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Radiohead at the Grammys

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For those of you who otherwise would not tune into the Grammys tomorrow night, and I suspect and I hope that that includes pretty much everybody, maybe this will change your mind.  Radiohead, whose album In Rainbows and single House of Cards are nominated, will be performing.  Rumor also has it that they may be playing the song 15 Step with the USC Marching Band.  I don’t know how likely that sounds, but it will be pretty awesome if it happens.

 

As far as the “art & literature” thing goes . . . we’re working on it.

Radiohead Live!

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Radiohead Live

I just had the pleasure of seeing two dynamic veteran bands in the span of a week. Nine Inch Nails tore it up with an amazing show in Connecticut last week, and Radiohead was just phenomenal in an open air venue in Massachusetts on Wednesday. Both bands are now making good use of really elaborate light shows and, in the case of NIN, screens and projections. This was the 5th time I saw Radiohead and i’m rating it as my favorite concert.

The setlist was solid, spanning their career (except for Pablo Honey). What really set it apart from previous shows were the lights (the audience collectively Oooohed during one sequence in Idioteque) and my perception that they were doing new and extra things for each song. For example, Optimistic and Kid A are by no means my favorite Radiohead songs but each had something different (a spastic guitar sequence and backing vocals by drummer phil selway in optimistic and vocal manipulations and sampling in kid a) that really demonstrated to me how masterful and innovative the band is. I even screamed at the end of optimistic…and i never scream.

Every song was a highlight, but i was very pleased to see A Wolf at the Door and Cymbal Rush (the last track on Thom Yorke’s The Eraser) live.

Setlist:
01. Reckoner
02. Optimistic
03. There There
04. 15 Step (very spastic dancing)
05. Kid A
06. Nude
07. All I Need
08. The Gloaming
09. The National Anthem
10. Videotape
11. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
12. The Bends
13. Faust Arp (Thom messed up on this one and just smiled and shook his head)
14. Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi
15. Everything In Its Right Place
16. Exit Music
17. Bodysnatchers

Encore 1
18. House of Cards
19. I Might Be Wrong
20. Paranoid Android
21. A Wolf At The Door
22. How To Disappear Completely

Encore 2:
23. Cymbal Rush (played solo on piano)
24. Karma Police
25. Idioteque