I was wondering when this time would come, they were really bound to cover one of these psychedelic Beatles songs,… I mean isn’t everything psychedelic for Wayne Coyne? The sky at sunrise, at sunset, the Lips’ record covers, bubble bath, his drawings, his house, and I am not even talking about the shows.
The Flaming Lips covered the Beatles’ ‘I am the Walrus’ at Oklaohoma City’s Pink Floor Studio, and you can watch the result below. It’s loud, heavy on the bass, guitar-free (?) and trippy with a part of originality that the band knows too well to bring. I am not sure why Steven Drozd is wearing this foil cover, as if he had been doing a long run, and why Wayne is shouting his vocals through this pink plastic thing, but the song is a strange one too when you think about it.
The Flaming Lips are about to do their big New Year Eve thing with Yoko Ono Plastic Band in Oklaohoma City, so this must be a sort of preparation for the show. And if you have ever doubted that the Beatles say ‘everybody smoke pot’ in the brouhaha at the end of the song, there is no more reason to doubt: