"Local bands give tribute to the Flaming Lips" was a brief article published by the OU Daily about the Flaming Lips tribute show at Opolis in conjunction with a book release for J. Michelle-Martin-Coyne's Waking up with a Placebo Headwound. Todd Fagin was interviewed for the article. You can read the entire article here. Todd's portion follows below:

Todd Fagin, member of Anvil Salute, said he loves the Lips' music and has listened to them since the late '80s. Fagin said he doesn't know the band on a personal basis, but as with many people in Oklahoma who were in the scene in the '80s and the early '90s, he has seen them on many occasions. He said he knows the manager, Scott Booker, from his high school days when he would shop at Rainbow Records where Booker worked.

He said his band has a much different sound than that of the Lips.

"I believe [Anvil Salute] might approach music similarly in that neither the Lips nor Anvil Salute are necessarily constrained by a particular genre of music or even the desire to appeal to the masses, but that is just a guess on my part," Fagin said.

"I have been a fan of the Flaming Lips for about 15 years now," Fagin said. "It's an honor to get to butcher two of their songs that I love so much. I mean that without any sarcasm."