Stardeath and White Dwarfs talk about what they owe The Flaming Lips
Stardeath and White Dwarfs
The Flaming Lips
In an interesting interview with the London Times, Dennis Coyne, frontman of Oklahoma City experimental rockers Stardeath and White Dwarfs, talks about what his band owes to fellow Oklahoma City-based rockers The Flaming Lips.
Of course, Dennis Coyne is the nephew of the Flaming Lips’ frontman Wayne Coyne, and before forming Stardeath, he was a roadie and “bubble tech” for the Lips.
“When they were shooting the cover for their first EP, my dad brought me along, as he was taking some of those pictures,” Dennis, who was 18 months old when they shot the art for the Lips’ 1984 debut, told the Times. “I’d be riding my bike as they practised for their first shows at the back of the office-furniture business my grandparents used to own.”
His father, Kenny, raised him after his mother left when he was 4, Dennis Coyne told the newspaper.
“My dad is one of the greatest guys in the world, and so is Wayne. He’s such a great artist and great uncle that I can’t imagine it not influencing every decision I’ve made,” he told the Times.
The Times also talked to Wayne Coyne, referred to in the story as “the eccentric uncle figure for a whole generation of experimental American rock acts,” about the Lips’ double-album “Embryonic,” due out next week.
“Some of it, I can’t believe it’s us playing. We didn’t do it with discipline, professionalism and skill, we did it like drug addicts — although we’re not drug addicts — playing music as if we were going to throw it all away,” says of “Embryonic.”
-BAM
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