

Lightning Bolt is the kind of album you get when you decide to record an album before you actually have enough songs to record an album. Illiteracy fans should get a kick out of the spraypainted graffiti my wife and I ran across on 96th Street this morning (at 2:00 PM when we finally got up): "Vote Oboma 2008." As my wife commented, "I tried writing him in, but apparently the world just wasn't ready for 'Oboma'." Could you pass along this hilarious Jay-Z song parody I made up today? It's called "In Brooklyn We Goat Herd - We Goat Herd" and it's about a group of goat herders NO DON'T GO AWA

Say, you're buddies with "Weird Al" Yankovic. Let me further add that Chippendale fills every square second of space with technically insane drum-smashing racket while sing/speaking occasional vocals into a telephone receiver microphone pumped through distortion effects. But before you formulate an idea of how boring such a duo must sound, let me add that Gibson tunes his bass like a cello, replaces his high A with a banjo string, and runs the instrument through pitch shifter, octave, distortion, bass distortion, delay and wah-wah pedals until it sounds almost nothing like a bass guitar (hence not one but TWO All-Music Guide reviewers mistaking it for a lead guitar). Lightning Bolt is a duo from Providence, Rhode Island featuring Brian Gibson on bass guitar and Brian Chippendale on drums and vocals.

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