Gearmond wrote:more proof that the lips are the who of our, and the previous generation.
thats totally their version of Townsend's cornfield pedal, or whoever made it.
Except I enjoy the Who.
here fukking here!!! i am with you on that one big time.
I mean, every time I've listened to a Flaming Lips album (and I've done it several times, some forced onto me by friend's, some by my own will) it's never really caught my interest. I even saw them live one time. Just a lot of mehs. Oh well.
i would probably kill a small animal to see them live. and i'm a vegetarian.
mathias wrote:I heard that Tom Dalton read a book on how to grow online communities around your business. But he thought it was too much work so he just created a forum full of alts. You and I are the only real people.
i never got the Pink Floyd comparison other than "hey, stoners like 'em"
the lips haven't had one obscenely popular album based around the sounds of one track off of a previous album, then milked that for all its worth for the rest of their career.
they have decade-ish long phases and their influence runs so deep, you never really notice it. hence The Who
mathias wrote:I heard that Tom Dalton read a book on how to grow online communities around your business. But he thought it was too much work so he just created a forum full of alts. You and I are the only real people.
Gearmond wrote:i never got the Pink Floyd comparison other than "hey, stoners like 'em"
the lips haven't had one obscenely popular album based around the sounds of one track off of a previous album, then milked that for all its worth for the rest of their career.
they have decade-ish long phases and their influence runs so deep, you never really notice it. hence The Who
Watch your mouth I am going to a Roger Waters gig tomorrow With my dad
I want a giant bunny and I want a bunch of regular bunnies and they will form a hive mind and the giant bunny will be the queen bunny and they will attack in swarms.
unownunown wrote:woah, you mehed at a flaming lips live?
i would probably kill a small animal to see them live. and i'm a vegetarian.
I saw them live in 1989 in a really small bar in Iowa that no longer exists. They came on stage really late and played for maybe 45 minutes. It sounded like everything was routed through a fuzz pedal (kind of like a Superfuzz or something) and every once in a while somebody must have stomped a pedal and the fuzz got fuzzier. When I say everything was routed through the fuzz pedal I mean everything. It was very loud and they did not talk to or interact with the audience at all.
+1 for Flaming Lips. +1 for The Who. Saw the Flaming Lips a few times back in the 90's and slept through them more than once. Oops. Love the records though. I was just mad tired. Hahahhaa.
Also - why is this pedal so f'n complicated???? Who's gonna use all of that in one pedal?
i was lucky enough to get to open for the lips for 2 nights in london and i don't understand how anyone could NOT be into their stage show... at least they're trying something different!
i've never been the biggest fan, but i dig their jams enough - live, though... a whole other experience. they put a lot of work into that stuff and the best part about them is that their entire crew and everyone involved with them is pretty much from the same town in oklahoma. they roll with their homeys and i just think that's really awesome.
With my dad 
at least they're trying something different! 