Biography
As an alternative to their main roles in Stephen McBean’s acclaimed Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin -influenced Vancouver, Canada psychedelic rock outfit Black Mountain, boyfriend and girlfriend, Joshua Wells (1976, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; keyboards, guitar, vocals, ex-Ex Dead Teenager) and Amber Webber (b. British Columbia, Canada; vocals, ex-Dream On Dreary) decided to record an album of stripped down folk, naming both a 2007 disc and their project, Lightning Dust. Having also previously played together in Jerk With A Bomb and Pink Mountaintops, two further McBean-fronted bands related to the Black Mountain Army collective, Webber and Wells found room to breathe in this new incarnation. Webber’s identical twin sister, McBean’s girlfriend Ashley, caused confusion when she replaced her sibling in Pink Mountaintops, but this gave Amber the chance to make progress on the songs that she had been working on informally with Wells at their...
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