“We didn’t know if we’d ever get another chance to play in a cemetery so we thought we would make the most of this…”
-Wayne Coyne’s “Do You Realize, Morning Rendition” banter, June 15, 2011 at sunrise
When Wayne Coyne first tweeted this video of himself at The Alcove of Devotion inside Hollywood Forever Cemetery in February – noting he was “Gonna try and do a Flaming Lips show there” – the idea of The Flaming Lips actually playing in this graveyard almost seemed too weird to be true – even by Flaming Lips standards. But alas, by early April he had a psychedelic poster circling the web announcing not just “a Flaming Lips show there” but three of them… over “two nights, one morning”…
The two nights were self-explanatory: first their own classic, The Soft Bulletin, then Pink Floyd’s classic, Dark Side of the Moon. But what was “the morning”?
And what did it have to do with a bell tower and Edward Sharpe…
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