Steven Drozd—the Flaming Lips’ longtime guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and first songwriter alongside Wayne Coyne—is not within the band, in response to a since-deleted put up Drozd made on-line. When replying to a fan on Threads who requested if he was “formally executed with the FLips,” the musician replied, “They’re executed with me – however we’re not speaking about it. So sure I’m transferring on. Simply preserve it to your self for now. OK?”
Pitchfork has reached out to a consultant of the Flaming Lips for remark.
Drozd joined the Flaming Lips in 1991 and has been a key member of the experimental psych-rock group ever since. Though he and Coyne have shaped a number of facet tasks collectively previously, Drozd has by no means parted methods with or taken a break from the band in these 34 years.
As Consequence factors out, followers began speculating about Drozd’s standing within the Flaming Lips a number of months in the past after they seen he was absent from their live shows. Through the band’s latest string of exhibits, AJ Slaughter was protecting Drozd’s elements in his place.
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