May 2013
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“So, now we’re about to go on the road, we’re working some of the kinks out of...”
– Steven Drozd, on The Flaming Lips’ new live show
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“I guess the earliest stuff was we were up at Dave Fridmann’s mixing Heady...”
– Steven Drozd, on what led to The Terror
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“It just couldn’t have happened if we hadn’t done those other things first. For...”
– Steven Drozd talking about The Terror
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“Even though a lot got recorded between Embryonic and The Terror, The Terror to...”
– Steven Drozd talking about The Terror
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“But that “You Are Alone” song, more than anything ever, I think, he was just...”
– Steven Drozd talking about The Terror
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THE FLAMING LIPS Heroes (David Bowie Cover,Live on Fallon)
Watch The Flaming Lips perform a cover of David Bowie’s Heroes on Late night with Jimmy Fallon. The band also performed “Try to explain” from their latest masterpiece The Terror, watch it here.
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April 2013
59 posts
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“It comes down to your personality, which you don’t get to pick. I think I’m...”
– Wayne Coyne, on The Terror and what love is to him
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“I think the reason we called the record The Terror is, we acknowledged to each...”
– Wayne Coyne talking about The Terror
“This would be the hokiest answer of all time, but actually it’d probably be...”
– Steven Drozd, on who has changed his perspective on life most
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“Every record we’ve done, there’s always these heavy, sad moments. For every...”
– Steven Drozd talking about The Terror
“It’s the negative image of it. It’s the opposite. It’s the black-and-white...”
– Steven Drozd comparing The Terror with “Do You Realize??” from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
“I was sort of holed up in the studio in the hallway—there’s the main studio...”
– Wayne Coyne talking about “You Are Alone” from The Terror
“Every once in a while you can be walking your dog in the park, and the way the...”
– Steven Drozd talking about The Terror
“I think people think if someone came up to me and said, ‘You know Wayne, I feel...”
– Wayne Coyne
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“There’s no light at the end of the tunnel; we’re just singing about...”
– Wayne Coyne talking about The Terror
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“Instead of opening something like Reason where you have literally thousands of...”
– Steven Drozd talking about The Terror
Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd talking about their...
Wayne Coyne: Part of it, especially at certain festivals, is that we encourage people to love each other and we just let the good vibes be the answer. We're not saying that that's [not] hokey, but we know there's an element of that in the air and that by the end of a three-day festival where people have been ingesting a lot of drugs and they want to feel the love, we could deliver and say, "Of course! Let's all finally surrender." And I could see where, if you have not been around a group of people and cried and told someone you love them, that it could absolutely be a life-changing experience. That's a strange thing, to be so vulnerable and surrender so much to this moment until whatever it is just overwhelms you.
Steven Drozd: But we're all getting older, and instead of four, five, or six old dudes up on stage playing music, why can't it be, "Wow, it's fucking 30 people and some of them are wearing animal costumes and there are crazy lights!" Why don't we just be that instead?
Wayne Coyne: We just create this whole thing where everyone is included. We see this, because we're on stages a lot, but a lot of times there's the band, there's the audience, and the two aren't going to get together. You're going to stand there and listen, they're going to stand here and play.
Steven Drozd: Hell, even the band and their crew! Some bands will be like, "We're the fuckin' band!" You know? "Here's our crew over here, don't talk to them and admire us!" But with our thing, it seems like everybody is included.
Wayne Coyne: Everybody is in it, and everybody's energy is helping everybody else; and that's a cool thing, because early on you don't have much control over what can happen. Little by little, we got some control or were able to do things our way. Some nights the stage is full of people and they're just high as fuck!
Steven Drozd: High as fuck.
Wayne Coyne: They're just crying and laughing!
Steven Drozd: I'm just pushed out of the way, I'm trying to play and they're like, "Dude, I am dancing here and you're in my space!"
Wayne Coyne: And it's legit! Music does that, but sometimes, certain attitudes and whatever else will break it down to where it's not the mega-surrender that it can be. We just say, "Fuck all that, let's just get right to the love." We come out and our very first song that we do would just obliterate everything, and we feel like, "If you're not into this right now, then you need to leave!" Because we're all about love and exchanging this energy and just being there with each other.
“I want to make it clear that when Ronald left, we had no choice but to change....”
– Steven Drozd, on how Ronald Jones leaving affected The Flaming Lips
“This might sound kind of pompous, but I really think our greatest triumph was...”
– Steven Drozd, on his proudest accomplishment with The Flaming Lips
“I don’t have a lot of regrets. Probably the biggest thing—and this is such a...”
– Steven Drozd on his greatest regret with The Flaming Lips
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“I think the biggest anguish and pain people have is when they can’t find the...”
– Wayne Coyne, on “Try to Explain” from The Terror
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“I guess what I’m getting at is that you can’t really get the full...”
– Wayne Coyne talking about The Terror
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“It’s just that word, too. If it had been named Control Report Number 16 or...”
– Steven Drozd, on naming the new album The Terror
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“I think so, because I think we would have had more rock in us that we wanted to...”
– Steven Drozd, on how he thinks covering The Dark Side of the Moon affected The Terror
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“It does that thing we talked about, almost being a “voice from beyond.” It never...”
– Wayne Coyne, on “Try to Explain” from The Terror
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“Well, I do have to say that a lot of The Terror stuff was made like Embryonic,...”
– Steven Drozd talking about the differences between the making of Embryonic and The Terror
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“I guess the thing is, and it’s taken me a while to realize, that I think that...”
– Steven Drozd, on his songwriting relationship with Wayne Coyne
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“When I was working on the music, it was kind of in a void. A lot of times we’re...”
– Steve Drozd talking about the jumping off point for The Terror
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“I want to explore further this thing where we’re taking these very simple synth...”
– Steven Drozd, on the future for The Flaming Lips 