tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039838487790884740.post-51649178409800009062008-05-16T11:08:00.007-05:002008-05-16T11:46:26.622-05:002008-05-16T11:46:26.622-05:00<div class="img-ilus" style="width: 405px; height: 250px; text-align: left;"><img src="http://twoism9.googlepages.com/radiohead.jpg" height="240" width="395" /></div> I was fortunate enough to see Radiohead this past Wednesday at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in St. Louis. This was the second time I've seen my favorite band, and the third will be this August at the wonderful <a href="http://www.95total.com/2008/04/lollapalooza-2008-lineup-announced.html">Lollapalooza</a> (which also features Rage, NIN, and Kanye West, among many others).<br /><br />The opener was Liars, a band that I do like. However, the set was sort of uninspired. It's just really hard for me to get into a show at an amphitheater if it's daylight and there aren't any people there yet. The lead guy, though, was very interesting, to say the least.<br /><br />The Radiohead show was really pretty fantastic, incorporating the best light show I've ever seen done for a concert, in person or otherwise. It's really too hard to describe, and I can say that catching a glimpse via YouTube videos does not really do it justice. Here is a picture I took at the very end of the show (spoiler to some degree, I suppose):<br /><br /><div class="img-ilus" style="width: 405px; height: 250px; text-align: left;"><img src="http://twoism9.googlepages.com/radiohead2.jpg" height="240" width="395" /></div>This picture reminds me of some kind of prayer done at one of those radical Evangelical, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486358/">Jesus Camp</a>-ish churches in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt">Bible Belt</a>. Whoever Yorke &amp; Co. hired for this tour to do the stage set-up is really creative and genius in many ways.<br /><br />As for the performance: I'm not sure if it was because it was so early in the tour or if Radiohead is just in a good head space right now, but they we're really playing well, and looked to be having a lot of fun doing it. They had awesome energy and overall it was probably the best show I've seen in my short lifetime.<br /><br />There's really not much point in going into more detail about it because I can assure that if you care you already have seen them this tour or have tickets in the future, or you don't care about Radiohead at all. Those seem to be the two general constituencies.<br /><br />You can see my pictures from the show on my <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/20422466@N07/sets/72157605087047244/">flickr set</a>.<br /><br />P.S. Props to Radiohead for a., covering Portishead in their sound check, and b., playing the entire Burial album "Untrue" in between the Liars and Radiohead sets.Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13251333406423806427noreply@blogger.com3