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F<\/span>or 30 years now, the Flaming Lips have garnered a reputation for being one of the most delightfully eccentric and psychedelic bands in American history. Yet, considering their trippy soundscapes, trippier album artwork and mind-bending forays into film and live performances, it may come as a surprise to many that frontman Wayne Coyne is not much of a cannabis consumer.<\/p>\n We caught up with the charming singer and songwriter on a summer afternoon, as he was busy re-painting his house, to chat about the handful of positive experience he\u2019s enjoyed with cannabis, what he would name his own strain and more.<\/p>\n Cannabis Now: So, I\u2019ve gathered that consuming cannabis isn\u2019t exactly on the top of your regular to-do list\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n Wayne Coyne: I know a lot of people who really love it. I\u2019m all for it. But whatever the magic is, it doesn\u2019t do that for me. I\u2019ve had a few experiences that were wonderful, but most of them involved paranoia, anxiety \u2014 \u201cOh shit I forgot that I\u2019m stoned, what am I gonna do now\u201d kind of experiences. It\u2019s my worrisome personality that\u2019s not allowing me to enjoy it.<\/p>\n I hear you. For a long time, I really struggled to find means of consuming that didn\u2019t make me feel like I was about to die. Especially with edibles.<\/b><\/p>\n You\u2019ve had a similar experience! I think we\u2019re very much in the same boat then. I\u2019d like to be able to find a strain that I can rely on; something that gets me happy and feeling good every time.<\/p>\n I would wrongly occasionally take a hit of [frequent collaborator<\/a>] Miley Cyrus\u2019s weed, and virtually every time I did that I regretted it. Except for one time that it really worked. I had a great time, but it was by accident. It was after a long night of drinking and doing cocaine. We smoked this weed and thought we were gonna go to sleep and then it kept us awake and we were very happy and horny and I remember thinking, That\u2019s why people smoke weed<\/i>. I thought that there could be a strain that I could rely on.<\/p>\n If you had the chance to name that dream strain, what would it be?<\/b><\/p>\n There are so many bad strain names out there. Any product that mentions that it makes you horny I would never take. I\u2019d want something useful, like Healthy Happy Cannabis, instead of something that\u2019s trying to be wacko and psychedelic and hippie and whatever. Let\u2019s just call this what it\u2019s gonna do and not give it any exaggerated flavor.<\/p>\n Speaking of flavors, I was curious about the live version of \u2018The Soft Bulletin<\/a>\u2019 that you guys released [on a USB drive, inside of a skull, complete with a marijuana-flavored gummy brain<\/a>]. What happened there?<\/b><\/p>\n (Laughs.) Well, the guy who makes the gummy stuff, he had these flavors that he asked me about, so I said, \u201cLet\u2019s get it and see if it tastes like weed!\u201d I thought that it really did hint at it\u2026 Some people thought there was weed sprinkled within the gummy. We allowed that to be part of the fun \u2014 because of course<\/i> the Flaming Lips would do that. We weren\u2019t in our contract with Warner Bros at the time. If we were, they would have said, \u2018You can\u2019t do this marijuana-flavored gummy.\u2019 I think it made it more fun and crazy.<\/p>\n Photo RemixYourFace<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I remember listening to \u2018Zaireeka<\/a>\u2019 [a Flaming Lips album that comes on four separate discs that are meant to be played simultaneously] for the first time as a kid \u2014 before I had any experience with drugs \u2014 and feeling really disoriented in a way that I\u2019ve reconnected with later under the influence of cannabis. As someone who seems a bit averse to psychedelic drug experiences, I\u2019m curious what your reference points were for such disorienting and out-there music?<\/b><\/p>\n Certainly a lot of the music that we listen to was created by people who take drugs. Even though I\u2019m seen as the guy doing the most talking in the Flaming Lips, guys in the group are doing drugs as well. We\u2019re not a straight-edge group by any means.<\/p>\n With \u2018Zaireeka,\u2019you\u2019re concentrating on what seems like normal music: beats and structure and melody and all that. But then there are times where \u2018Zaireeka\u2019 will wobble away and your mind wants to stay on the beat. Part of you thinks it\u2019ll come back together very soon, or get out of wack enough that it\u2019ll be just be in a different time signature. We call that a meditative little trip \u2014 for only a couple of seconds. You lose all balance of what\u2019s happening because your concentration is on a deeper level. We\u2019re really glad that it\u2019s a real experience people have had with \u2018Zaireeka.\u2019 It\u2019s exactly what we hope to create with music; the ability to take you out of your own world.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not because we\u2019re trying to recreate a drug experience. It\u2019s the kind of drug experience that I wish I could have \u2014 you\u2019re absolutely aware and able to concentrate. A lot of times drugs, although they\u2019re wonderful, they rob you of your focus and concentration. It\u2019s a dilemma (laughs).<\/p>\n Originally published in\u00a0Issue 28<\/a>\u00a0of Cannabis Now.\u00a0<\/em>LEARN MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n TELL US,<\/strong> do you listen to music high?<\/p>\n The post Flaming Lips\u2019 Wayne Coyne Talks Music\u2019s Meditative Trip<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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