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i would say it was one of the best shows i've ever seen! i dont care if wayne was chatty. i ended up having a great spot and all the people around me were just as much into the show as i was. plus, i got to touch wayne in his ball! hehe i was excited for the show... but every thing about it went wayyy beyond what i expected!
I like it when the performers have something to say to the crowd, actually. I like concerts where I'm brought into the world of the performer rather than just listening to really loud music.
Post by oklarooer737 on Jul 16, 2007 3:47:13 GMT -5
Ok, now that ive read every post on this lips thread, time for my little rant.
First off I come all the way from Oklahoma to vist bonnaroo for my 3rd year in a row. So i was shocked and furiated to see my 1000 glowsticks I purchased for the Flaming Lips Bonnaroo set, CONFISCATED!!!!! yes you read correct. MY GLOWSTICKS WERE TAKEN FROM ME!!! (and they were actually taken from my car at the checkpoint going into the campgrounds!!!!! is this not the most ridiculous bullshit Ive ever seen/heard?) How can they take glowsticks from you going into the campground area? I saw a guy dragging a big trashcan FULL of jim beam because glass is not allowed!how does he get in with that and my $100+ worth of glowsticks gets taken. That happening right at the start, just about ruined my 3rd Bonnaroo immediately. I drive 900 miles to see all these great bands and see my HOMETOWN BAND (THE LIPS, they are from OKC also) and this happens. this was my 3rd lips show in a year (one more to go on july 27th in Tulsa, OK.) At every show ive been to Wayne does talk alot, but thats just wayne being wayne. and yes he doents have the greatest voice (he never had the greatest voice to begin with), that is why the theatrics of their show is on such a grand scale. also thats why wayne tries to get you "mother fuckers" (as he calls everyone at every show, and says that everyone in the back is just drinking and smoking pot) singing along. He wants to get everyone involved and to "have a whole experience together" as he says. and that is exactly what he wants to do. he even tries to reach people in the back of the crowd, what do you think the 2000 lbs of confetti is for? or the lights and lazers, people dancing onstage in alien and santa and hero costumes, the UFO, and the new screen to match the NEW UFO and etc,etc, etc.... From the beginning they have tried to do crazy shit onstage. They used to burnout a dirtbike onstage, to fill the room with smoke. Light the cymbals on fire and bash the hell outta them. Then they did the Parking lot experiment which led to zaireeka, and well hell just watch the Fearless freaks dvd. That will explain. True the audio is crap, away from the center area of the stage, but you cant blame the lips for it. thats bonnaroo's problem.
Anyway so I decided to buy 1000 glowsticks to add to the experience at bonnaroo, but they get confiscated. plus I met wayne the week before at the premire of the OKC Homecoming Lips show @ the Zoo DVD (Im in it, by the way.) and I told wayne that Id be at bonnaroo front and center (which I was) and I also told him about the 1000 glowsticks that I planned on bringing to livin up the experience even more. Too bad they were taken. Kinda feel like I let him down. but anyways. i ramble.
First off we missed the Police all together to see them. oh well I heard they blew ass anyways and somehow I was able to smuggle in my videocamera, so I was pretty siked. So we waited for the lips for 4 hours, even cleaned up the right side of the stage standing area to sit there. There was a group of about 300 of us waiting. We had sing alongs (which I take some credit for starting) I was the guy dyed blue if anyone near me is reading this. but yeah, sing alongs, the hokey pokey, and singing happy birthday to Kliph. Yes i know that they did that during the show, (which they also did at Coachella and Roo 03) but while waiting for them, this girl reminded me that it was his birthday as he was soundchecking his drums. So I got everyone in the area to sing him happy birthday. He came down ad thanked us and returned backstage.
I then began the lips singalongs. including jelly, the spark, and a few others. I started singing Brainville, but nooone knew what i was singing. boo. so I sang another that everyone knew, then while seting up his keyboards; steven yells in my direction "sing something we don't play!" I again try to sing brainville, then tried Psychiatric explorations of the fetus with needlesl; but again no help from my "temporary familiy" so we started bohemium rhapsody.
so the show starts early with "war pigs" soundcheck which was awesome. Then wayne says something about the OKC ZOO DVD coming out july 24th; and looks in my direction and says " It a great show, and this blue guy with the polka dotted hat; right here up front is in the dvd as well." I just about shit my pants at that point. Being talked about by one of your favorite bands, in front of (by that time) atleast 20,000 people is a rush! By this time Im ready for the show to fully start. and it goes off without a hitch. They actually played a bunch of songs that Ive never seen them play. Tapsmir (the taps/zepplin loop), mountainside, moonlight mile, Fight Test, Waiting For a Superman, Pompeii AM Gotterdammerung, What is the Light?, and the observer. Great set. The crowd around me loved it, I loved it. OH and! after the show i went up to the stage to try and get a setlist. Someone told me that all the dancers on side of the stage took them. I was kinda bummed. Then Kliph came back out on stage for something and I yelled to him "KLIPH! Can I have a drumstick?" He said "Sure." and came down off the stage onto the speakers and hands me his drumstick and says"Thanks for getting them to sing happy birthday." Now THAT is the way to end that show. Maybe i had a little different experience than most, but that was my story and my little rant on one of my favorite shows of the weekend.
can someone tell me what the girl was doing when wayne told stephen "that girl by you is a freak" and stephen is like "yea im keepin an eye on her" every time i listen to the show i think to myself what could this girl be doing at a lips concert to have wayne say that she is a freak.
can someone tell me what the girl was doing when wayne told stephen "that girl by you is a freak" and stephen is like "yea im keepin an eye on her" every time i listen to the show i think to myself what could this girl be doing at a lips concert to have wayne say that she is a freak.
Post by cory's beard on Jul 26, 2007 12:36:35 GMT -5
Hey oklarooer, I do believe that is your hand and video camera on the first page.
Anyway, I'm not sure if I've said this anywhere else on the forum, but this was the best show I have ever seen... period. I actually hadn't even really heard a single Flaming Lips song before that moment since I don't really listen to the radio.
Ween was the whole reason I came to Bonnaroo though. And after Ween, I didn't possibly think I was going to see another amazing show. All of my friends, though, were huge FLips fans and continuously told me not to miss it. I said "maybe if I'm not exhausted at that point I'll check it out from the back." I then told them I would meet up with them after The Police.
Come time for The Police, I got utterly bored of them after like two songs, and then I decided meander over to Which Stage to see an already lively crowd. This intrigued me. I walk over and meet some of the coolest people I met at the whole 'Roo. When they heard that I was a first time listener. They practically held me prisoner, and I'm really thankful that they did. I wound up ditching my friends to see and hear what would become one of my favorite bands for the first time practically up front (like ten or fifteen rows of people back). That show was practically a religious experience for me.
Never before have I gone from never hearing a band before to them being one of my absolute favorites. The music, the spectacle, and everything in between was just perfect to me. Even when Wayne was simply talking I was connecting with every message relayed--about the war, about the human condition, about happiness, about being subject to one another. And I realize that people have different expectations and desires of a concert, but it saddens me that people can't press pause on the music to listen to a little bit of what's on the artist's mind. I think it adds to the live experience. I think it adds more insight into who the artist is and why he or she created the artwork.
Anyway, there was a whole unity about this show. Between person and person, between band and crowd, amongst all of us. That is why the show was amazing to me.
Here's a video of the Bohemian Rhapsody, oklarooer. Sorry about the crappy compression and large filesize. But I figured you'd like to see this, even though it lacks the really cool moment that I mentioned in the other thread.
Post by lordrockinhood on Jul 26, 2007 12:42:27 GMT -5
explicitkarma said:
Hey oklarooer, I do believe that is your hand and video camera on the first page.
Anyway, I'm not sure if I've said this anywhere else on the forum, but this was the best show I have ever seen... period. I actually hadn't even really heard a single Flaming Lips song before that moment since I don't really listen to the radio.
Ween was the whole reason I came to Bonnaroo though. And after Ween, I didn't possibly think I was going to see another amazing show. All of my friends, though, were huge FLips fans and continuously told me not to miss it. I said "maybe if I'm not exhausted at that point I'll check it out from the back." I then told them I would meet up with them after The Police.
Come time for The Police, I got utterly bored of them after like two songs, and then I decided meander over to Which Stage to see an already lively crowd. This intrigued me. I walk over and meet some of the coolest people I met at the whole 'Roo. When they heard that I was a first time listener. They practically held me prisoner, and I'm really thankful that they did. I wound up ditching my friends to see and hear what would become one of my favorite bands for the first time practically up front (like ten or fifteen rows of people back). That show was practically a religious experience for me.
Never before have I gone from never hearing a band before to them being one of my absolute favorites. The music, the spectacle, and everything in between was just perfect to me. Even when Wayne was simply talking I was connecting with every message relayed--about the war, about the human condition, about happiness, about being subject to one another. And I realize that people have different expectations and desires of a concert, but it saddens me that people can't press pause on the music to listen to a little bit of what's on the artist's mind. I think it adds to the live experience. I think it adds more insight into who the artist is and why he or she created the artwork.
Anyway, there was a whole unity about this show. Between person and person, between band and crowd, amongst all of us. That is why the show was amazing to me.
Here's a video of the Bohemian Rhapsody, oklarooer. Sorry about the crappy compression and large filesize. But I figured you'd like to see this, even though it lacks the really cool moment that I mentioned in the other thread.
;D