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Episode 3-1: New Faces

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Biw said:
I loved the Radiohead talk. I went to see them at Blossom in 2008 and it's been a highlight of my life ever since. In Rainbows in also my favorite album with Reckoner being my favorite track. My introduction to them was actually In Rainbows. I had smoked weed for the first time and my buddy put the album on and turned on Weird Fishes. That's a memory that will forever be seared in my head and reshaped my idea of what music is or could be.

I also want to know how much @The Oi is paying that handsome actor to impersonate him. SAG minimum?

Great show guys, you made the drive home a lot more enjoyable. Looking forward to episode 2.
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Yea, fun to hear the Radiohead talk. I almost had a chance to see them in a box seat in the Hollywood bowl in 2000 or 2001. This dude I knew, who wasn't a fan, preferred to go to the concert late and leave early than sell them to me. He mainly went to schmooze with celebs (He was an aspiring studio exec who was thick in celebrity culture. His brother was dating Christina Aguilera at the time.) Anyhow, I digress. Still pissed I missed that concert. LOL
 
Biw said:
I loved the Radiohead talk. I went to see them at Blossom in 2008 and it's been a highlight of my life ever since. In Rainbows in also my favorite album with Reckoner being my favorite track. My introduction to them was actually In Rainbows. I had smoked weed for the first time and my buddy put the album on and turned on Weird Fishes. That's a memory that will forever be seared in my head and reshaped my idea of what music is or could be.
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That song might be one the best compositions of music of the last 20 years. Not exaggerating.

My favorite rendition of it is this live version From The Basement.

Watch the way Jonny Greenwood and Ed start the performance out face to face with their dueling guitars. Can you imagine how hard it is to keep your rhythm with 3 other guitars playing an entirely different rhythm until they all come together in syncopation around the 2 minute mark. When they come together and then Ed does his background vocals, I get goosebumps every goddamn time. Like I just saw a ghost. :chuckle:

(hops off his music geek soapbox)

 
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Radio head was the secret guest at Lollapalooza in 2008. I think they played all of In Rainbows there. Didn't know who was playing, it was the late at night, we sat on a hill and watched the whole thing.
 
Lasts Music Soapbox Geek-ism, bear with me...


I often talk about Jazz being just like basketball. Well THIS performance is unequivocally Jazz. And here is how the starting 5 paralleled our starting 5 with their roles and performance on this live rendition...

Phillip Selway - Drums (Jarrett Allen)

Last line of defense. He's the backbone that freed up the other 4 players to do whatever they needed to do by maintaining this crisp ass metronome of a rhythm without any quantizing for the entire performance. 48 mins of shot blocking and rim protecting

Ed O'Brien - Guitar/Background Vocals (Max Strus)

Ed is the glue guy on this track. His guitar and his vocals are like the 3-D fifth starter who, when he's on and playing at his best, makes this team unbeatable basically. His guitar and vocal comes into syncopation around 2:10 and you realize its a Cavalanche at that moment

Colin Greenwood - Bass (Donovan Mitchell)

Colin is the designated scorer on this performance. In all black, his bass stands out from the other three guitars and is the perfect compliment to Phil's beat AND the three guitars. When he takes a break at 3 mins, you notice he's not on the floor immediately and you keep looking to the sideline waiting for JBB to send him back to the scorers table to close this bitch out.

Jonny Greenwood - First Guitar you hear/Keyboard (Evan Mobley)

Totally nondescript and almost invisible but you KNOW he's there and impacting every element of the entire performance. He starts the video off in a face off with Ed and the moment you hear his guitar, you know your team came to play tonight. It's like on the first possession, Mobley recovers on D and blocks a shot, retains possession, leads the team on a fast break and creates an open shot for one of the teammates on the offensive end... that's how Jonny played his lead on this track. When his lead drops and he goes over to the keyboard, it's like Evan Mobley leading a break and pulling up for a 3 while the entire defense is packing it in expecting him to facilitate for someone else or take it to the whole. The opposing fanbase is like... "We didnt even know this guy could do THAT, he's a damn unicorn"

Thom Yorke - Lead Vocals/Guitar (Darius Garland)

Point guard of this composition. Maestro. His vocals and head weaving are the reason we know we are winning this goddamn game and the other team knows it too. If you watch Radiohead performances, you know that when Thom does his head weaving, its the same as Darius doing his skipping. Once he's doing that, we aint losing boys.

Ok, let me get some work done
 
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Biw said:
I loved the Radiohead talk. I went to see them at Blossom in 2008 and it's been a highlight of my life ever since. In Rainbows in also my favorite album with Reckoner being my favorite track. My introduction to them was actually In Rainbows. I had smoked weed for the first time and my buddy put the album on and turned on Weird Fishes. That's a memory that will forever be seared in my head and reshaped my idea of what music is or could be.

I also want to know how much @The Oi is paying that handsome actor to impersonate him. SAG minimum?

Great show guys, you made the drive home a lot more enjoyable. Looking forward to episode 2.
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I'm pretty sure those images of Oi are AI generated.
 
I love me some Radiohead although I currently don't listen to music as much as I used to. I brought Creep into our bar band setlist when Radiohead was still fairly obscure (late 90's, in Montana). I heard it on one of my kid's playlists and it grabbed me as something different to bring to the mix for a bar band setlist, nobody else was doing anything similar in our area. Simple chords, just had to pull together the feel and dynamics, and perfectly in the wheelhouse of my vocal range, especially the crescendo. It kicked ass with the crowds late in the night, kind of a chance to slow the tempo but not in any way wimpy. I know York had a love/hate relationship and I tried bringing in some of their other stuff, but we didn't work that hard at our material and Radiohead's syncopation and technical expertise were too much work to pull off for our band that jammed/improvised a lot and even learned new songs during performances on slow nights.
 
MirORich said:
RCH One of the best concerts of my life was summer of 1997, just past HS graduation. Saw Radiohead at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium which was essentially a High Scool Auditorium that some rich alumni must have funded. They played half of the first album, all of the Bends(with Johnny doing the keys part to Street Spirit with the headstock of his guitar while simultaneously picking the guitar part), and about half of OK Computer, which had either just come out or was a month or two off from coming out. To add to the drama of it all, it was a stormy night with massive horizontal heat lightning strikes all night.
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I was also there in the Lakewood Civic Auditorium. I went to JCU so I floated around Cleveland throughout the 90s, but I was stoked that high school friends were back from their colleges elsewhere. One of my friends was a brilliant guy but only cared about launching his rock band around the Miami of Ohio area. He ended up an intellectual property lawyer for Time/Warner to put his encyclopedic music history knowledge to work. Anyways, he was insistent that we all get tickets to that show. I wasn't moved one way or another by Radiohead until that concert. It remains a top five show I ever saw, and I didn't see it coming at all.
 
Biw said:
I loved the Radiohead talk. I went to see them at Blossom in 2008 and it's been a highlight of my life ever since. In Rainbows in also my favorite album with Reckoner being my favorite track. My introduction to them was actually In Rainbows. I had smoked weed for the first time and my buddy put the album on and turned on Weird Fishes. That's a memory that will forever be seared in my head and reshaped my idea of what music is or could be.
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Yassss... I've seen Radiohead 5x now, with the best showing being the Hollywood bowl in 2003 on my 21st birthday. In Rainbows is such a fantastic album... I hope you've gotten into Ok Computer, Kid A, and The King of Limbs as well. They have a unique way of making their music even better when it is live. For instance, I didn't really like the album version of this song, but when you watch them build it out live, it is insanely good:

 
ajz20 said:
You guys look good . As a fellow YouTuber much respect on expanding the show! The oi looks much bigger than I anticipated .
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What’s your channel?
MirORich said:
You guys are just too damn suave and good looking not to watch this video version



- Jig, that basement and Don Draper couch looks familiar from a few OF videos I’ve seen
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I was gonna try to persuade my wife to ditch the couch until you guys called it a Don Draper couch.

Now we’re keeping it. Might even have to find room for a third one of those portraits @RchfldCavRaised pointed out behind it…
 
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Might even have to find room for a third one of those portraits @RchfldCavRaised pointed out behind it…
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Papa Jig to Mama Jig...

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Please make sure your camera is covered first

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If any of you remember 2Gether from MTV, Jig is Mickey Parke, the Bad Boy.

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