Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips has recounted his first experience taking acid as part of Comedy Centralâs Tales From The Trip series.
âWhatever anxiety people feel when they talk about an acid flashback, Iâm feeling it a little bit right now,â Coyne said as he began to recount the trip.
Coyne recalls the trip taking place in 1977, when he was a 16-year-old youth living in Oklahoma City. Sometime after dropping, Coyne and his friends went to a local drive-thru to get some food.
“Iâm driving even though I shouldnât be driving,” Coyne said.
“Theyâre all coming downâŠbut Iâm still kind of in the nether zone of just being exhausted. Moments are happy but a lot of moments are terrified.
âAs we got closer to the windowâŠI could see, a car or two ahead of me, I could see some commotion, some dudes, they tried to grab the cash register.
âThe window is all demolished. Somehow, the glass cuts the guyâs wrist. I donât know if youâve seen blood from an artery, it flies out. This is in 1977, this is long before people would handle human blood like a strange substance.â
Before long, the ‘thieves’ left the scene and Coyne received his food from the drive-thru attendant.
âI remember looking in the bag and the french fries are wiggling aroundâŠI never ordered cheeseburgers on LSD ever again.â
The Flaming Lips performed their first ‘bubble concert’ in Oklahoma City earlier this month. Band and audience members were each enclosed in giant bubbles for the duration of the gig, in an effort to maintain social distancing.
The group are planning to tour the UK in Summer next year, having rescheduled their 2020 dates due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Flaming Lips released their most recent album, ‘American Head’, in September. In a four-star review, NME called the record “a beautiful ode to love and loss that handles the subjects with grace”.
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