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Brian Chippendale Biography

Brian Chippendale (born 1973) is a musician and artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. He is known as the drummer and vocalist for the experimental noise rock band Lightning Bolt and for his graphic art. On March 31, 2016 RollingStone magazine ranked Brian Chippendale number 91 in an article entitled "100 greatest drummers of all time."

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A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.

Artist, Different, Music, Referencing, Sound, Using

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

Drawer, Lose, Musician, Sight, Suffering

People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.

Hard Times, Reading, Things, Think, Thinking, Time

I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.

Art, People, Band, Weird, Scene

Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?

Certain, Eggs, Medium, Morning, Trying

I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording.

Back, Littles, People, Recording, Working With Others

I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.

Becomes, Easy, Play, Rocks, Straight

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

Song, Pieces, Language, Flexible, Music, Piece

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.

Trying, Each Day, Therapeutic, Drum, Day

Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music
art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do.

Art, Becoming, Blurring, Galleries, Lines, Psychedelic

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

Contextual, Leeway, Sound, Words

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

Down, Maybe, People, Radio, Rocks

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

Life, Master, Masters, Musician, Painter

Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window.

Fun, Language, Needs, Rule, Scenarios

I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables, guns, hats, whatever - and then also printing sheets of patterns, colorful polka dots and line drawing patterns.

Creating, Drawing, Gun, Like, Line, Vegetables

Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean. . . . A) I believe that, or B) I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.

Believe, Inability, Mean, Sign, Sing, Song

I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable.

Believe, Thinking, Sound, Sing, Vocalists

Gross things sound funny and set people up to listen to something a little uninviting.

Listen, Littles, People, Sound

I love digestible art, but I make what I think is organic and realistic, and therefore it's incomplete and completely tangent oriented. I try to keep with what I am thinking about that day - which changes too fast.

Art, Thinking, Trying, Incomplete, Completely, Love