The Official Radiohead Idioteque Glow Throw

[PlayaDelWes]

BURN

[amyzzz]

Not really.

[venturas90sgirl]

I was a one-woman glow throw. I gave glow sticks to strangers around me and they were all "what do we do?" Really people.

I represented!!!

[thelastgreatman]

Yeah, I think I was a little bit too busy watching the BEST FUCKING LIGHTING SETUP FOR A ROCK BAND I'VE EVER SEEN to notice your goddamn bracelets hitting other dumb fucks in the back of the head.

[Michelle760]

I was a one-woman glow throw. I gave glow sticks to strangers around me and they were all "what do we do?" Really people.

I represented!!!

What am I suppose to do when someone hands me a glowstick?

[Mr. Dylanja]

Yeah, I think I was a little bit too busy watching the BEST FUCKING LIGHTING SETUP FOR A ROCK BAND I'VE EVER SEEN to notice your goddamn bracelets hitting other dumb fucks in the back of the head.

Have you forgotten about Lights in the Sky?

[thelastgreatman]

Lights in the Sky can suck a dick. Radiohead built an app in my brain.

[Mr. Dylanja]

Did you like the TKOL/new songs?

[thelastgreatman]

Actually yes, I was surprised. I thought Lotus Flower was a flat out banger live which I sorta expected but was surprised at how much it grooved. Identikit was pretty gangster, and whatever the fuck that track was where everything went dark red was delightfully heavy. It could use a little less "choir of angels" Thom-ing in some of the other tracks, but the plus side is that they seemed to do a lot more of their awesome "We are Radiohead, we are going to build this song in piece by piece like it's a computer program, then once it's fully realized we will start deleting lines of code and rhythm again until it all seems like it's chaos, but then because we're FUCKING GENIUSES we just reassemble this shit on your ass and when it builds back to fullness it'll feel like we just went balls deep in you all over again."

[thelastgreatman]

Does anybody have any good pictures of the stage setup from a distance when some of the KOL songs would peak and the screen along the top had those symbol things fully formed? They looked like icons for apps on your phone, also kinda like in Lost when the hatch clock would time out and it would all flip over to hieroglyphs. I can't find any on google and I need them to explain what happened to me that night.

[amyzzz]

Drugs. Drugs happened.

[stinkbutt]

Yeah dude, those weren't there

[thelastgreatman]

Bullshit, I'm getting proof.

[venturas90sgirl]

Yeah, I think I was a little bit too busy watching the BEST FUCKING LIGHTING SETUP FOR A ROCK BAND I'VE EVER SEEN to notice your goddamn bracelets hitting other dumb fucks in the back of the head.

Awwww did I accidentally hit you? I feel so fucking bad about that.

[thelastgreatman]

Hell no, I stay in the back of the field where the sound mix is best and the view is perfect and there are no assholes nearby with florescent jewelry.

[thelastgreatman]

Yeah dude, those weren't there

... upon further investigation, it would appear that I might have been hallucinating that part. Dammit. Well, at least know I know how I'll someday build an app in people's brains.

[Mr. Dylanja]

lol.

"BEST FUCKING LIGHTING SETUP FOR A ROCK BAND I'VE EVER SEEN"


Reznor says, "suck a bag of dicks."

[thelastgreatman]

I'm not even sure that Lights In The Sky would be the second best. It was great an all, but it wasn't as lush or eye-sexing as most of the other Radiohead shows I've seen, to begin with.

[Mr. Dylanja]

And you missed the last Tool tour, right?

Give me a top 5.

[stinkbutt]

If LITS didn't have the illusion of being interactive and moving (which Radiohead's did better) it would've been a pretty big waste

[thelastgreatman]

I think out of all the Tool setups I enjoyed the Lateralus tour's the best, although the last couple rounds were pretty lovely. The problem with LITS to me is that as much as it was a lot of really cool effects and stuff it had less of a cohesive nature to it. The thing I love about the way Radiohead always brings just a giant box shape of lights is that it makes the band feel like a single entity of sound and sight. Since I don't like going up close anyway, I prefer the view from far back when I'm not really looking at them as individual people. They bombard you with such a big pillar of incredibly bright, warm light that it does a better job of creating a consistent mood.

Like, Everything In Its Right Place isn't just a song to me anymore after having seen them use the same basic color scheme for it five or six times. It's now a song sang by a big rectangle of purple, blue, and white light. A lot of the cooler effects of LITS seemed kinda... gimmicky. I couldn't give a shit about his static flashlight trick.