US – Saturday, March 20
Published 17:08, September the 24th, 2009
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The Lights Out, with, um, the lights out.   The Lights Out, with, um, the lights out.  
Photo: Creative Outlaw
 

Dreaming in ‘Color’ with the Lights out

The Lights Out Vs Martin Luther King
“I  had a dream,” Green declares. “I  dreamt this band. It literally started with me being unhappy with the band I was in before. I had a dream that I’ve never had before or since. I actually dreamed a song, a melody, and this imagery. I didn’t dream Adam, Jesse, and Matt…”

“For a second you had me wondering if I existed,” interrupts guitarist Adam Ritchie.  “I’m pinching myself over here.”

“When I woke up,” Green continues, “I knew I had to leave  the band I was in. This is a dream band for me; I love the process of working with these guys.”

 

 
With every artist and his aunt Twittering and Facebooking and claiming to no longer MySpace, bands are back to a level playing field when it comes to promotion. After all, what other tool can a rock ‘n’ roll band use on their journey to the top?

“Your  craft is your best tool,” advises Lights Out frontman Rishava Green. 

“It comes back to the quality of what you’re putting out. Twitter is a tool; Facebook is a tool; MySpace… is a tool that still has some utility for us,” he admits.

Craft is what this Boston-based crunchy power rock quartet has taken to heart, gradually honing their songwriting and waiting more than two years before releasing their full-length record,  “Color Machine,”  which officially launches tonight.

“We’re starting to send out little shoots of our sound as three-dimension al,” he says, in discussing the physical release of a CD, but possibly also citing his bandmates for the fuller sound.

“We get on with each other so well and we’ve been able to fall into a creative process that helps everybody feel that it’s their band. It’s not my band, I’m not telling you what to play. Everyone has ideas. There’s no better feeling than having complete trust in the guys with you.”

 


Township

With The Lights Out, Reverse, and Roman Traffic
Friday, 9 p.m.
T.T. the Bear’s Place
10 Brookline St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Central
$20, 18+, 617-492-BEAR
www.ttthebears.com

Linda Laban