THE FLAMING LIPS WITH PREFUSE 73 HOW TO

We're going to do some stuff with Lee Ranaldo, and Nels Cline and there's talk about Jimmy Page doing something later in the summer. It sparks another atmosphere and another direction we might not do ourselves. We want to do that all throughout these releases, where every other one has some interesting musician attached to it. Coincidentally, was in Dave Fridman's studio at the end of January and we were scheduled to come up. I knew we were going to be collecting different weirdos from around the planet to see if they would do stuff with us. Tell us about the new EP with the band Neon Indian. If we try to make things that are too precious, they end up in a museum somewhere and no one gets to have any fun with it. You have to destroy a little bit of this art to get to some other art, which is keeping with the Flaming Lips philosophy. My suggestion is to get some of your friends around and eat into this damn thing, get the music out, and have a good time. So, you have to eat it to get to the USB drive?

THE FLAMING LIPS WITH PREFUSE 73 HOW TO

The bubble gum companies didn't know how to do it, so we found this guy in Raleigh that does giant gummy stuff, like worms and bears and things. It made me think I should make a skull out of bubble gum and we’d insert this USB drive with music in it. Everybody I'd hand it to thought it was bubble gum, so they'd want to eat it. We thought, “Why don't we use a skull again?” We covered a replica skull in pink rubber and sprayed it with bubblegum perfume because I thought it'd be a great thing. When we did our first record, we were using this cool-looking skull that I stole from high school. Where did the idea for a gummy skull originate? at the end of last year was either going to be a time where we sit around and do nothing or a time where we fucking do all kinds of crazy shit. This gap that arrived in our contract with Warner Bros. There's always a sense that the music you're working on at the moment is you and is what you want the world to hear. But if you see people every weekend then you feel like, if I made a fool out of myself last weekend, I'll be nice this weekend so whatever damage is done I can make up for it.

If you only visit them once every couple of years, you kind of dread it and you hope it all goes well. What is the benefit of releasing new songs monthly instead of putting out a proper album? I live in Oklahoma most of the time and everybody else is somewhere else in the world, but as long as you have a computer it's cool. It's not as glamorous as the vision of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan sitting in front of a microphone getting drunk, but you can get a lot of interesting things to happen because you don't have to wait on everybody to arrive in the same place at the same time. You get to work with anybody you want, but it's all done through the computer. That's how you do a lot of things these days. Wayne Coyne: We've done three tracks with (experimental hip-hop producer) Prefuse 73 and we're waiting on another track he's going to email us. Style: Who are you working with for the latest round of songs? Lately, he’s been spotted hand delivering Flaming Lips EPs to his local record stores. Coyne still live with his wife in the same working-class suburb of Oklahoma City where he grew up. In the meantime, their live performances have evolved into spectacles of joyous celebration where the audience is dazzled by manned space bubbles, Day-Glo confetti, pulsating strobe lights and people gyrating in animal costumes.Ĭalling from Tarbox Road Studios in Buffalo, N.Y., Wayne Coyne comes across as your average Joe, albeit one who has the artistic freedom to explore any eccentric idea that pops into his head. roster, scored a breakthrough single with the arty-pop song “She Don't Use Jelly,” recorded two of the most critically acclaimed albums of the last 15 years with “The Soft Bulletin” and “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” and ventured to the furthest reaches of psychedelia yet with their double album “Embryonic.”įlaming Lips material is expected to be released in unconventional formats throughout this year, including the recent Gummy Skulls, which contain thumb drives with four new songs. But the Lips have maintained that fearless, anything-goes spirit as they prank called their way onto the Warner Bros. Granted, gone are the days when they would bring a motorcycle on stage and slap a mic on it as the engine revved, filling the venue with exhaust. And fans have followed members through every metaphoric rabbit hole, no matter how dubious or absurd.

'I love these weirdos!' the Flaming Lips are, from left, Kliph Scurlock, Michael Ivins, Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd.įlaming Lips ringmaster Wayne Coyne has said that, when creating art, one should “just go for it.” The Oklahoma-based group, which includes founding bassist Michael Ivins and longtime multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd, have been doing just that for almost 30 years now.

The flaming lips with prefuse 73