Nightstick Lyrics

There has been more than one band called Nightstick.–1) Nightstick is a Boston trio Alex Smith (bass, vocals, violin), Cotie Cowgill (guitars) and Robert Williams (drums, tapes) Their first album, Blotter (0, 1995), was a tribute of sort to their idols (Pink Floyd, George Clinton, Lydia Lunch), a wildly psychedelic and heavy tribute to an entire alternative civilization, best summarized in Blotter.Ultimatum (Relapse, 1998) is a far more mature effort. The eleven-minute, many-part title-track is a harrowing melodrama that crawls at a slow, monotonous, Black Sabbath-esque pace, pierced by devastating guitar distortions and by a beasty Albert Ayler-ish saxophone, periodically visited by a slow version of Led Zeppelin's... read more