In a flash of great light, in the dead winter of 1995, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The Lightning Boys came and The Lightning Boys went. Three odd fellows, three cheap instruments, one mighty sound. Like the misty origins of the galaxies, The Lightning Boys entered the time-space continuum in a single, mercurial night of musical recording. Then ... two decades of silence.
Now, after 20 years -- a mythical enough number -- that explosive moment of sonic intensity has assumed a digital form. It is here in your digital hands, like a sacred text, waiting for truth-seekers with the courage to look into the light as well as the dark. For they are both here in "The Only Four Songs of The Lightning Boys," a concept EP for the ages, starring The Lightning Boys.
And what a flash of Lighting boys it is! Like legendary psych revivalists Plasticland, of which John was a founding member, and their Midwestern cousins, the Romulans, which Dave had just departed at the time of this project, the Lightning Boys update sixties psychedelia with integrity and iconoclasm. Combined with Joe's cinematic drum flair it all adds up to the greatest noisy guitar pop concept EP in the history of history.
The Lightning Boys may have come and gone too soon, but their legend lives on in "The Only Four Songs of The Lightning Boys."
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