A friend of mine who worked for Warner Brothers had always been tight with the Lips. When they were out doing their “Flaming Lips Experiment” tour, which was an amazing audience-participation project that played at various clubs,he arranged for them to do the experiement at a private party in a great old Polish Hall in NE Minneapolis the night before the show at First Ave. It was amazingly cool, intimate, fun. Best birthday party I ever went to.