Brian Chippendale

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Brian Chippendale
Brian Chippendale playing drums (photo by Scott Smallin)
Background information
Genre(s)	Noise Rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, Comic Artist
Instrument(s)	Vocals Drums Saxophone
Label(s)	Load Records diarreahRama Records^[1]
Associated acts	Lightning Bolt Mindflayer Black Pus Lord Sun Sun

Brian Chippendale is a musician based out of Providence, Rhode Island. Chippendale is best known as the drummer/vocalist for the bands Lightning Bolt (alongside bassist Brian Gibson) and Mindflayer (alongside Matt Brinkman). He also plays saxophone and drums in a solo project called Black Pus. Chippendale also illustrates his own comic book series, Peanut Butter Ninja, and a number of other one-shot, limited-publication comics. As a result of playing drums in front of Lightning Bolt's amplification setup, which often exceeds 3000 watts, Chippendale has been reported to have suffered considerable hearing loss. Before its destruction, Chippendale was a member of Fort Thunder, part of an abandoned, pre-Civil War textile factory in Providence, Rhode Island known as a work-space for local, avant-garde artists.

1 Sound
2 Equipment
3 Comics
4 Discographies
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Sound

Chippendale is known for his fast-paced, frantic drumming. In the Peter Glantz and Nick Noe film The Power of Salad, revolving around a string of Lightning Bolt performances across America, Chippendale likens his drumming to his drawing style: "I feel like everything I do has something to do with filling up space. I dunno, almost the way I drum is the way I draw: it's like I'm covering every little space with a beat or a hit or something."^[2]

[edit] Equipment

Lightning Bolt is known for their dynamic and often hodge-podge setups. Chippendale does, however, have a fairly consistent equipment set-up during live performances: ^[3]

[edit] Drum Setup

One Snare drum (Ludwig-Musser Supraphonic)
Two Floor toms
One Kick drum with a DW 5000 kick pedal
Two Cymbals (one Sabian 20" ride cymbal and one Zildjian 20" Ping ride cymbal)
Drum sticks: Zildjian "Absolute Rock" blunt-end sticks
Drumheads: REMO pinstripe drumheads

Though the composition of Chippendale's drum setup is fairly consistent, the positioning of them is not. Usually the kick drum and cymbals are to his right, the floor toms in front and to the left, and the single snare drum directly infront of the floor toms. During Mindflayer performances, Chippendale also tends to employ a second Ludwig-Musser snare drum.

[edit] Microphone

As a vocalist for Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer, Chippendale eschews the usual microphone stand and conventional microphone, instead using the type of microphone built into a household telephone receiver, held in his mouth or attached to a hood. 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 almost incomprehensible. More recently, Chippendale has used a Line 6 delay pedal to delay and repeat his vocals while drumming.^[4]

[edit] Effects

Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeler
Boss SD-1 Overdrive pedal
Morley Wah pedal
Boss OC-3 Super Octave Pedal
Death by Audio Interstellar Overdriver Pedal – used to add noise to drums
BIAS Coron DS-7 Drum Synth – a simple drum-synth module attatched to bass drum

[edit] Comics

Panel from Protista Inspections

Aside from music, Chippendale is also a prolific comic-book artist. He's created the album art for all four Lightning Bolt releases, and draws a number of other, usually one-shot comics. Chippendale's drawing style, like his drumming, is very busy and full of small, perhaps unnecessary details. Chippendale's style has been described as "almost a little too enthusiastic." The same reviewer continues: "The manic detail and cross-hatching on every page, the Winsor McCay level of ambition in creating a beautiful page layout -- it's all a little hard to process."^[5]

In October 2006, Chippendale released his long-awaited Ninja comic book, an epic 80-page graphic novel five years in the making. [1]

[edit] Discographies

[edit] Solo Projects

Appears as "Gleemun" on the Sonic Chimp compilation LP (Sealed Hotel, 1996)
Black Pus I (2004)
Black Pus II (2005)
Black Pus III: Metamorpus (2006)
Olneyville Providence Live Compilation (10 CD-r handmade bootleg boxset) (no label) (2005)

[edit] Lightning Bolt

[edit] Albums

Lightning Bolt (Load Records) (1999)
Zone 50-minute companion cassette (1999)
Ride the Skies (Load Records) (2001)
Wonderful Rainbow (Load Records) (2003)
Hypermagic Mountain (Load Records) (2005)

[edit] 7 Inch Records

Split (with Forcefield) (1997)
Conan (2000)
Ultra Cross Vol. 1 (split with Guitar Wolf) (Ki/oon Records) (2006) (Released in Japan only)^[1]

[edit] DVD / Video

The Power of Salad (Load Records) (2002)
Pick a Winner Compilation (Load Records) (2004)

[edit] Appearances on Compilations

Repopulation Program (Load Records) (1996)
Fruited Other Surfaces (Vermiform Records) (1999)
You're Soaking in it: The Sounds and Smells of Load Records (Load Records) (1999)
Bad Music for Bad People (Trash Art) (2000)
Mish Mash Mush Mega Mix (2000)
U.S. Pop Life Vol. 7: Random Access Music Machine (2001)
KFJC Live from the Devil's Triangle Vol. III (2001)
Real Slow Radio Compilation (Fort Thunder) (2001)
Old Tyme Lemonade Complilation (Hospital Productions) (2001)
If The Twenty-First Century Didn't Exist, It Would Be Necessary To Invent It (5RC) (2002)
U.S. Pop Life Vol. 12: Random Slice of Life at Ft. Thunder - Bands Who Played At (2002)
I Love Guitar Wolf...Very Much (Narnack Records) (2005)
A Benefit For Our Friends (DMBQ Tribute CD) (No label) (2005)