That part of it makes it so special 'cause when we were there, I think that surprised everybody how cool that was and how it just sent chills up your spine to hear that element of it. It's not that present on the album 'Soft Bulletin' that we made there was little bits of choir. See more of her work here.But this being live and being kind of obnoxiously angelic or something is amazing." The Flaming Lips perform "The Soft Bulletin" live in 2016 at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado, with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Tina Hagerling is a Denver-based freelance photographer and web designer. Follow his whimsies at Twitter, his live music habit at Gigbot and his iTunes addictions at Last.fm. He is also the executive director of the Underground Music Showcase, Colorado’s premier festival of local music. Ricardo Baca is the founder and co-editor of Reverb and an award-winning critic and journalist at The Denver Post. The spectacle was immense.Īnd for the Flaming Lips, new tricks go a long way. The other new treat involved the distribution of hundreds of laser pointers, which had a special use about halfway through the show when the screen instructed the audience to shoot Coyne with their lasers - and the singer reflected them back to the crowd with a giant, circular mirror. While Coyne was in the plastic ball as it filled up with air, a ramp approached the humongous video screen - which was playing host to a naked woman dancing erotically.Īs the camera closed in on the woman’s crotch - her genitalia represented by a swirling mass of psychedelia - a door opened in her crotch and out walked Michael Ivins, Steven Drozd and Kliph Scurlock.
The band did, however, make a memorable entrance. There were few surprises - not even when Coyne came out with the air-blower attached to the gigantic, confetti-filled balloon (seen that) or the ’round-the-neck strobe light and smoke gun (seen that, too). (The song is already available on iTunes with two others, “The Impulse” and “Convinced of the Hex.”) The new stuff sounded perfectly weird, although less bombastic than the hits from the group’s previous outing, “At War With the Mystics.”įrom that last record, the Lips celebrated a new president with the super-infectious “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song” and the low-end-heavy “The W.A.N.D.,” two songs that thrive in the live performance realm and make up for the absence of “Free Radicals.” The band’s previous record, “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” represented potently with the inclusion of a touching “Fight Test,” a solemn take on the title track and a memorable, if straightforward, approach to “Do You Realize?” (It’s so special that singer Wayne Coyne remembered that Sunday was their fourth show there.) The highlight of Sunday’s show was the new material from the forthcoming record “Embryonic” - including the driving space-rock of “Silver Trembling Hands,” a song that had the crowd singing along to its mellow end. It’s always special when the Lips play Red Rocks.
The noise was a boon to the Lips, who announced that they were recording the show because they woke up that morning feeling like it might be a “special night.”
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The Flaming Lips played Red Rocks on Sunday night, and while the crowd didn’t fill the natural, outdoor amphitheater, they sounded like a full house. As out-there/crazy as the Lips are with their live shows, there is a certain amount of repetition involved with their concerts.īut when a band’s rut involves crawling over the audience in plastic balls, confetti cannons, human-sized balloons released into the audience and dancing fans dressed as animals/monsters/creatures on the side of the stage, it’s still a treat to experience that kind of repetition. One could make the argument that you only need to see the Flaming Lips once every album cycle. To say that the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne loves confetti is an understatement. Saturday, August 20th 2022 Home Page Close Menu
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