258: Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt, Black Pus)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Brian Chippendale is perhaps best known as the drummer and vocalist for the Providence duo, Lightning Bolt. A band perfectly suited to Chippendale's singular gift for conjuring colorful and frenetic noisescapes. He is also a prolific visual artist and graphic novelist. Brian tells Joe about: his childhood in New York state and Pennsylvania; his long-lasting aversion to becoming a grown up; attending art school at RISD; the genesis and evolving dynamic of Lightning Bolt; Fort Thunder--the legendary 6000 sq. ft. art loft in which he lived in the 90s; and how parenthood has changed his life, especially in the times of sheltering in place.

During the age of social distancing, we're recording remotely and releasing new episodes every day.

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0:00.0	This is Joe Wong.
0:14.9	Welcome to the Trap Set.
0:17.3	During the age of social distancing, we're recording remotely and releasing episodes every day. Today's guest
0:44.3	Today's guest is Brian Chippendale, who is perhaps best known as the drummer and vocalist for Lightning Bolt, a Providence-based duo he co-founded in 1994.
1:05.0	Aside from his work in Lightning Bolt, Chippendale also releases solo music under the name Black Puss.
1:12.6	An alumnus of Rhode Island School of Design, he's also a prolific visual artist and graphic novelist.
1:19.6	He spoke to me from his studio in Providence. Hello.
1:38.3	Brian.
1:41.0	Hey.
1:41.6	Hi. How are you?
1:42.9	I'm good.
1:48.5	Tell me what you've been up to today. Um, today. Oh my God.
1:55.8	It's, it's, you know, we're like living in the crazy moment. I'm like, basically my days and today was no different.
2:18.5	I have a three-year-old son and I just like, at this point, I'm kind of doing three-year-old son stuff from 7 a.m. till, you know, if I'm lucky, I can get to the studio by four or five. And then sometimes it's like five or six or seven, and then I'm there for three hours or something or four hours, and I do some work, and then sometimes it's like five or six or seven and then I'm there for three hours or something or four hours and I do some work and then I kind of like sleep drive home and then start it all
2:25.3	over again. When you say studio, do you mean a visual art studio or a recording studio or both?
2:31.1	It is both. It's what's it's it's not a recording studio. So yeah, it's a visual arts studio.
2:36.0	And it's funny, I'm so used to, you'll probably have to edit this out or not, but
2:41.0	I'm so used to talking in the phone and not using earbuds that I have like the earbuds
2:45.0	and I'm holding the phone on my face, which is ridiculous.
2:48.0	But old fashioned.
2:50.0	So it's like a, it's a studio for visual art and then we also practice in here. So it's, I love it. It's a great space. Like I moved in here about two years ago after the place I'd been in for 15 years, kind of the building was almost coming apart at the
3:10.4	seams. And so it got emptied out. And now I think it's just completely abandoned. So, and now I'm in a
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