Derek St. Brown
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Our five year old son Truman, dressed here as
@genesimmons
, would like to tell you his favorite song from each of his
@kiss
LPs. Note in the background the dollhouse he took over from his big sisters that he transformed into a “KISS house.”
#KISSKids
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4yo: Dad - what’s your job?
Me: I play instruments in The Flaming Lips.
4yo: (long pause) That’s not a job!
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@stereogum
@futureislands
“I’ll take all of that you got” is one of the best Letterman after a band quotes.
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Tonight at Bob Dylan, we were seated in the same row as Wanda Jackson. I yelled, “Wanda!” She looked over confused. I said, “Love you, Wanda!” She smiled. Tell them you love them when you can.
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@NewsHour
Hi
@TomColeOK04
- one of your constituents here. I disagree wholeheartedly and urge you to reconsider your stance and vote to impeach Trump immediately.
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My wife got me a Gibson Firebird (a guitar I’ve wanted since I was a boy) for my 40th birthday. My wife is awesome.
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@Steven_Hyden
I played at a tribute to him in LA in 2015. Someone cheerfully asked him backstage if he was excited about the concert. He replied “Nope!” and just kept walking.
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Here are some pics of our 3yo son at his first KISS last month in Wichita. I hope they put a smile on your face.
@genesimmons
@kiss
#KISSKids
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Last night my parents (who taped every TV appearance I did before YouTube) sent me a video of me playing bass for Liz Phair on the Ellen show, 2003. The Yamaha bass must’ve been inspired by Peter Hook. 😛
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To celebrate my birthday, The Flaming Lips emailed me a code to get 15% of something in the merch store.
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@JoshSchwerin
@PodSaveAmerica
I think undecided people are really just people that want to be on TV.
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A spoonful weighs a ton.
@drozd_stephen
and I used to improvise a guitar section in the middle of the song. Some nights it would fall flat on its face and some nights it worked wonderfully. I just came across one of those wonderful ones from 2018 in Taos, NM.
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It was
@drozd_stephen
’s birthday yesterday. This is probably my favorite pic of us together. Somewhere in Sweden. June 2013.
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My thinning, greying hair "blown' in the wind" and Bob Dylan's road home.
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Rehearsing ‘The Terror’ debut show. Austin. March 2013.
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13 years ago today I played my first show with
@theflaminglips
at Pitchfork in Chicago. If you look closely you can see the fear of God in my eyes.
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I told him “Dancing With the Moonlit Knight” changed my brain chemistry.
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Due to my profession as a touring musician, last night I had to miss a solo
@mountain_goats
show in my hometown, but I did get the pleasure of seeing one of my other “guys”
@marcmaron
do comedy in STL and tell him he helped me get sober. 🤙🏻
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One of the times the Lips were on the Letterman show, we ran into Martin Short in the hallway. A member of our group accidentlly said “It’s Martin SHEEN!” and Martin was totally unphased and kept smiling and was incredibly kind.
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When you headline a festival, you load in the night before and soundcheck at 10am. At these English festivals, early-riser campers come watch us do it.
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In the carefree days before Trump and COVID we did silly things like spend money on custom guitar pics. Just came across a couple of the remaining. My wife sketched the design and Jake made it happen!
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I met Steve Howe. What a class act. We wear the same pants. I complimented his bolo tie.
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Getting a kick out of
@waynecoyne
's depiction of the Lips. I look like a cross between Kurt Vile and William Reid!
http://t.co/EvdIKCX6hk
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Good morning. I just happily flipped off protestors outside Planned Parenthood. Just trying to do my part.
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Just had the honor of telling Billy Gibbons that “Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers” has one of the greatest guitar solos ever. He laughed and we fist bumped.
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Our crew bus driver just told me, "You're hands down the best tour manager I've ever worked with" and if you anything about the typical bus driver, you know what an amazing honor this is.
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I‘m able to support my family (wife of 15 years and three young children) largely from playing concerts around the world. Trump playing this political game and ending relief efforts means countless venues that we play will not be able to re-open once it’s safe to. Please vote.
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Is anyone else thinking k.d. Lang just walked into an excellent restaurant investment in Bricktown?
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You should’ve heard the howling laughter of my three young children as we drove by Bum’s last night.
@Braums_IceCream
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Doctor: A mic stand fell on your toe? Are you a musician?
Me on x-ray table: Yes.
Doctor: You like The Beatles?
Me: Yes.
(silence)
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Spent the day at the Lips warehouse with comrade Zach figuring out gear for all the rock and roll shows we’re gonna do this year.
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Gotta love the Uber driver that somehow deducts you’re in a band; asks band’s name; says “I’ve never heard of you” and then plays said band’s most popular tracks on Spotify for the entire ride. 🫠
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Four years ago today I ran into one of America’s greatest bands,
@cheaptrick
, at the Milwaukee airport.
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It’s officially been a year since we’ve played a show in this country. The pic below is from November 8, 2019 taken at Stubb's in Austin.
Crazy, right? When do you think we’ll announce more shows?
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Tonight I was able to tell Richard Butler that “She Is Mine” is one of my favorite songs. He replied, “It’s one of my best lyrics!” 📸
@ROCKworth
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We emailed our kids' school district superintendent asking about the possibility of a mask mandate this fall...you know, so our kids have less of a chance of dying? This is his response.
@KOCODillon
- do you know if OK public schools can NOT mandate masks by law?
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I only listen to The Cure now. My apologies to every band that isn’t The Cure.
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Tonight we are playing in the same building where
@TheWho
recorded ‘Live At Leeds.’ Daltrey signed my copy in 2009 and said “Ah, I remember it like it was yesterday..”
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In my COVID recovery, we rewatched Rolling Thunder Revue. Dylan’s best line: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” And holy shit, after 40 years on this earth, that hit me like an epiphany. Create whoever you want to be despite what you come from.
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The time I turned back into a 13 year old so excited to meet
@Metallica
. Lars couldn’t believe I’d played with Steve Burns and James gave me bronchitis.
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The perfect end to a year of touring and being away - getting to spend some time at Disneyland with the fam.
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10 years ago today I paid a confused taxi driver to drive me round-trip from my Manchester hotel to Salford Lad’s Club and take my picture in front of it. The day before, I ran into
@Johnny_Marr
!
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Ah, Oklahoma…where if you’re pre-born, you’re good. If you’re pre-school, you’re fucked!
I am proud to sign SB 1503, the Oklahoma Heartbeat Act into law.
I want Oklahoma to be the most pro-life state in the country because I represent all four million Oklahomans who overwhelmingly want to protect the unborn.
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Had maybe the sweetest exchange with our young son last night.
Him: How old was Paul Stanley when he made The Elder?
Me: 29 maybe?
Him: How old will you be when I’m 29?
Me: 64
Him: Will you still be able to play the piano? I’m gonna need you to play on “Odyssey”
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I certainly felt my age this morning when I walked into the venue for tonight's show and the house manager greeted me with "Have you been here before?" I took a sigh, looked around, and said "Ma'am, I've been playing here for 19 years."
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Shooting an episode of ‘Portlandia’ or as I remember it…the day I met Janet Weiss.
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I’ve decided I’m gonna cope with the depressing emptiness of the impending winter by gaining 30 lbs.
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Facetime'ing with our sweet 5yo today and he says to me, "D - did you play 'Worm Mountain' yet?"
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@sebastianbach
@rushtheband
What is disturbing for me, is the reiteration that sometimes life just isn’t fair. He excelled his entire life and retired with such class. That to have this tragedy so soon in the years of his life that he was to be a fully-present father & husband…it’s just too much for me..
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I never miss a chance to sit on the rocks at the Brighton Pier.
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The lady and I had a meal alone tonight for the first time in a couple months.
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Ten years to the day after I played my first show with the Lips, we released the fantastic King’s Mouth record. ✌🏽
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Another weekend. Another fly date. Carry on checklist: Fuck Yeah balloons, iPad for my synth, bubble wrap to bring home my son Gene Simmons Moneybag Soda.
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“The Flaming Lips are in some ways psych-rock’s answer to KISS. Different generations have been able to connect with different phases in the band’s long career, whether from knowing their early work or their reputation as one of the most life-affirming live acts on the planet."😃
As logic stands, you couldn't meet a man crazy enough to rank all of the albums of
@theflaminglips
. But logic broke and he appeared and wrote this gigantic list over at
@PasteMagazine
!
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A couple years ago, I was in a meeting representing the Recording Academy and Mullin lost his temper and yelled at Taylor Hanson of all people. Vote for Kendra.
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Don’t mind me, just a middle aged man driving himself home from receiving monoclonal antibodies crying to the last few songs of Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness.
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The news of the day made me think of this doodle Wayne did on a dressing room sign in 2010.
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I don't know exactly how to process the death of one of my main "guys", so I'll write my own ego-bituary about the time I met
@normmacdonald
at LAX in October of 2019. 1/7
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This morning while my wife and I watched this in horror and outrage, our two young daughters came in to happily perform their latest play for us - blissfully ignorant to what the screen behind them meant for their future.
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Sunday with the kids: I agree to take them to lunch at the stupid restaurant they love. Get there and they’re not taking walk-ins. I talk our way to a table promising to be low maintenance. 20 minutes later, 6yo vomits all over table, himself and myself. I leave a big tip.
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One year ago today in Puebla, Mexico, we played our last “normal” concert for awhile..
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19 years ago today
@mountain_goats
started a tour supporting one of my all-time favorite LPs, 'Tallahassee'. This was the first tour with Peter Hughes, I think?
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This is cool! We were up against acts like Metallica and Travis Scott.
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Played an arena tonight. I love arenas. I love the history. I love looking up all the shows that happened there over the years. Cheap Trick opening RATT in ‘86?! Rush on Hemispheres?! It makes me happy.
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@JoshKurp
I would love to see the email chain from Vin Diesel's publicist sent to his "team" sincerely showing them what a "great look" they got on the Kelly Clarkson Show.
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The only time most of my relatives ever see the Lips on TV... 😐
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In every classic rock band, there’s always one guitarist or bassist that goes to sing backup vocals, but is never heard in the mix. He might not even be singing. He is typically the coolest guy in the band.
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A sort of incredible pic from the other night in Denver..
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Backstage Keurig machine with a message from my friend Warren.
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Had a
#preciousmoment
with
@stevendrozd
today on Flaming Lips Alley. (These ladies didn't know the Lips are a band).
http://t.co/1tFy8Dlkxm
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Latest item I bought on the internet to make me feel better about a collapsing democracy.
#garfield
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2yo son grabs my phone to play Def Leppard's "Photograph"...I proceed to air drum and sing...he tells me to "knock it off".
#Blessed
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Post a photo of yourself in early 2020, not knowing what was coming.
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Wearing my ‘Gaucho’ shirt at DTW airport, it was my obligation to tip the smooth jazz guitarist that played very loudly while I ate my lunch.
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As I boarded a flight to Spokane today,
@tommymckenzie
observed a woman who looked at me and said in a deadpan delivery to herself “This guy looks like he’s had the time of his life” and I will wonder what exactly she meant by that for the rest of my life.
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