Wayne Coyne: Steven Drozd’s Purpose for Leaving the Flaming Lips Is a Lie

This publish has been up to date with Wayne Coyne’s assertion

Final week, Steven Drozd revealed in a since-deleted publish that he’s not in the Flaming Lips after a virtually 35-year-long run. The band hasn’t formally launched its personal assertion, however each frontman Wayne Coyne and present drummer Matthew Duckworth Kirksey have shared their ideas.

In an Instagram publish, Coyne confirms Drozd’s departure earlier than accusing him of mendacity in regards to the circumstances of leaving the band. “For anyone who learn Stevens publish in regards to the motive he’s not within the Flaming Lips … I can say that’s completely not true,” Coyne wrote. “The rationale he left is gloomy , and infuriating…. it’s HIS accountability to inform everybody what occurred… what he instructed everybody was a lie. I used to be making an attempt to offer him ( Steven ) his personal area and time to let everybody know what REALLY occurred… I’ll publish extra in only a few days.”

In the meantime, Matthew Duckworth Kirksey defended Coyne in an Instagram publish in collaboration with the band’s official account.

“A number of nice buddies and higher individuals have come and gone alongside the way in which. I nonetheless love them, and miss them, and a few of them are my household,” wrote Kirksey, who joined the Flaming Lips again in 2014. “This concept that Steven was THE musical genius, and Wayne is just a few weirdo artist… Its simply not true.”

Kirksey goes on to clarify how exhausting it’s to be in a band for a very long time, going as far as to name their rehearsals “brutal” however “fucking FUN,” and credit Coyne’s drive as making all of it worthwhile. He additionally revealed that the Flaming Lips are releasing new music quickly and referred to as it “the very best factor we’ve executed in ages.”

Learn Kirksey’s full assertion beneath:

“Man… exhausting to learn a whole lot of these feedback. Being in a band, for a very long time, that by no means actually stops touring is difficult. Some Individuals can hack it for five years, some individuals can hack it for 25 years… A number of nice buddies and higher individuals have come and gone alongside the way in which. I nonetheless love them, and miss them, and a few of them are my household. I simply wish to say… If you have not heard this latest iteration of the band, give us a shot. The music, and the present is best than ever. And keep in mind… NONE of this ever occurs with out Wayne. This concept that Steven was THE musical genius, and Wayne is just a few weirdo artist… Its simply not true. Wayne pushes the creativity, the sound, and the present ahead, like no artist I’ve ever been round. Being in The Lips is difficult… I keep in mind earlier than I used to be within the band, I might see them rehearsing for hours and hours and suppose… man… thats brutal. However when you get to be part of that imaginative and prescient… its fucking exhilarating. Its fucking FUN. Its Wayne’s drive to be nice that makes all of it doable. At all times has, at all times will. Derek has been is that this band for 16 years. I have been in it for 12 years. It is our blood, sweat, and tears as effectively. We have given our complete selves to this factor… As a result of we find it irresistible, and consider in it. There may be new music on the way in which and I feel its the very best factor we have executed in ages. I can not wait so that you can hear it. Come see us this summer time in case you get an opportunity. Blissful Holidays!”