NYC GHOSTS & FLOWERS

also appears on:

• Lightnin' 7" (live 2000)
• MIX TAPE #1 (as 'Ystad' - from Black Box 7")
• 04/08/00 "LIVE AT ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES 2000"
• 07/06/00 "LIVE IN COPENHAGEN 2000"

Line-up:
Thurston - guitar
Kim - trumpet/guitar/vocals
Lee - synth
Steve - groovebox

Lyrics   status: confirmed

Lightnin'
Lightnin' strike
Lightnin' strikes
Lightnin' strike me
Lightnin' strikes me
Lightnin' strike me down
Lightnin' strikes me down
Lightnin' strikes me down

NOTES:

• Working title: "10"
• The only song from NYC Ghosts to have vocals at its live debut. This piece is much more involved and interesting live, in my opinion. Kim's vocals are more prominent and the noise level is about ten times higher.
• Thurston wedges a bike horn under his strings for this song.
• Jim O'Rourke played EMS synth on this song for the 2000 tour.
• Various people have guested on live performances of this song, including Mats Gustafsson, William Winant, and Eddie Vedder.
• A live version from 4/8/00 was scheduled for inclusion on the aborted Nevermind single.
• A live version from 7/8/00 was included on a 7" in the Black Box set (the song spanned both sides of the vinyl!).

ALTERNATE VERSIONS:

• On "Nevermind" single - LIVE - ?

  Recorded live on 4/8/00 at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival. This actually never came out, but the entire show was webcast at the time (the gig premiered some of the first vocals on NYC ghosts songs, as well as the only performance of "J'accuse Ted Hughes").

• On "Lightnin'" 7" - LIVE - 5:00 / 4:40

  Recorded live on 7/8/00 in Kongsberg, Norway. Jim O'Rourke and Mats Gustafsson appear. Released on very exclusive (limited to 100 copies!) 7", with the song spanning both sides of the vinyl.