Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne talks about naked bike ride music video shoot
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips (Photo by Chris Landsberger/The Oklahoman Archives)
Oklahoma City music star Wayne Coyne, frontman of The Flaming Lips, recently talked to Billboard.com about plans for Wednesday’s naked bike ride music video shoot in Portland, Ore.
The Lips were set to shoot the video Wednesday (Sept. 23) for “Watching the Planets,” the last song from the band’s upcoming double-album “Embryonic.”
Prior to the shoot, the band was inviting fans to come to Portland’s Mt. Tabor and appear in the video – by riding bikes naked. According to Billboard, the nude bicyclists were to appear that they were emerging from one of Coyne’s trademark giant plastic bubbles covered in fake fox fur.
Coyne told Billboard he was inspired by stories of Portland’s record-breaking “World Naked Bike Ride,” an annual event where naked Pacific Northwesterners take advantage of the city’s decency laws, which permit non-exhibistionist nudity. Last summer’s event attracted more than 5,000 riders.
“I think I first heard about it on NPR,” Coyne told Billboard. “I first thought, ‘That’s preposterous,’ and then right away, ‘That would be good for a video.’”
Coyne told the trade publication that if the video shoot went as planned, the final product would be finished and edited in time for the Oct. 13 release of “Embryonic.”
Coyne also admitted to Billboard that he has a vagina fixation. According to Billboard, the Lips emerge out of gyrating video hips in the latest version of their stage extravaganza.
“I’m not sure exactly what it means,” Coyne told Billboard.com as he prepared for Wednesday’s video shoot. “But it has something to do with rebirth.”
Oklahoma fans will get a chance to see the Lips’ new stage spectacle when the band plays its New Year’s Eve Freakout #3 Dec. 31 at Oklahoma City’s Cox Convention Center. For tickets and information, go to www.coxconventioncenter.com.
The band also is planning its third annual “March of 1000 Flaming Skeletons” Halloween parade Oct. 24 in Oklahoma City on Oct. 24, an appearance at New Orleans’ “Voodoo Experience” festival, and a European tour in November.
On Tuesday, I’ll be bringing you a column about the numerous Oklahoma music stars, including the Lips, who have big-time CDs coming out this fall.
-BAM
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Just to say did enjoy the post, and now packing my bags for trip to Porland.
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