That can be very enlightening because sometimes I'll think a song is more about one thing and find out he or Steven hears it a totally different way. So if we're rehearsing a song and it's missing some ingredient that may have been on the record, we go back and listen to the original and find what we've been missing. How is it different for The Flaming Lips?ĭerek Brown: Wayne has an incredible ability to focus on minute details of a song. The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne (photo by Nikki Kahl) But with every show we've done so far, we keep refining it more and more, so it's been cool to have the show evolve as we go along.
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Miley joined us in Oklahoma for several days at a theater where we did a full run-through with all the video, lights, and stuff and we refined what the show would be. Then the full band got together for a couple weeks, minus Miley, and rehearsed the set the way we thought things would go. The MXR Carbon Copy sounds cool too.Ĭan you describe the rehearsal process for Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz?ĭerek Brown: Matt Duckworth and Nick Ley started working together before any of us did, mapping out how they would handle all the drums and samples. The Fuzz Wah Probe is pretty sick too, Drozd turned me on to that one. It kind of creates this really nice cloud of notes around your regular note that I really dig, rather than a cluster of square warbling. It has a sound that has less of a synthetic decay or warble. The pitch shift on that Bass Multi-Effects, I use live and in recordings. The Bass Multi-Effects has the perfect go-to delay and its pitch shifting is smoother than the Digitech. I love what some Oklahoma-based companies, like Walrus Audio, Keeley Electronics and Old Blood Noise Endeavors, are doing as well. What pedals do you run when you play with them?ĭerek Brown: I love Empress guitar pedals - if anyone at Empress is reading this, please call us! The Electro-Harmonix HOG is amazing. The Flaming Lips are known for their crazy, experimental sounds. It's modded with the Hot Rails pickups, which gives it this insane output, and it plays wonderfully. Drozd had this 1967 Fender Jazzmaster and Coyne had put this Hot Rail in there.ĭerek Brown: The primary electric guitar I use is a vintage Fender Jaguar they've had around for a long time. I was feeding back a lot and apparently he did that to Steven way back in the day.
Basically, I've got the 2015 Fender Jaguar Coyne had me put a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails in on the bridge pickup. Jake Ingalls with his Squier Jagmaster (photo by Nikki Kahl)Īre you running the same equipment on a Dead Petz show as you would on a Flaming Lips set?
I'd heard rumors they were going to add someone but never thought I was on the list. In 2009, out of the blue, Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd asked me if I'd be interested in joining the band live, not replacing anyone but adding to what was already there.
That would have been in the Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots era. Then I played with a couple bands that they took out on the road as support acts, like Starlight Mints and Steve Burns. How did you first start working with The Flaming Lips?ĭerek Brown: I started to know them socially around 2001, just from being around Oklahoma City and promoting shows and stuff. With The Flaming Lips transforming into The Dead Petz and backing Miley Cyrus on her “Milky Milk” tour, it makes for some insane traveling schedules, including flying out from one tour to play a show in the other, and back again.Įven so, Derek Brown, guitarist, keyboardist and unsung hero, and Jake Ingalls, the 23-year old guitar and synth player, who has climbed from volunteer stagehand to on-stage player, made time to speak with Reverb about the rehearsal process, the demands of enduring two major tours and, of course, their gear. The Lips served up a sensational and visually stunning performance that electrified the crowd and rang in the new year with confetti cannons, giant balloons and a menagerie of smoke, strobes and melting rainbows.
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