The Flaming Lips, the legendary psych rockers with genre-defying soundscapes and bonkers live performances, will be playing at the Warfield this weekend.
“We enjoy playing and we know we must do this big show and production, because we aren’t Jimi Hendrix,” said Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne .
“We are all introverts — I am an introvert,” said Coyne, whose band will play at the Warfield on Friday and Saturday. “We enjoy playing and we know we must do this big show and production, because we aren’t Jimi Hendrix, where you just know it’s going to be great on skill alone. But truly, we aren’t like that in the rest of our lives. I would never be at a party and stand up on the table and tell jokes and sing, even if I was completely wasted on drugs and alcohol. I’d be so embarrassed.
Following through on divine inspiration has allowed the band to continually reinvent itself over a 40-year career that has defied convention and expectation, to thrilling results. No longer tethered to the restrictions of a formulaic band setup, the Flaming Lips crafted their enduring masterpiece, “The Soft Bulletin” — a heartbreaking exploration of addiction, weakness, friendship and loyalty, set to the backdrop of disorienting synths, processed noises and feedback laden guitars. Despite the imagery of spiders, bugs and mad scientists, “The Soft Bulletin” remains a strangely optimistic endeavor — an ode to the power of collective resilience.
“I think we realized that we can be the band that makes ‘The Soft Bulletin,’ and the one that makes ‘The Terror,’ and one that makes ‘American Head,’” said Coyne. “It’s all about making something that is utterly of the now — of that present moment.”
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