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The band currently consists of Wayne Coyne vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards , Steven Drozd guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, vocals , Derek Brown keyboards, guitars, percussion , Matt Duckworth Kirksey drums, percussion, keyboards and Tommy McKenzie bass. Coyne and Drozd have remained the band's only consistent members since , with Coyne being the only remaining founding member following the departure of bassist and keyboardist Michael Ivins in The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless , in the s and early s.

After they hired Dave Kotska as the drummer, Richard English joined the band in There are several theories as to how the band chose their name. One possibility is that it was inspired by the feature film Geraldine , in which comedian Stan Freberg sings several songs, including one named "Flaming Lips". However, according to an article in the September 16, , issue of Rolling Stone , Mark and Wayne [ 2 ] came up with the name as a reference to a rumor about a classmate who contracted genital herpes after receiving cunnilingus from a partner with active cold sores.

Wayne elaborated:.

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When Mark and I were in, I think it was Junior Year in High School, there was a rumor about this girl who got herpes from this guy at a party. He went down on her with a cold sore. I don't think we knew the girl, and I'm not sure if she even existed, you know how kids just spread bullshit. But when we were thinking of band names one night over a pack of Schlitz and some left-handed cigarettes and remembered how we joked that they both had "Flaming Lips" and it just stuck.

After his brother's departure, Wayne assumed the vocal duties and the band recorded their first full-length album, Hear It Is , [ 1 ] on Pink Dust Records the psychedelic-rock imprint of Enigma Records in London's Southern Studios, in This line-up recorded two more albums: 's Oh My Gawd!!! Drummer Nathan Roberts replaced English and guitarist Jonathan Donahue also a member of the alternative rock band Mercury Rev joined in During this period, Coyne made his transition to a higher, more strained vocal style akin to Neil Young , which he first used on Telepathic Surgery 's "Chrome Plated Suicide" and has employed ever since.