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€œIf that one hadn't been as successful or revered as it is, I don't know what we would've made of ourselves,†he said.
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“It's tough.â€Ĭoyne is fully aware that “The Soft Bulletin†represented a crucial turning point in The Flaming Lips' career and remains one their biggest fan favorites, so he wants to get it right. €œWe have tried to play them, and I didn't feel like they were very successful, so that's really where the work is, to try to not just play them, because as notes and things go, it's not hard to play, but it's hard to find where is the dynamic in some of that stuff,†Coyne said. And if you're loaded at the Thunder's game, you only have to walk 20 feet to go to a Flaming Lips show.â€Īs for “The Soft Bulletin†late show, fans can expect note-perfect readings of the album's most popular tunes, including the exhilaratingly anthemic “Race for the Prize†and the heart-meltingly hopeful “Waitin' for a Superman,†along with more obscure and complex numbers such as the dreamlike “Slow Motion†Coyne's moving, autobiographical message of friendship to his partners Drozd and Ivins, “The Spiderbite Song†and the sublimely trippy “Buggin'.†“That's just to kind of include everybody.
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€œI believe I'm gonna go over to the Thunder game at halftime and then tell everybody to come on over to the Cox Center when they get done, and probably have a special ticket price for the people that come in later,†Coyne said. Tonight's show will open at 8:30 with Stardeath and White Dwarfs, fronted by Wayne's nephew, Dennis Coyne, before the Lips take the stage for their regular set, followed at midnight by the “Soft Bulletin†performance. So, to sonically bolster the onstage lineup tonight, the Lips are bringing guest multi-instrumentalist Ray Suen (The Killers) onboard, turning the band into a sextet when you count frontman Coyne, multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd, bassist Michael Ivins, drummer Kliph Scurlock and newest member Derek Brown, a local all-purpose player who's toured with The Starlight Mints, Liz Phair, Steve Burns and The Chainsaw Kittens, among others.īrown also serves as Business Development Center manager for the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma, established by Lips manager Scott Booker. You just make music any way you can (in the studio) and get on with it,†Coyne said. €œWhen we were doing ‘The Soft Bulletin,' I mean like we do all our records, you don't consider can you really play this stuff (live). Having already taken broad steps into the realm of the untried and outrageous with 1997's “Zaireeka,†an album made up of four discs designed to be played in synchronization on four different players, the Lips took another giant stride into a wide, wild world of symphonic and melodic eccentricities, a world of skewed musical beauty that was light years beyond the punk- and noise-pop territory where they'd begun. I don't know, some people wouldn't know ‘The Soft Bulletin' that much, but some of the tracks are just, they're these humongous, strangely played (songs).†€œSo it's kind of thrilling from a musical standpoint, but also kind of nerve-wracking from a musical standpoint, 'cause it's difficult music. €œYou know, some of the songs we've never played (live) before,†the Lips leader said during a break in show preparations last week.