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I like GWAR – I never liked their music very much I like them as people – their music never had an emotional impact on me. QRO: Kind of reminds me of GWAR ( QRO spotlight on)…
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Our guys – they know how to do Flaming Lips stuff they don’t do anything else, but they know how to do that… QRO: ‘Cause you bring your own stage crew… You do these big things so people that are forty yards away still have something to look at. There’s a lot of organizing that makes it happen, so that you can see it, otherwise you can’t set it up. So that’s a big deal, ‘cause, you know, they invite you to play – a lot of times, a festival is not set up that you can come in early in the morning and do all this stuff you just have to do it. But my guys know how to put it up, tear it down – most people are still taking down amplifiers and drums. We have this sort of show we can set it up…Īs big as our show is, these guys, sometimes they tear that thing down, set it up and tear it down in thirty minutes! That’s the thing that separates us from all the other groups, is that we have the stuff, and it’s ours we can do whatever we want with it.
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But again, it’s the dilemma – a lot of the places that we play, they’re not that big, and so you get into this quagmire of you have to bring your own stage, just boring things, like, ‘This would be cool, but…’We try to be as pragmatic as we can, so we can play everywhere. But the UFO would be too much, and we didn’t quite do it enough to get it real streamlined.Īnd we wanted to get a bigger version of it – the version we had is only like thirty feet, and we wanted to get like a seventy-foot version. The dilemma is, the way that we play festivals usually is we can go in the morning and set everything up, and then, when we get done at the end of the night, we can tear that down and be out of there in four or five hours. It took a long time to set up, and it took a long time to tear down. QRO: Are you ever going to bring back the UFO? We’re doing what we like, so if we want to come out of this giant, forty-foot woman spreading her legs, and we come out of her vag, and are born onto the stage, well, we’ll do it. The main reason is that we like it, and even if we felt like some people, in their opinion, it overshadowed the show…Well, I don’t give a shit. I think we have a lot of reasons that we do it. But I think with us, it’s like, ‘You don’t have to like their music – just go and be part of it.’ And then I think we gain quite a few fans, from them saying, “Well, I really liked it, once I was there.” Instead of it just being like, ‘If you like their music, go see them’ – which happens to a lot of groups if you like their music, go see them. Do you want to go with me?” You’d be like, “Nah, I don’t want to go.” But because we have this show, it’d be like, “You want to go with me?” “I don’t want to go.” Dude – even if you don’t know their music, you need to go, because it’ll be an experience…”Īnd so I think that’s what’s really widened it for us. If we didn’t have this type of show, I think people would say, “Hey, I’m going to see The Flaming Lips. I think to be known for this bigger show is always drawing people in. ‘Cause we do play shows, couple a year, anyway, where we don’t use it, and those sometimes would go just as good as the ones that we use it on.īut I would think that it’s an accumulated effect, though. QRO: Do you ever worry that the stage show overshadows the music? I think it’s completely overkill, though – I’ll be the first to admit, ‘Oh, we don’t need that…’ We’ve played little places where we’ve done all the junk, too. Playing is enough for something like this, ‘cause there’s cameras – they’re seeing your face, and your fingers, your motions and stuff… And you want to include everybody in that, so we started to work doing bigger things, and little-by-little I think it’s gotten to where I think we’re pretty good at doing, not mega things – we’re pretty good at like five-to-ten thousand area I think we’d need more stuff after that.īut when we do something like this, we just play. I think that’s mostly why – We started the bigger things ‘cause we were playing big festivals we were playing these giant festivals in England, and the crowd goes on for half a mile. When you’re doing something like this, where there’s like a thousand people, maybe, everybody’s really getting the same intensity. The stage show, it’s meant to be at a bigger place, playing to sometimes ten thousand people.