In a world – show business – in which performers tend to speak as cautiously as if they’re running for a city council seat, the members of the Flaming Lips are refreshingly blunt. The joke: “What do coffee and Eric Clapton have in common?”
#The flaming lips she don t use jelly lyrics series#
Most recently, the first in a series of Cream reunion shows took place here, which prompts a joke from Lips multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd.
The stately concert venue remains legendary in rock circles. We are at London’s Royal Albert Hall, where the band is preparing to play a sold-out show to celebrate the release of its album At War With the Mystics. I will end up spending four days with Coyne (on two continents), and every time we meet he is wearing the same suit, with the bow tie unfastened in precisely the same manner. This afternoon, Coyne’s suit is white with blue pinstripes, matched with a vest and an untied bow tie. This, combined with his unruly haircut and penchant for formally tailored three-piece suits, gives him the air of an Old West undertaker, or perhaps a flimflam man running an elaborate con. Now in his midforties, Coyne has allowed a generous amount of gray to creep into his scruffy beard and sideburns. But that’s the trouble with all of these psychedelic drugs: too much of a commitment and not enough payback.”
“I would still take LSD if it could be for an hour. “I would enjoy bits of a trip, but it would just be too long for me,” Coyne continues.
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