Steven Drozd—the Flaming Lips’ longtime guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and first songwriter alongside Wayne Coyne—is not within the band, in line with a since-deleted post Drozd made on-line. When replying to a fan on Threads who requested if he was “formally carried out with the FLips,” the musician replied, “They’re carried out with me – however we’re not speaking about it. So sure I’m transferring on. Simply maintain 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 fashioned several side projects collectively up to now, 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 once they observed he was absent from their concert events. Through the band’s current string of exhibits, AJ Slaughter was masking Drozd’s elements in his place.
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