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ments , to the sonic blast brought to you by Johnny K , Stormchasers is a near-perfect 12- song collection start to finish . All this from a band who , in the scheme of the music world , barely made a blip on the map , and hasn ' t been a band in 10 years . [ The LP Stormchasers and single " Stormchaser " have quite a few different important meanings to Pandav and the band . " I ' m constantly writing , but something about this song had to be an LBC song or nobody ' s ," Pandav explained . " When I showed it to Adam it was a beautiful moment for me , and I hope for him , too . I never told him what the song was about ; he just knew . We didn ' t talk about it , we just finished the song . It ' s about Joe [ Sell ]. It ' s the only song on the record about Joe , though there are little lines here and there . I find it a little bit pandering or – you know , everybody knows he passed away , I didn ' t want to exploit that . But this song wasn ' t that . It really was from my heart . If you listen to the lyrics it ' s not nice , I ' m not being mean either , I ' m just being honest about what it felt like , what it was like for me . I ' m really proud that that song ended up being the title track of the record . It was powerful for all of us ."
" For me , I just needed to do this ," said Pandav . " I needed one more album . I was gonna take a chance on them breaking my heart , but I ' m so glad they didn ' t ." Since it has been 20 years , and as Pandav puts it , " a feat that I don ' t know anyone else locally has done ," the band decided it was a big deal , something to celebrate . " We decided to do something different and cool . We love playing House Of Blues and Metro , but let ' s do something different ," said Pandav . So on November 3rd LBC is going to perform at Joe ' s Live in Rosemont . " It ' s a new venue , and everybody raves about the sound and how cool the place is . It ' s the suburbs , but we ' re from the suburbs ! So we decided to give a little love back to that area . They plan on playing a long show , spanning their 20-year catalog , and maybe some rarities . With fellow members Kaustubh " Stubhy " Pandav ( vocals ), Adam Krier ( co-vocalist , guitar ), Ryan Fergus ( drums ), Jason Shultejann ( bass ), " We might do a little soundcheck contest ," Pandav added , " because we can ' t play everything , so maybe we can play a couple during soundcheck for fans who win the contest ?" They asked a couple of bands from their past to get back together and open the show , Treaty of Paris and Swizzle Tree , Pandav ' s brother ' s band .
" Friends get on each other ' s nerves , but we ' re more like family now ," Pandav admitted . " I know that sounds so cheesy and everybody says it , but it ' s true . The way we talk to each other , the way we fight then ' bro ' down – I hate that word , but we ' re blessed to have that relationship . And who knows ? Maybe at 30 years I ' ll be saying the same thing !"
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