Flaming Lips tour

discostu · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:27 am

Two dates of note:

5/18/11
Nashville, TN
Ryman

5/19/11
Atlanta, GA
Tabernacle - performing The Soft Bulletin (my favorite record of all time)
I JUST BOUGHT TICKETS TO THIS SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fri 05/13/11 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit
Appearing at "Nelsonville Music Festival"
Sat 05/14/11 Nelsonville, OH Robbins Crossing @ Hocking College
Sun 05/15/11 Richmond, VA The National
Thu 05/19/11 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
Appearing at "The Hangout Beach, Music And Arts Festival" / Umphrey's McGee
Sat 05/21/11 Gulf Shores, AL Gulf Shores Public Beach
Appearing at "San Miguel Primavera Sound" / Belle & Sebastian
Thu 05/26/11 Barcelona, Spain Parc del Forum
Appearing at "Sasquatch! Music Festival"
Sun 05/29/11 Quincy, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
Fri 07/01/11 London, United Kingdom Alexandra Palace
Thu 07/07/11 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
Fri 07/08/11 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

I wish they would remember that they were a band before that album.

discostu · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:15 am

I think they tried to with Embryonic, and that was an unfortunate misstep.

Cupcakes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:04 am **Posts:** 3271

I wish Radiohead would replicate something similar to "The Bends", like I wish the Flaming Lips would replicate something similar to "The Clouds Taste Metallic". Seems like a point in time that no one wants to revisit (1995?); but it's the best either had to offer.
Solid albums that neither has come anywhere close. But if you can still sell sunday-afternoon jerkoff jam-session shit to stagnant drugged-out tardos to pay off your property, I'd be all over that too.

He gets it.

//digression

toots · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:01 pm

i am making tentative plans to attend the ATL show

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:42 pm

discostu Wrote:

I think they tried to with Embryonic, and that was an unfortunate misstep.

Prior to the last time I put that album on a few days ago, I might have disagreed with you, but now I think I have to admit that you're right. It was no more a misstep than anything else they did in the '00s, though, IMO.

The last three Lips albums have evaporated any desire I once had to see them live. And I've seen them twice, anyway, once on tour for The Soft Bulletin at the 40 Watt.

And that was a great show. As cool as it would probably be to see them play just that album, I liked how they played a couple of songs from Clouds and one from Zaireeka back when I first saw them. Some of those Soft Bulletin songs aren't too exciting live.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:47 pm

Jerkass Wrote:

I wish Radiohead would replicate something similar to "The Bends", like I wish the Flaming Lips would replicate something similar to "The Clouds Taste Metallic". Seems like a point in time that no one wants to revisit (1995?); but it's the best either had to offer.
Solid albums that neither has come anywhere close.

//digression

I'll second both of these opinions.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:55 pm

I agree that CTM is the best Lips album, but I don't think they're capable of going back to that. Even if they got Ronald Jones back in the band and put Steven back on drums, I just don't think they have that in them.

I shouldn't, but I get kind of annoyed when people make these "Radiohead needs to get back to the sound of The Bends" type of posts. It's not their best album. However, it would be great if they'd drop all the electronic shit for once and make a really simple, stripped down record. I think they could make one that sounds nothing at all like The Bends, and it could still be great. They've developed a lot as musicians since then, and I really wish they didn't feel like they had to dress everything up in futuristic sounds to stay current. They already did that. They're great musicians all around, and they should make an album that isn't such a fussed-over studio project. Do some live-in-studio first take shit. I know they could do it.

seafoam · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:01 pm

Jerkass Wrote:

I wish Radiohead would replicate something similar to "The Bends", like I wish the Flaming Lips would replicate something similar to "The Clouds Taste Metallic". Seems like a point in time that no one wants to revisit (1995?); but it's the best either had to offer.
Solid albums that neither has come anywhere close. But if you can still sell sunday-afternoon jerkoff jam-session shit to stagnant drugged-out tardos to pay off your property, I'd be all over that too.

He gets it.
//digression

agree,

I bought Embryonic a few days ago cause it was cheap and I thought I might be missing something. All I can say is maybe a few good songs, more of the same from the last several albums. And, while I still like Soft Bulletin, there's a vibe on the Clouds/Transmissions albums that's more loose, a captured energy rather than a made up one.

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

yeah im torn over the ryman show, i think ill go just cause you never know

discostu · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:18 pm

Patrick Wrote:

yeah im torn over the ryman show, i think ill go just cause you never know

I just plopped down $115 for two tix to the Tab show, so I'm going to miss the Ryman show.

wenchlette · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:06 pm

they toured here last summer and even though i'm only a casual fan i was disappointed i had to miss it

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i'm not so interested in them making new music like those old albums, but in the four times I've seen them play they've played ONE song pre soft bulletin. And it was "she don't use jelly."

robotboy · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:10 pm

yeah if there was a tour around CTM id be all over it

mutty · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:30 pm

I am seriously thinking about tying a visit to my brother in Nashville around this... I like to time my visits around the Ryman schedule.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

I might be alone on this, but the second half of Transmission always reminded me of side two of Abbey Road. Not as many songs running into each other but it builds and fades and builds back in a similar way.

Sex, Drugs, and Dave · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:02 pm

Ima comin with ya stu!

discostu · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:22 pm

Sex, Drugs, and Dave Wrote:

Ima comin with ya stu!

Cool. I haven't seen a full Lips show since 2003. I tried to watch them cover Dark Side... last year at Bonnaroo but I was so far back I could never get fully involved in the show.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:45 pm

Not included in the above dates is that they are coming to Charlotte on May 17. I am pumped.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

jewels santana Wrote:

i'm not so interested in them making new music like those old albums, but in the four times I've seen them play they've played ONE song pre soft bulletin. And it was "she don't use jelly."

i saw them two years ago and they played "bad days" and "mountain side." i have come to realize that was a rare night.

so, are all of the dates above the soft bulletin in full?

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i'd kill to see "bad days"

Dalen · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:57 pm

snoresville

posthumus · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:17 am **Posts:** 589

Saw them here in Dallas last month. Best show I have ever been to. Shit was flying everywhere. Giant video screen with porn in the background. He rolled around in a ball! Gimmicky but amazing!

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