Flaming Lips at First Avenue (ticket stub)
Minneapolis (03/11/2000)
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Again, I primarily went to this show because of the opening band, Looper. I am a huge Belle & Sebastian fan, so I followed the related bands quite closely.
Looper was B&S' bassist Stuart David and his wife, Karn, long before that science fiction movie.
Impossible Things #1
Sub Pop
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I've actually seen Looper as headliner before at the 400 Bar on July 14, 1999, but for some odd reason, I thought it was at the 7th Street Entry. According to City Pages, Kitty Craft was the opener.
I remember they opened up their show with "Mondo '77" (which hadn't been released as a single at the time). For "Impossible Things", and I want to say that Karn brought out an old fashion typewriter on stage to make the typing noise. Karn did not do the typewriter-thing or have a movie projection at the Flaming Lips show, possibly due to saving time.
A loopy celebration of life's little things.
Vickie Casey, Star Tribune (03/10/2000)
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I think this was my first time seeing The Flaming Lips, but I could be wrong. Seems odd that this was "a very special Early Evening performance", since the band's psychedelic/space rock seems to work better at night. Anyway, they were coming off a huge buzz from their 1999 album The Soft Bulletin, which many fans considered this their masterpiece album. I think this was also the album that you can play against some movie and the music would make sense with the film. At least that's the story I got from talking to some hardcore fans standing in line for this show.
I don't remember what was played, but I am pretty sure that did not play "She Don't Use Jelly", which was the only song I was hoping to hear.
Currently, the Flaming Lips released their 13th album The Terror on Warner Bros Records.
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