Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[harmless]

So the new promo pic clearly shows the band performing for a live music video; the new MC clip playing MYM seems to be from that. They obviously filmed little vignettes from each perspective and a live video and other things in promotion.

Where are you seeing this stuff?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asU8qPk0NEA
http://www.youtube.com/user/PearlJamOff ... dd&view=46
http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/i ... 573025.jpg

How does that very posed promo pic show that they were performing for anything?

You didnt want the first video did you?

LOL nope, it didn't work for me. Will try again in a bit.

[wilkins]

And an interesting foreshadowing from Danny Clinch from June 27: http://instagram.com/p/bDFkaYEsn8/

[harmless]

i like that matt video, sounds good

I'm expecting it to sound better than what's on the actual single.

[harmless]

The Matt drumming video sounds OK; the subtleties, like ghost-notes, come through like they don't on the record, and rarely do live. That's probably not surprising as it sounds as if the guitarists here feel similar about their instrument on MYM.

[harmless]

I'm a little frustrated that Matt's snare always sounds very nice on his drumming promo vids, but not in the actual PJ songs.

[EJ]

The Matt drumming video sounds OK; the subtleties, like ghost-notes, come through like they don't on the record, and rarely do live. That's probably not surprising as it sounds as if the guitarists here feel similar about their instrument on MYM.

Do you think we'll get an isolated video of BoB on the piano for FD?

[harmless]

The Matt drumming video sounds OK; the subtleties, like ghost-notes, come through like they don't on the record, and rarely do live. That's probably not surprising as it sounds as if the guitarists here feel similar about their instrument on MYM.

Do you think we'll get an isolated video of BoB on the piano for FD?

I sure hope so!

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

The Matt drumming video sounds OK; the subtleties, like ghost-notes, come through like they don't on the record, and rarely do live. That's probably not surprising as it sounds as if the guitarists here feel similar about their instrument on MYM.

Do you think we'll get an isolated video of BoB on the piano for FD?

its a real possibility

[wilkins]

Get your 'fill' of MC news (non PJ): http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/08/s ... -an-album/

[harmless]

Hmmm...

[Farmer John]

I just don't have the attention span to listen to that.

[harmless]

I wouldn't worry, neither do I and I play the drums.

[harmless]

I listened to 1 minute 30 seconds and they still hadn't broken out into a groove, it was all mindless faffing.

[Farmer John]

I skipped through to different parts, and there were some cool bits for sure, but without a bit of melody to go with it, I get bored.

[stupidmop]

That sounds terrifying, it needs some death metal howls over the top.

[Heathen]

It's not terrifying, just boring.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

im looking forward checking this out tonight, even with the unkind words so far

[stupidmop]

I jumped from place to place, i just got noise all the way through.

[harmless]

The crazy thing is, I'm not at all opposed to the concept of an all-drums album. But it seems to me that they're assuming too much of their audience, that hearing three drummers playing the fastest fills they can in unison, and sounding like a herd of stampeding wildebeest as they do, is going to be interesting to people. Bless Matt Cameron's enthusiastic little socks, he thinks that what's fun for him is going to be awesome fun for the listener.

[harmless]

I think that to base anything on drums by themselves, you first have to establish a groove that people can get behind. You can stampede like wildebeest and go crazy if you want, but not for the first two minutes of the track or people will just be put off right away.

IMVHO.