Ride the Skies

Ride the Skies
Studio album by Lightning Bolt
Released February, 2001
Recorded Providence, Rhode Island
Genre Noise rock
Length 35:33
Label Load Records – LOAD #31
Producer Dave Auchenbach
Lightning Bolt chronology

Lightning Bolt
(1999)		 Ride the Skies
(2001)		 Wonderful Rainbow
(2003)
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Ride the Skies is the second album by noise rock band Lightning Bolt. Track #2, "Saint Jacques," is named after bassist Dan St. Jacques, a friend of the band and member of the bands Olneyville Sound System, Vincebus Eruptum (former), and Landed, the latter of which both Brian Gibson and Brian Chippendale are former members. Scandinavian free jazz power trio The Thing recorded a cover of track #4, "Ride the Sky." The cover is on their 2006 CD Action Jazz, released on the Norwegian label Smalltown Superjazzz.

Track listing

  1. "Forcefield" – 4:01
  2. "Saint Jacques" – 4:13
  3. "13 Monsters" – 2:48
  4. "Ride the Sky" – 4:27
  5. "The Faire Folk" – 6:16
  6. "Into the Mist 2" – 3:21
  7. "Wee Ones Parade" – 5:19
  8. "Rotator" – 5:08

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