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Flaming Lips played CMAC w/ Black Keys, Letterman (videos)

Wayne Coyne & bear @ Terminal 5 (more by Vincent Cornelli)
Flaming Lips

Right before NYC got two Flaming Lips/Fang Island shows (Summerstage & Terminal 5) and three by the Black Keys (Summerstage, Summerstage, Terminal 5), all three bands played one show at CMAC, the Bowery Presents-booked venue near Rochester…

“Patrick Carney (drums) and Dan Auerbach (guitar/vocals) held their own through a high-energy, in-your-face performance that included favorites like “I Got Mine” off the album “Attack and Release.” The duo filled the amphitheater with ear-pounding precision despite looking a little lonely on the huge stage for most of the set. The crowd responded jubilantly to the Keys’ classic style and the band fed off the upbeat vibe, funneling its stripped-down sound all the way out to the lost lawn dwellers.

But The Flaming Lips, a band known for its ridiculous stage antics, was in a league of its own. The band was birthed on to the stage, emerging from a projected 30-foot vagina. Wayne Coyne, looking much like a fetus in a growing uterus, slowly stood up within a huge, plastic sphere that he called a “spaceball” and rolled his way through the pavilion on the hands of fans during the opening track, “Worm Mountain.” The only word that came to mind was “epic.”” [Rochester City Newspaper]

Last night, Wednesday, July 28th, the Flaming Lips followed their three NY shows with another appearance on Letterman. It was at least their fourth. Videos of all four (including “Vaseline” in 1995!) below…


Flaming Lips – “See The Leaves” 7/28/2010 Letterman

The Flaming Lips – Yeah Yeah Yeah Song on Letterman another time

Flaming Lips – Do You Realize?? on Letterman another time

She Don’t Use Jelly – “Vaseline” – Flaming Lips – Letterman 1995