Popular lore about these guys is that Moriaki, the original bassist, hijacked a plane with the Red Army and got stranded in North Korea—but whatever, this thing has been blowing my mind for more than two years. They could all just be serious gardeners and it wouldn't make a difference. I think everything being so dark on stage and in the video is especially cool because it makes you wonder, What's he doing to that guitar? Or maybe that's not his guitar but a flamethrower. You think you would see the light from that but I don't know, maybe it's somewhere far off stage. It sounds dumb to say out loud but I've always kind of thought it's a flamethrower that's screaming like that

Head’s up—it only really gets going around the 40 second mark

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