Video: Flaming Lips play “Do You Realize??” with Edward Sharpe and Magnetic Zeroes at Hollywood Cemetery
Last month, Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips played two shows at the Hollywood Forever cemetery next to the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood. We’re finally getting a glimpse of those shows with this video of the Lips playing Oklahoma’s state rock song “Do You Realize??” with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.
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 chatted with Lips frontman Wayne Coyne prior to the June 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.
Wiley Wayne had something special in mind for “Do You Realize??,” and from the looks of the video, his grand plans came to fruition quite nicely.
“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?”
The video was shot by the folks at Oklahoma City-based Delo Creative.
-BAM
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