Reddits largest community for all things The Flaming Lips Tour info, media. The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra - the band’s live-recorded take on their album The Soft Bulletin, in partnership with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and performed on the stage set upon some of the state’s most crimson and mountain-like structures-can be pre-ordered on digital, CD, and 2xLP formats here. I always loved this album with how raw, powerful and emotional the songs are but recently I lost a good friend of mine and listening to this album with that in mind it really felt like a punch in the gut and added a new meaning to it for me. The announcement of the live album coincides with the 30th anniversary of The Soft Bulletin (or thereabouts). The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra-the new version of The Soft Bulletin recorded in a live setting at the Red Rocks music performance venue alongside the Colorado Symphony Orchestra orchestra-features all 12 tracks from the original album performed with a 68-piece orchestra and 57-piece choir (which is just about one person for every Flaming Lips release). It’s out November 29 through Warner Records. Sure, there were glimpses of greatness in Transmission from the Satellite Heart and Hit To Death on the. That reportedly changes next month, as the band is set to release The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, a live version of their iconic 1999 record The Soft Bulletin, recorded live, at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater, with Colorado’s Colorado Symphony Orchestra, in 2016. Before The Soft Bulletin was released, few would have thought that The Flaming Lips would be capable of creating an album of such beauty, joy, poignancy and unique value. Despite the fact that exactly half of all record stores are permanently leased out by The Flaming Lips’ prodigious discography, the band has never released an official live album.