Radiohead podcast
<3 pure sonic <3
I bookmarked this NPR Radiohead concert podcast a while back when I first stumbled onto it, and just got around to having a space of time to listen to it tonight. WOWOWOW The sound quality is awesome (at least on my headphones).
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94315732&sc=nl&cc=mn-20080910
The concert took place at the Santa Barbara Bowl, an amazing steep little concert space cut into the sandstone hills in a neighborhood just a few blocks from the ocean. It was built originally for the Fiesta horse shows that were started gosh, back in the 1920's I think. At some point (late 90's?) it was restored and rebuilt into a great smaller scale stage. I saw a regge concert there as well as a BB King show. Some of the million dollar homes at the top of the hill surrounding the stage have a view of the concerts and throw parties on concert days.
Here's the description from the NPR music guy of the concert:NPR.org, September 5, 2008 - When I think of the best concerts I've seen, I always flash back to Pink Floyd in early 1972. Almost two years before the band released what would become Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd performed the entire suite of songs to the amazement of us all. We'd never heard any of the songs (then titled Eclipse: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics), and with its quadrophonic sound, it remains the most massive musical surprise I've experienced.
Radiohead's show at the Santa Barbara Bowl came as close for musicianship and creativity as any show I've seen in 37 years. I've seen a lot of shows.
These guys write great songs, and sometimes you can even sing along to them, but what they do better than any band is create a sonic adventure - a soundscape which, at its best, stretches time and allows the mind to wander and rejuvenate. I think of it as resetting the synapses. Creativity breeds creativity. When the music was over, I felt unboxed and changed and pretty darn happy. Drugs are overrated; music is underrated.
ETA: Hahahah! my cat thinks something must be really wrong with me when I sing along with Thom Yorke, as she's kneeding my chest and nuzzling my face meowing loudly all of sudden.
I bookmarked this NPR Radiohead concert podcast a while back when I first stumbled onto it, and just got around to having a space of time to listen to it tonight. WOWOWOW The sound quality is awesome (at least on my headphones).
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94315732&sc=nl&cc=mn-20080910
The concert took place at the Santa Barbara Bowl, an amazing steep little concert space cut into the sandstone hills in a neighborhood just a few blocks from the ocean. It was built originally for the Fiesta horse shows that were started gosh, back in the 1920's I think. At some point (late 90's?) it was restored and rebuilt into a great smaller scale stage. I saw a regge concert there as well as a BB King show. Some of the million dollar homes at the top of the hill surrounding the stage have a view of the concerts and throw parties on concert days.
Here's the description from the NPR music guy of the concert:NPR.org, September 5, 2008 - When I think of the best concerts I've seen, I always flash back to Pink Floyd in early 1972. Almost two years before the band released what would become Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd performed the entire suite of songs to the amazement of us all. We'd never heard any of the songs (then titled Eclipse: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics), and with its quadrophonic sound, it remains the most massive musical surprise I've experienced.
Radiohead's show at the Santa Barbara Bowl came as close for musicianship and creativity as any show I've seen in 37 years. I've seen a lot of shows.
These guys write great songs, and sometimes you can even sing along to them, but what they do better than any band is create a sonic adventure - a soundscape which, at its best, stretches time and allows the mind to wander and rejuvenate. I think of it as resetting the synapses. Creativity breeds creativity. When the music was over, I felt unboxed and changed and pretty darn happy. Drugs are overrated; music is underrated.
ETA: Hahahah! my cat thinks something must be really wrong with me when I sing along with Thom Yorke, as she's kneeding my chest and nuzzling my face meowing loudly all of sudden.