The Flaming Lips...

Yep, still sayin', "fuck this guy".

I'm sorry, I have to post this again because lol WOW lol

"I don't even like talking about our ex-drummer," he said, "because it just uses up this space that we could be talking bout this cool shit we're doing with Sean Lennon and My Morning Jacket and Miley [Cyrus], and I don't want any of that tainted."

god that shit sounds so cool

"I would say you shouldn't follow my tweets; you shouldn't even probably want to be a Flaming Lips fan because we don't really have any agenda. We go about doing things through our imagination. And I would say that if we wrongly stepped on anybody's sacredness, then we're sorry about that. That was never our intention."

wtf kind of clause is "if we wrongly stepped on anybody's sacredness"

small detail of the original thing that made me hate wayne even more was fucking over deerhoof to do a song w/ kesha

The dog isn't our dog, the dog is a famous Instagram dog

Like I think I've mentioned before, I wrote this dude off after the bullshit he pulled with the Badu video, and now every new thing he says or tweets just further proves how much of an asshole he really is. Kind of a shame, since the last two Flaming Lips albums were the best they've done since the 90s.

wait what happened with Deerhoof?

Kliph says they were doing a song with Deerhoof for that "& Friends" thing, but it got bumped off the tracklist to make room for the Kesha song.

wayne seems like a real great guy who doesn't hold grudges

can't resist display name

too slow

That dog is a scapegoat

DAMMIT xp

heh, through this shit storm I have been gratified to learn that our beloved Dero wrote last year that he's VERY LET DOWN by the last Flaming Lips album. It seems that dero has not been betrayed by such abject crass commercialism since REM's Monster. They're more like a corporation than a band, you see… (my bad if this covered in one of the many Dero's a hack threads)…

http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2013-04/flaming-lips-drop-depressing-and-dismal-dud-106616

when Neil starts talking about The Ship of the Imagination on Cosmos, Wayne Coyne stares blankly, not understanding that it isn't a real ship

Man I just can't understand any Flaming Lips fan that considers Embryonic the start of some kind of decline, considering the terrible shitshow that came before it.

I'll keep the comments loose and ambiguous, but I had a cameraman buddy shooting the Cassavattes' son's last big pic in OK, and Lips dude was in a scene. He told a few stories how this unwashed, leather jeans wearin' fool would constantly show up, days on end, when he had no bidness bein' there, and would proceed to undermine camera techniques 'cause he was a pro that had done a few movies himself. My buddy just wanted to throttle him so badly.

Honestly, I'd choose Kesha over Deerhoof, too.

Taken from a Reddit AMA:

GrimyLittlePimp 3 points 2 days ago
What was it like working with Kliph Scurlock?
And how do you feel about all that... unpleasantness?

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GruffRhysVerified 3 points 2 days ago
Kliph is a genius! He's a great drummer, and the Flaming Lips a great band

I'll go with Gruff's take.

Man I just can't understand any Flaming Lips fan that considers Embryonic the start of some kind of decline, considering the terrible shitshow that came before it.

Most of their fans don't know any of the albums that came out prior to what, The Soft Bulletin? At War with the Mystics is like, they're favorite Flaming Lips record. They're usually 13-17 and also girls. Wayne can be seen posing with them regularly on Instagram...some might even be topless.

Oh yeah well girls what do they know about Flaming Lips albums.

I didn't mean it that way, but reading it back I sound terrible.

The Internet is hard.

Well then, feel free to clarify.

Wayne likes the ladies

that post was actually written by a famous Instagram dog

Wayne panders to teenage girls.

yah

And he seems to be using his art gallery to exploit pretty young girls.

that post was actually written by a famous Instagram dog

lols

What's with all the personal animosity toward Wayne here? I get that he might be an asshole – and he is clearly really, really pissed off in this article.

But unless I'm missing something, right now this seems like a lot of he-said/he said shit for people to be unloading on him the way they are.

idk didn't he just blame a dog for the fact that he was photographed wearing native headgear.

he said/dog said

he said/dog said

idk didn't he just blame a dog for the fact that he was photographed wearing native headgear.

I agree that going to RS is damage control – and poor damage control at that.

But "not a trustworthy person," "exploiting young girls" ... these are kind of serious accusations that seem to go beyond anger with him over this whole—weird—episode.

Again, maybe I'm lacking some important piece of context or evidence, but what makes Wayne such a dick?

I don't really know their music and read that interview because someone mailed me the link asking if i recognized certain behaviour , so I dont have any context or evidence. You say he sounds really pissed off in this article, but does that anger strike you as sincere, as in does he sound personally hurt or wounded by what has happened? To me he reads as someone who believes they are infallible and will not stand for any challenge to their perceived authority

"I regret that some people took it wrong"

by itself this doesnt always mean much, but its often a pretty big red flag for me, and in the context of this interview it says a lot. This is someone who is always right and will do whatever they want with no remorse or 2nd thought, and when they think they are caught out, will issue at best only this kind of non-apology that accepts no wrongdoing on their part

I dont know anything about this other than reading that interview (and havent even read the other guys thing), but that interview reads like the words of an incredibly manipulative person to me, but one that has misjudged how it will look on the page.

Obviously we can only judge for ourselves but i thought based solely on that interview showed a person I would be very wary about having in life. Does it matter, well not really for me, this type of music I never play!

I listened to half of The Terror yesterday. I found it pretty uninspired.

Clearly the ex-drummers fault.

this band used to be pretty cool, genuine love for much of it up through yoshimi, but ever since they turned into an erykah badu-baiting megaphone and beach ball day-glo coachella fodder act they've been pretty useless

Wayne Coyne comes across as kind of a dick really. It's probably partly because he's been happy to play the nice guy for the ten-plus years his band have had nothing but fawning critical goodwill, but the second he he's called out for doing something ill-advised or put under any kind of scrutiny he reacts incredibly badly.

people who have a happy go lucky good vibes public persona can never really keep it up forever, and the harder they try to maintain, the weirder it is when the veil drops. at some point shit is gonna get really ugly with Andrew W.K.

why is it gonna get really ugly with Andrew W.K.? the Steev Mike conspiracy has been floating around for years, but his reputation hasn't suffered too badly for it. "happy-go-lucky vibes dude turns out to be a manufactured popstar who doesn't party hard behind closed doors" is barely even newsworthy anymore, whereas "happy-go-lucky vibes dude turns out to be a vindictive, race-baiting asshole who steps all over his bandmates" is a justifiable cause for outrage. in Wayne's case people are calling him out because his behavior is malicious in a way that transcends simply failing to stay true to his public persona. I can't see Andrew WK coming under the same sort of fire unless it turns out he doesn't pay his songwriters or whatever; afaik none of the current accusations imply that he's done anything outright unethical.

I enjoy The Terror.

uh sorry unreg, comment rescinded i guess

When you read Kliph's Twitter, he just seems like some happy-go-lucky guy. I kind of used that as proof Wayne is full of shit, as that's pretty much his major argument against his old pal.

I would like to thank some dude and unregistered for the fantastic belly lol I just experienced

won't someone please think of Andrew WK?

Regardless of who said what, Wayne posted race-baiting photos of a dog in a head dress, ergo, he's an asshat.

We enjoy a good belly laugh