Brian Chippendale (born July 22, 1973) is an American musician and artist, known as the drummer and vocalist for the

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band Lightning Bolt and for his graphic art. Chippendale is based in

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, Rhode Island. Brian plays an assortment of drums usually decorated with prints he makes himself. He uses two ride cymbals as crash rides and a Ludwig snare drum.

Early life and education

Chippendale was born July 22, 1973 in Newburgh, New York and was raised in a suburb near

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, Pennsylvania. Chippendale is also an artist and attended printmaking classes at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the late 1990s through 2000, but did not graduate.

Music

As a vocalist for Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer, Chippendale eschews the usual microphone stand and conventional microphone, instead using a

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. This microphone is then run through an effects processor to alter the sound further. Chippendale often warbles or makes nonsensical sounds into the microphone, so the vocals typically come out extremely distorted and incomprehensible. More recently, Chippendale has used a Line 6

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to delay and repeat his vocals while drumming. Chippendale participated as drummer 77 in the

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performance which occurred on July 7, 2007, at the

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in Brooklyn. Chippendale performed drums on

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's 2007 album '' Volta''. He also did a remix for Björk's single "Declare Independence" under the alias Black Pus. Chippendale is part of the duo Wasted Shirt with Ty Segall, releasing their debut album, Fungus II, in 2020.

Graphic art

Chippendale created the album art for all Lightning Bolt releases. In October 2006, Chippendale released the comic book ''Ninja'', an art book and comic that incorporates simple action comics he drew as a child with more surreal work drawn as an adult. In 2007 he released ''Maggots'', which was drawn ten years previously but had never been released. Maggots is drawn over a Japanese book catalog, so Japanese characters appear in all the spaces that are not inked in by his pen. His next graphic novel, "If n' Oof", was published on June 30, 2010. In June 2010 an exhibit ''Fruiting Bodies'' of Chippendale's artwork opened at the Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn. Since May 2011, Chippendale has published a monthly comic in '' Mothers News'', a monthly newspaper published in Providence, Rhode Island. In February 2016, Chippendale published another graphic novel with Drawn and Quarterly entitled ''Puke Force''. In 2016, an article entitled "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time" in

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ranked Brian Chippendale as number 91. Chippendale currently shares a large industrial studio space in Providence with his wife, Jungil Hong, which they call the "Hilarious Attic". Chippendale and Hong have a son.

Discography

Lightning Bolt

* '' Lightning Bolt'' (1999) * '' Ride the Skies'' (2001) * '' Wonderful Rainbow'' (2003) * '' Hypermagic Mountain'' (2005) * '' Earthly Delights'' (2009) * '' Oblivion Hunter'' (2012) * '' Fantasy Empire'' (2015) * ''

Sonic Citadel ''Sonic Citadel'' is the seventh studio album by American noise rock band Lightning Bolt (band), Lightning Bolt. It was released in October 2019 under Thrill Jockey Records. Track listing References External links Sonic Citadel
at Thrill ...

'' (2019)

Black Pus

*''Black Pus 1'' (2005) *''Black Pus 2'' (2006) *''Black Pus 3: Metamorpus'' (2006) *''Black Pus 4: All Aboard the Magic Pus'' (2008) *''Black Pus Zero: Ultimate Beat Off'' (2009) *''Primordial Pus'' (2011) *''Pus Mortem'' (2012) *''All My Relations'' (2013) * ''Black Pus split LP with Oozing Wound'' (2014) *''Def Vesper'' (2020)

Boredoms

*''77Boadrum'' (2007)

Wasted Shirt

*''Fungus II'' (2020)

References

External links

Brian Chippendale's official website

Brian Chippendale's Instagram

Brian Chippendale's Artwork store
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