![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s largely because the Flaming Lips’ most recent American Head returns them to the heights of positive psychedelia of high-water marks like The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Even with a two story inflatable robot appearing only four songs in during “Yoshimi,” the show didn’t even peak with those early moments, but stayed at that elevated level. You might say mortality has been a constant for the band, as they followed with the celebratory “Do You Realize,” whose second half of the question in one verse is “that everyone you know someday will die?” There’s hardly time to mourn, though as that terrific anthem came with a huge inflatable rainbow across the stage and a rain of confetti-despite being only the second song. Before the show even began, he toyed with a mechanical bird that flew above the heads of the crowd to accompany the opening song “My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion,” about a bird that hangs around during wintertime, defying the notion that “autumn’s a common’ and soon everything around us will die.” It was all part of a frenzied visual overload that perfectly matched the joy of the music. And he had other distractions: shooting streamers, pointing a spotlight into the crowd, unleashing confetti at various times, and hoisting a site-specific set of letter balloons at the finale. But he did roll out a big bubble full of balloons to the crowd at the show’s end. At 60, he no longer rolls over the audience. Now, the band must have piles of leftover bubbles.īy the end of their fall tour Tuesday at the Anthem in Washington, DC, concert restrictions had eased enough to allow fans to move around without being confined to bubbles (vaccination proof and masks were still part of the protocol, though).īut Coyne sang almost entirely inside a series of bubbles, with new ones constantly subbing in when his got too foggy, too hot, or a little less inflated. When Covid hit, they proved safe barriers he devised a series of concerts in the band’s hometown of Oklahoma City where not only all the band members were enclosed in their own bubbles, but so were the audience members. He’s the guy who scampers on stage at a Flaming Lips concert to inflate a series of transparent plastic bubbles surrounding lead singer Wayne Coyne-or similarly blow-up giant rainbows, or swaying pink robots, as required.ĭecades ago, Coyne developed the idea of singer-in-plastic bubble at rock concerts as a method to roll over his blissed-out audience, improving and streamlining the hand-to-hand combat of crowd surfing. Add to the list of necessary roadie skills that of leaf blower. ![]()
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