and realised I had missed Lightning Bolt.. OH well, at least I get to see (a part of) the performance on RU-vid now anyways, so thanks Le Guess Who! I hope to see them next time around.

Thanks...it's weird to see them on a stage. Always thought their preference to play on the floor was cool and well reasoned.

I saw them in a car-repair shop in Brooklyn a few albums ago. They passed out dozens of waterbottles into the crowd because we were going fucknuts crazy. I saw them again a few months later and it was outdoors in broad daylight in a vacant lot and I was sober but I felt like I had just taken everything. Best live act I've ever seen (along with Giraffes? Giraffes!)

I'm surprised no one's mentioned how chill the crowd is. People should be going nuts to this.

Tonight I discovered Lightning Bolt.....instant happiness!

Le Post The Whole Damn Show

Brian's telling everyone it's past their bedtime because he's a dad now lol

Marc Broer did such an amazing job with the mix. One day I hope to be able to record raw, nasty shit like this and make it sound just the way it should.

?! how ARE THEY STILL THIS FUCKIN GOOD!?

They're on the stage now. One of my favourite bands.

Got to see them in march after the covid hiatus and they did not disappoint Also they dropped doing stage shows and were on the floor again and the people who were knew to lightning bolt struggled to keep themselves from falling into Brian’s kit

I guess I have no need for these White Stripes cd’s anymore.

An essential band of recent decades. Much respect for true artists

I love that people continue to discover this band! Providence, RI has birthed some insane music.

Lightning Bolt live is the best experience for all living things

The end of USA is a Psycho insane. It sounds like a computer stuttering. And Black Pus is the most polite frontman of any band I've seen.

As a MOTORHEAD lifer, I LOVE THIS......

This band is a genre unto themselves

Wow I started listening to these guys spook long ago literally over a decade I can't believe they're still going. It's great to see something so obscure and original survive

The memory of going to an LB show and the possibility of seeing them again is the only thing getting me through this godforsaken hellsaga

The dislikes are from people who went deaf at the show.

Feels weird seeing them up on the stage lol

The quality of the audio mix is incredible! Sounded so clear without losing any of the energy. So damn good.

Dude this is recorded cleaner than their studio recordings lmfao excellent video

Lightning bolt reminding us why we are still Alive. Still my favorite band in Providence 22 years later.

I discovered LB in 2007 on MySpace and I was glad to see them in Paris at La villette in 2009. 15 years later, they still stand as one of my favorite bands. They are really cool and smart.

this is a great recording of their live performance..

One of the coolest performances by one of the coolest bands

I'd like to see them do a song with Norah Jones.

Holy s***. I have never heard of this band before just found this video that drummer however is a f****** Powerhouse

Saw them play on top of a parking garage. It was great

What a performance. Looks and sounds great in HD.

Love it!!!! Definitely has a Mike Patton feel to it!!!! .. tomahawk,mr bungle, !!! The list goes on!!!

This band only gets better and betterer.

Whoever chose the music for Mad Max should be fired for not hiring Lightning Bolt.

I saw these guys in '98 in NYC at this place called Brownies. I think it was the Wicked Farleys, Les Savy Fav, and Lightning Bolt. Man, what a religious experience.

Very apt representation of the state of the world today

For some time my main hobby has been watching videos of Lighting Bolt live sets which probably for a matter of contrasts have the effect of putting me at peace with the world around me, an effect comparable to the vaunted meditation I guess.... but all this to just say that after having seen and heard an honestly considerable number of live performances by the two Brians I think I can say, fook yes! this is the best. Guys goin better and better.

I have been whistling this song all day

Amazing sound, thanks for the vid guys!

Wow these guys are still around! I remember watching them pre RU-vid on Punkcast!

I love these guys so much. So stoked I got to see them once some years ago

....Holy Shit!!! Every song is a Drum Solo!!!!

Love this Noise.

Stumbled on this looking for info on the Ford Lightning, happy detour 😁

best thing I ever seen in my life in concert!!!

The statue and the spazz.

Bloody bonkers! I love it :)

SUCH A GLORIOUS PERFORMANCE!

Best live recording I’ve ever seen of them🔥🔥

Blow To the Head is INTENSE. that moment right at 9:00 when he starts doing crazy Slipknot snare fills is like going over the top of a roller coaster and immediately finding yourself cresting the peak of a second, even taller roller coaster. a crescendo followed by a crescendo. Lightning Bolt fuckin' rules.

I will never sleep again.

Saw these guys play with the Sandy Clams. Best show ever!

I saw them in Newport, KY at the Southgate House in 2005. 100s of concerts later, and it's still at the top of my fav live music experiences. Dracula Mountain man. I still go back and look and the pics on their website sometimes, I'm the arm in the air with the bad star tattoos lol.

First time hearing this band and it's such a transcendental vibe, for what I saw in another video the concerts are fucking wild

Incredible audio quality, whoever recorded and mixed this is a pro

Thanks Patrick

What an impressive display of power ♥♥♥ My numb brain needed this.

LB in HD....Lovely

High quality for the first time! Despite the fact that Chippendale songs are almost intelligible but his drumming skills makes him unique!