Relationship With The Flaming Lips and The Soft Bulletin
As Mercury Rev was completing work on Deserter’s Songs at Tarbox Road with Dave Fridmann, the producer was simultaneously helping The Flaming Lips craft their breakthrough album The Soft Bulletin in the same studio. In a 2011 interview, The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne discussed Deserter’s Songs, The Soft Bulletin, and the symbiotic creation of the two albums:
“...there were times when would go in right after, or they would come in right after us, and we were all exploring the same new gadgets together. They were starting to work in Protools at the same time we were. And whatever instruments, whatever new gadgets, between us, Mercury Rev and Dave ... which ever band would get them, the next group into the studio would use them too. If Dave had just had some breakthrough moment he'd recorded with us, when Mercury Rev would come in he would say 'Hey... we've got to do this, this is cool'. And the same thing would happen with us. So I think the connection is Dave Fridmann, and also this lack of really believing there would be an audience for this record. I think Mercury Rev felt the same way. Their audience had gone away, and all they could do was make the music that was in their dreams.”
Coyne attributes some of The Soft Bulletin's success to a 1999 Flaming Lips tour with Mercury Rev:
“I think without Deserter's Songs being so significant, The Soft Bulletin would probably have not been followed too much. But since it was put in the same vein, people became very interested in us.”
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