Radiohead Roll Call

Originally posted by Erinaceous Sonickus:

Originally posted by gaaaaaaaaah:
I find all these complaints to be a bit ridiculous. I got to Nissan plenty early, and there were no problemms at all. If everyone supposedly knows Nissan is horrible for traffic, it should have been common sense that shitty weather will make that worse, meaning leave really early for the concert. It seems like common sense to me.

but you dont need to rub it in everyones face after the fact, really. besides, some ppl may have had plans for sunday afternoon, being mothers day and such.

I don't much feel bad for those that couldn't make it. Does tend to be their own fault. BUT - I do feel very bad for those trapped there AFTER.

It's a very strange phenomenon @ these sheds. They got a million workers in the lots getting you parked just right. Then post-show: FREE FOR ALL!
Have at it kids…

I tuned into the radio after having sat in the car in my parking spot for 2 hours to find out that part of the problem was one exit was completely flooded and closed, so everyone was going out via one exit. Also heard that for a while the stoplights everywhere around the venue had shorted and were out, so they were scrambling police to direct traffic at about a half dozen stoplight intersections. The weird thing was that we were literally going nowhere for 2 hours, and then all of a sudden it took only 10 minutes to get out of the parking lot. Did they only open one lot at a time or something and my lot was just last in line?

I got my replacement tickets yesterday. I am glad to be able to see Radiohead, and that is cool of them to comp tickets, but it still sucks that this had to happen in the first place.

Originally posted by distance:
by 'debut' or 'new' i thought it was a reference to things never played previously, like seeing 'down is the new up' played for the first time ever @ toronto night 2 in 06.

in which case you would have wanted to be in dublin yesterday, they broke out a new song called "super collider". they rehearsed it previously during soundchecks, but last night was its concert debut. piano-driven number with arpeggiated patterns and strong vocal melody was how one person described it, i haven't had time to track it down yet. i'm sure shitty copies are all over youtube, but i'm holding out for a decent bootleg - which are probably popping up right about now.

::checks dime::


Nope, nothing.

well, yeah it'd be great to see something brand new again, but i suppose i'm just a little disinterested right now and also i haven't really been gung-ho about hurrying up to hear the new stuff in the past few years. i listened to the 2002 stuff and i don't know what it was about it, but hearing the recordings negatively affected how i felt about HTTT and i don't really like that because i eventually ended up liking the album quite a bit (actually being there and just hearing recordings are really two different things).

also, re: looking for last night
the recordings made in europe are typically sub-standard in quality compared to what gets made here. i wouldn't be going out of my way at all to look for any european radiohead recordings unless i know ahead of time that it's actually going to be decent quality. (this is mainly specifically in reference to radiohead and not a broad generalization about all recordings of all bands in europe)

radiohead remix

http://www.vimeo.com/1109226

song kicks in about 1:11 in

instruments used

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX

that was absolutely fucking brilliant.

the geek shall inherit the earth.

Originally posted by distance:
i listened to the 2002 stuff and i don't know what it was about it, but hearing the recordings negatively affected how i felt about HTTT and i don't really like that because i eventually ended up liking the album quite a bit

hum, excellent point. in which case you'll want to stay away from the recordings from dublin (they played it on night 2 as well). i've listened to them and the song sounds decent but incomplete. it's probably way better with the full band (comments on message boards seem to support this belief), but the piano-only versions so far = thom noodling. kinda meh.

for those not as wise as mr. distance:
night 1 MP3
night 2 MP3
night 2 AVI

the AVI probably has the best audio quality, although it's only half the song. i needed to play it in VLC Media Player.

and now is the 2-year anniversary of the aforementioned debut of 'down is the new up'. funny that the first performance started with some sort of thom beat-box kind of thing and how quickly they dropped that by two nights later for montreal night 1. i'm really glad i made that trip. i also think it's funny that 50% of the times i've seen radiohead, it's been in canada.

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Originally posted by distance:
i listened to the 2002 stuff and i don't know what it was about it, but hearing the recordings negatively affected how i felt about HTTT and i don't really like that because i eventually ended up liking the album quite a bit

hum, excellent point. in which case you'll want to stay away from the recordings from dublin (they played it on night 2 as well). i've listened to them and the song sounds decent but incomplete. it's probably way better with the full band (comments on message boards seem to support this belief), but the piano-only versions so far = thom noodling. kinda meh.

for those not as wise as mr. distance:
night 1 MP3
night 2 MP3
night 2 AVI

the AVI probably has the best audio quality, although it's only half the song. i needed to play it in VLC Media Player.

i like the whores on top when you first open the page.

so I have a question that sweetcell can surely answer since he loves to do so.

best way from Baltimore to Camden?

google maps is taking me to the NJTP and getting off at Exit 2.

is that the best way from south? I was thinking it could be since traffic coming into , then out of Philly may be bad

anyone thats been up to Susquehanna Bank, help me out! :)

Originally posted by very sonick:
so I have a question that sweetcell can surely answer since he loves to do so.

best way from Baltimore to Camden?

google maps is taking me to the NJTP and getting off at Exit 2.

is that the best way from south? I was thinking it could be since traffic coming into , then out of Philly may be bad

anyone thats been up to Susquehanna Bank, help me out! :)

For Pearl Jam, my wife and I took the suggestion of other boardies to take the ferry over. Worked out pretty well… definitely a good idea if you want to do anything in Philly before or after. The line to get on the ferry got pretty insane though, so be sure to head over to board as quick as possible after the show.

i will look into that. I dont plan on doing anything in Philly before or after as i wont be leaving Baltimore til after 4pm.

how much is parking at the ferry?

Leaving Philly soon, say hey if you see me!

sorry sonick, i wasn't online for most of the day so i couldn't answer your question.

i got center rail in camden. amazing show, once again. highlights for me were "no surprises", a killer version of "the bends", "idioteque" straight in to "climbing up the walls", "jigsaw", and "go slowly". i was about 8 feet away from the band. got some ridiculous photos.

what he said….great show, good balance between the old stuff and the rainbows stuff, and it all sounded killer

and the pit was great….really small, even at the back of the pit the view was great

Originally posted by sweetcell:
sorry sonick, i wasn't online for most of the day so i couldn't answer your question.

i got center rail in camden. amazing show, once again. highlights for me were "no surprises", a killer version of "the bends", "idioteque" straight in to "climbing up the walls", "jigsaw", and "go slowly". i was about 8 feet away from the band. got some ridiculous photos.

no prob. I ended up driving in from 295 and i hit about 20 minutes of traffic coming in. I left after Street Spirit and was at my house in Baltimore by 12:15am. :)

Radiohead is amazing because they never put a bad show. and when comparing shows you can only compare how good each one was. its tough and it usually ends up being based on other circumstances.

Nissan was not the best because of the weather. Even though i was not "in" the weather, it made the whole experience of going to a show less fun.

This show was great partly because i was with old friends, partly because they played The Bends, which in now 10 times seeing them i have managed to never hear live until last night.

I had a seat about 6 rows dead center from the and left for the lawn 4 songs in cause the crowd SUCKED. buncha boring fools. You think DC doesnt dance!

the Lawn was great, plenty of room and crazy people and the view of the bridge / philly is really sweet from out there too!

All In All, way better than APW festival (which sucked big time….i posted a long rant about its lameness and when i went to post it my connection at worke failed and i lost it all, and didnt feel like retyping it.)

umm, they played Planet Telex in the 2nd encore…your loss! (i didn't go, btw)

Originally posted by very sonick:
I ended up driving in from 295 and i hit about 20 minutes of traffic coming in. I left after Street Spirit and was at my house in Baltimore by 12:15am. :)

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
umm, they played Planet Telex in the 2nd encore…your loss! (i didn't go, btw)

Originally posted by very sonick:
I ended up driving in from 295 and i hit about 20 minutes of traffic coming in. I left after Street Spirit and was at my house in Baltimore by 12:15am. :)

not my ultra favourite song to be honest. though they killed it when i saw them play it at Coachella. As they were off the first time, i tried to think of what song i would stay for that would be worth sitting in 2 hours of traffic leaving the venue in….and i came up with Street Spirit.

in other news, House of Cards is now tied with Jigsaw for best song on In Rainbows.