xpost - at the very least he should have gotten far more blowback for that Badu shit he pulled.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
a friend of a friend was his assistant and it sounded like it was crazy
when they weren't busy he made her paint his house
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
Kliph made him out to be a real angry, volatile, even somewhat violent character, which is obviously impossible to verify, but that seems to line up with what I thought was hiding behind that Yoshimi-era goofiness.
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
Kliph only drummed on some of Embyonic, if I remember right. And he left afterwards. I know there was a lot going on, but he seemed really irritated with Wayne running around with Kesha and I assume the mid-life hedonism/crisis that Wayne was going through around that time. Wayne as a freaky workaholic was much better than Wayne the insufferable stoner.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
He's also credited on The Terror but idk how credits/reality line up for them
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
there's interviews where he talks about the terror sessions, it seems pretty clear he played on it too.
― ufo, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
It’s only been a week but I've already cooled considerably on this album.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 19 September 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
All these TV specials on John Lennon in honor of what would have been his 80th birthday reminded me of the only time I saw the Flaming Lips, at Irving Plaza in NYC. Wayne Coyne says, "this song is dedicated to everyone whose birthday it is today!!" and people in the audience get really excited, yelling that it's their birthday, or it's their friend Sarah's birthday, or their dog's birthday... And this one guy in the front row keeps shouting "it's John Lennon's birthday!! it's John Lennon's birthday" over and over. Wayne seems to be ignoring him at first, then finally he says (in a slightly annoyed tone)"yeah yeah, i know, it's John Lennon's birthday. But he's dead, y'know? Why should we celebrate his birthday when there are all these people whose birthday it is and they're here to enjoy it??"
idk about this guy, but thought that was cool.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 17 October 2020 07:23 (four years ago) link
Surprised by how much I like their new one. The only track I don’t really care for is “Brother Eye,” and even that’s listenable.
― spastic heritage, Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
I like it with reservations. I enjoy the music, and Wayne's schtick doesn't bother me like it had been starting to. My main problem with the new one is that Wayne doesn't take a break often enough. As much as American Head gets compared to the Soft Bulletin, that album had a lot of long bad-ass instrumental sections.
I kept wanting Wayne to take a break with the new one. And sometimes he'll sing the same thing repeatedly, seemingly to fill up space, when singing it once would work much better. I need to listen to it more, maybe I'll get over these issues.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 18 October 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/flamings-lips-day-san-francisco-stern-grove-18299291.php
"We’re very grateful to embrace August 20 as The Flaming Lips Day in San Francisco," the band's frontman Wayne Coyne said in a statement. "We’ve had many shared moments in this city and we feel grateful to be a part of the creative and eclectic fabric of the San Francisco music scene that makes this city so special.”
While tickets cost nothing, this Sunday's show — that also includes a DJ set from Neon Indian aka Alan Palomo — is sold out. Some tickets will be released at random this week for those who registered at www.sterngrove.org.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
Last great album was The Terror, which was their best since Soft Bulletin.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
That one song off the latter is all over this film trailer I just watched.
― Blecch on Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
No sorry, off Yoshimi. DO U SEE??
― Blecch on Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
I actually saw the strangest show in San Francisco featuring the Flaming Lips. It's was all about audience participation. I'm still not sure what the hell is it was, it seems to be called "Boom-Box Experiment #4"
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-flaming-lips/1998/bimbos-365-club-san-francisco-ca-73f81271.html
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:37 (one year ago) link
Wow, it's online. Haha I was at this thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coBvv2r1gQU
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
I think that was one of the precursors to Zaireeka, when they were playing around with the idea of orchestrating sounds from many sources.
― enochroot, Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
Yeah, iirc, there was also one where Wayne had a bunch of people play tapes from their cars as they were dispersed around a parking garage.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
I was not at the one that Bee OK references but I was at the one that j/v/c2.0 refers to. Can confirm it was wild.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
also as an aside, I want to say that I often misjudge how good "Hit To Death" is, might be their best album when all is said and done.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
I know this was covered in the Rolling Obituary thread, but thought worth bumping in their proper thread... been a really rough few days for this band.
First, Nell Smith, a young musician they collaborated on an album of Nick Cave covers with a few years back died at the age of 17, in a car accident. And Steven Drozd's 16 year-old daughter went missing on Saturday.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 17:40 (three weeks ago) link
drozd's daughter has apparently been found!
― hott ogo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 18:00 (three weeks ago) link
Oh, that's great news! Hadn't seen that update!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 18:06 (three weeks ago) link
wonderful news
― nxd, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 18:08 (three weeks ago) link
Haven't listened to them for a while but have felt for them (for want of a better phrase) over the last couple of days.
― djh, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 19:07 (three weeks ago) link