God, this interview is just.... the answer to every question always ends with 2-3 sentences of him just bashing their old drummer. Ugh
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 May 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
Well, this bit:
I had a lot of friends there. I thought [Pink Pony] making fun of the protestors seemed stupid. I thought their music was stupid. I thought their attitude was wrong. And I just thought, "Why don't you just go out there and play your music, tell them you're sorry and play some cool music, and that would be what the festival is about?" And Pink Pony handled it badly. I agree with all that.But she's still my friend who I'm not going to throw away. I'm not going to jump on and say, "Well, now that I realize that you handle social media badly, you can't be my friend." She's still my friend. She's young. And I think she's very sorry that it all happened, and that whatever she said exploded into this thing. I think there's a lot of regret. I left because I just didn't think it was very good. But then to hear that they were making fun of people, and people probably got too drunk, I thought it was bad.
But she's still my friend who I'm not going to throw away. I'm not going to jump on and say, "Well, now that I realize that you handle social media badly, you can't be my friend." She's still my friend. She's young. And I think she's very sorry that it all happened, and that whatever she said exploded into this thing. I think there's a lot of regret. I left because I just didn't think it was very good. But then to hear that they were making fun of people, and people probably got too drunk, I thought it was bad.
― Mark G, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
But when Kliph apparently handles social media badly, out he goes.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
He's not a 27 year old young girl..
― Mark G, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
RMDE. Wayne seems to have learned a lot from Amanda Palmer.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 May 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
So the Native American protestors were upset that she was bad at using social media?
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
Didn't he post a pic of himself and his dog or something with headdresses?
Anyway, Wayne Coyne is not someone you look at and think that he is in any way a trustworthy person
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
Wayne Coyne is not someone you look at and think that he is in any way a trustworthy person
^otm
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
Apparently the dog is a famous Instagram dog whose schtick is to sport items of clothing associated with people or groups the owner respects. Ah so that's alright then... Too little too late. Wayne acting the innocent over the headdress incident... even if he wasn't aware of the significance, the first thing he should have done after his pal being called out on it was to try and understand why people had a problem with it, not post a photo taunting his critics. Similar pattern to the Erykah Badu spat. She tells him to kiss her glittery ass, he posts a photo of his glittery lips. Real grown up! Yet he talks about young people who don't know any better. FFS, Christina Fallin is 27, not some daft teenager.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Has the band settled on a new drummer?Well, there's two guys. I think we're going to use two different guys. Who is the guy that plays with Radiohead and Portishead?
oh jeez
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
"The only reason he knows anything about Native American issues is he's trying to join this group that I think their family is Native American. But I don't even want to speak about the hate, you know. I don't have any hate for him."
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
"...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."
Yes, we wouldn't want that.
― mike a, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
He knows we struggled with him for years and it didn't occur to us that it seemed that significantThe only world where this makes sense is a world where At War With the Mystics is a better album than Embryonic or The Terror. Fuck this, at least you could try and put on a good face and acknowledge the two albums you made w him were the best you had done in years. But yeah instead of trying to be the bigger man and be positive, this interview is 90% shit talking.― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, May 9, 2014 8:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The only world where this makes sense is a world where At War With the Mystics is a better album than Embryonic or The Terror. Fuck this, at least you could try and put on a good face and acknowledge the two albums you made w him were the best you had done in years. But yeah instead of trying to be the bigger man and be positive, this interview is 90% shit talking.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, May 9, 2014 8:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agreed- if you have to hire 2 drummers to replace your previous one, he was more than a little significant.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
Kliph and others were upset that you Instagrammed the photo of your three friends and the dog in headdresses. Do you regret that now?
I regret that some people took it wrong, and yeah. The dog isn't our dog, the dog is a famous Instagram dog that we happened to be in the presence of – Mayor B is an Instagram dog. And he wears everything. He only wears things that obviously his owners must think are cool. One of them is a John Lennon New York shirt with glasses. I don't think Mayor B is saying, "Look how stupid and hateful I am" to John Lennon.
this fucking guy
― some dude, Friday, 9 May 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
blaming the dog, classic
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
I regret that some people took it wrong = yeah you and Rand Paul, dude.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
the kicker:
I don't publicly ever say it, but I live in a neighborhood that was predominantly Native American in the late Seventies and Eighties. I haven't done it publicly, but there's cases of me helping Native Americans.
THERE'S CASES.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
dogs: fully in control of what they wear
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
Yep, still sayin', "fuck this guy".
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
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."
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
god that shit sounds so cool
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
"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."
― do you know what the bible says about our feet? (Karl Malone), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
wtf kind of clause is "if we wrongly stepped on anybody's sacredness"
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
small detail of the original thing that made me hate wayne even more was fucking over deerhoof to do a song w/ kesha
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
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.
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
wait what happened with Deerhoof?
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
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.
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
wayne seems like a real great guy who doesn't hold grudges
― ....... (waterface), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
can't resist display name
― famous Instagram dog (sleeve), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
too slow
― famous instagram dog (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
That dog is a scapegoat
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
DAMMIT xp
― sleeve, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
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
― veronica moser, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― famous instagram Dog (Karl Malone), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
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.
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
Honestly, I'd choose Kesha over Deerhoof, too.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
Taken from a Reddit AMA:
GrimyLittlePimp 3 points 2 days agoWhat was it like working with Kliph Scurlock?And how do you feel about all that... unpleasantness?permalinksavereportgive goldreplyGruffRhysVerified 3 points 2 days agoKliph is a genius! He's a great drummer, and the Flaming Lips a great band
permalinksavereportgive goldreplyGruffRhysVerified 3 points 2 days agoKliph is a genius! He's a great drummer, and the Flaming Lips a great band
I'll go with Gruff's take.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
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.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah well girls what do they know about Flaming Lips albums.
― carl agatha, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
I didn't mean it that way, but reading it back I sound terrible.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
The Internet is hard.
Well then, feel free to clarify.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
Wayne likes the ladies
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
that post was actually written by a famous Instagram dog
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
Wayne panders to teenage girls.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
yah
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
And he seems to be using his art gallery to exploit pretty young girls.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
lols
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link