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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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