Flaming Lips playing 2nd Hollywood Forever cemetery show tonight
The Flaming Lips (Photo by J. Michelle Martin-Coyne)
Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips will play the second of two shows planned at the Hollywood Forever cemetery next to the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood.
In addition to housing to the bodies of legendary stars like Cecil B. DeMille, Johnny Ramone, John Huston, Bugsy Siegel and Fay Wray, Hollywood Forever also serves as an outdoor film venue, art exhibitor and concert venue, according to the Los Angeles Times, which recently chatted with Lips frontman Wayne Coyne about the shows.
“It’s got a lot of appeal to it, especially for us,” lead singer Wayne Coyne told the L.A. Times on the phone from the band’s Oklahoma City headquarters, “because we sing a lot about this idea of ‘death’ — this idea of happiness and the realization of death, and what do we do with that? So there are a lot of great, powerful themes that you can play into as far as what it means to do all this stuff.”
The band was planning to perform two classic albums, the Lips’ own “The Soft Bulletin” and Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon,” on successive nights Tuesday and tonight. The Lips debuted both those album concerts in successive years here in OKC at their annual New Year’s Eve Freakout.
“They said, ‘Wayne, you can use anything here you want to do the show. They showed me the bell tower, and your mind immediately goes to some, ‘Of course, the Flaming Lips could do something.’ You kind of think of it as like the way that John and Yoko did the bed-in for peace — and people would just show up and we do this great rendition of ‘Do You Realize?’ while the sun comes up and everybody’s taking acid or something. I thought, why don’t we try?”
Read more about what Wayne and Co. plans to try tonight in Hollywood by clicking here.
-BAM
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