All Photos taken by Palmer Sather
The Flaming Lips show at Marymoor last Friday was everything I hoped it would be and more. Once again Wayne Coyne and crew created another visually spectacular experience that was equal parts circus and acid flashback. The show was very similar to their headlining set at Sasquatch in 2008 sans the huge UFO, the Teletubbies who lined the stage, and the topless dancing women. This go around I guess you could say the stage show was a little more (or less?) stripped down with no giant UFO or topless women. The show did feature an opening sequence on the big screen that featured an animated naked dancing woman who eventually sat spread eagle with a bright glowing vagina that grew to fill the entire screen. The parents next to me covered their daughter’s eyes, which was pretty amusing. The Flaming Lips also sprayed the crowd with just as much confetti and giant balloons as always. Wayne was up to his usual shenanigans; he crowd surfed in the giant hamster ball, shot plenty of confetti with his arsenal of confetti guns, and even performed a song riding on the shoulders of a gorilla. The set list was full of fan favorites such as “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song”, “Fight Test”, and “Yoshimi Versus the Pink Robots”. They even broke out a song from their soon to be released double album “Embryonic”. “Convinced of the Hex” was very impressive live and was highlighted with heavy use of the smoke machine. Wayne also was very talkative mentioning how happy he was that Obama was in office and that every time he sees his face on TV it basically blows his mind that he is our president, at one point he even mentioned that the Flaming Lips opened for the Melvins their first time in Seattle; which would have been something crazy! Overall The Flaming Lips put on a hell of a show, just like I knew they would. They are just so damn much fun!
Did any of you go last Friday, I want to hear your thoughts on either this last show or a previous one. I know there are people out there who saw The Flaming Lips at Moe's back in the day. Please share, Cheers!
One last side note: once again all photos were taken by my brother in law Palmer Sather, his tenacity can be viewed below in the slideshow.
Set List (pretty close anyway):
1. Intro
2. Race for the Prize
3. Silver Trembling Hands
4. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
5. Fight Test
6. Bad Days
7. Enthusiasm for Life
8. Convinced of the Hex
9. Vein of Stars
10. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
11. Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung
12. The W.A.N.D.
13. She Don't Use Jelly
Encore:
14. Do You Realize??
Don't you just love them live? It's like being at a massive party that everyone was excited to get the invite to. I will always remember my first Yoshimi live performance and that I got whacked in the head by a 15 foot bouncy ball. All in good fun.
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