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Yesterday Radiohead did another one of their famous winter webcasts and called it "Thumbs Down." Unfortunately, I wasn't able to watch it live, but of course there are video clips from it popping up all over YouTube. There's also some evidence that the band might post the entire video to their website, so stay tuned for that if you missed it the first time around. Two of the best clips that I've found so far are of their first live performance of the new "Reckoner," and a cover of The Smiths' "The Headmaster Ritual." It's been a very long time since Radiohead have played any covers live (does anyone know when the last one was?) so it was pretty cool to hear their renditions of some songs by The Smiths, Joy Division/New Order (hitting all the big influences), and Bjork, along with all of their original stuff. Overall, this is probably the best webcast they've done in terms of the band playing/DJing ratio.
For you gear-spies out there, I noticed that Jonny is playing a Les Paul gold top for the first time (as far as I know). So, until they get the whole thing posted, here those clips that I mentioned.
Congratulations, Greg. This was a nice engagement celebration for the band to do for you.
Jerad posted this in Music | Comments (3)
Thanks for the shout out!
I think that the last cover was during the KID A tour during th ebegining of the everything in the right place, they played "After the Goldrush" by none other than Neil Young...
BTW Neil is playing DC in the next week or so, hoping to get some TIX...
PEACE
Posted by: Greg at November 11, 2007 08:47 PM
Did they play the full Neil Young song? Thom often sings a few lines of some song before EIIRP so that Jonny can get the Kaoss Pad primed.
Posted by: Jerad at November 12, 2007 07:58 AM
From what I remember, most of the time it was the first few parts, but there are recordings I've heard that had nearly the entire song...
After that, I don't know of covers.....
Posted by: greg at November 12, 2007 11:02 AM
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