Last night, a bunch of us watch Fearless Freaks, the Flaming Lips documentary, at the building where Ben’s studio is. He managed to score a projector, so it was almost like we were watching at the movies. This documentary really delivered, from lots of footage of Wayne growing up and interviews with his family, to the history of the band from their fuzzed out psychedelic punk rock days until now. It was funny seeing little parts of Tarbox Road Studios in the documentary and Dave Fridmann briefly on screen. I’m inspired to re-listen to a lot of their records today. The first Flaming Lips album I heard was In a Priest Driven Ambulance as a cassette in 1994. Later that year, when my friend dragged me with her and a bunch of other people to Lollapalooza, I was insistent on seeing them play the side stage and was completely blown away. I bought the 4cd Zaireeka the week it came out and then attempted to figure out how I was going to synchronize all 4 discs to play at once on separate systems. I saw them when they came to Philadelphia on the boom box experiment tour that was more or less their Zaireeka tour. The crowd was much less sparse than when I saw them on the Soft Bulletin tour. I was excited to score a couple of copies of Telepathic Surgery LPs in Umea, Sweden for 15 kroner, the equivalent of $1.50 and they were still sealed in mint condition.
I’m finalizing the gatefold jacket design for Saxon Shore’s The Exquisite Death LP tonight, along with a couple of poster design, a postcard, and a t-shirt. All should be ready in time for their late August tour dates.
Neumu has a fairly detailed piece on Bosque Brown here. Go and find out more about Mara’s childhood and influences.
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