Member Since: 18/07/2005
Band Website: www.howandlightning.com
Band Members: Paul Steiner......Rick Lucabaugh...Ezra Kille......Aaron Cook......
Influences:
Sounds Like: Pink Floyd, Tool, Grateful Dead, Doors, Tchaikovsky hybrid
"So, there's this band called HOW AND LIGHTNING out of Seattle, and it plays killer psychedelic music that sounds like the bastard child of dark and primal Pink Floyd and an even more over-the-top Freddie Mercury (oh, and also about two acts of Madame Butterfly – that's right, it sounds like damn opera), and it could fill up an entire concert hall with its sound, which is just all sorts of bombastic and grandiose and, hell, epic, and it's playing Brooklyn Nights, which is, like, one of the most intimate venues in Spokane. Basically, stand near the door in case the place collapses."
- Jeff Echert, The Inlander (Jun 06, 2008)
"Watching How and Lightning play was like watching an intense P.T. session with a hard-ass drill instructor-only each band member is their own sergeant, urging themselves on to incredible and complicated heights, combining those individual internal drives into one culminating artistry."
- Emily Womelsduff, Hub Pages (Apr 19, 2008)
Type of Label: Major