edpaffjr.comI took a gamble and headed to the Radiohead concert last night at Riverbend. A friend had an extra ticket in the lawn, so I figure it was worth checking out. Many people regard them as a great live band, but unfortunately I just didn’t get it. I will admit that I’m not very familiar with much of their catalog, but only one song that I even remotely recognized was played. After glancing through the setlist, it seems that most of the material was from the bands last couple albums, which I have never listened to.
I will admit that the light show was pretty impressive, but it was a little hard to view many of the special effects from the lawn. The normally somewhat helpful video screens on either side of the lawn were terrible last night. Rather than alternating between shots of the band members the screen was always divided into sixths and filled with grainy imagery. Plus with Riverbends terrible sight lines from the lawn (can’t they find a way to support the roof structure without massively obstructive steel columns?), I could not get into the show at all.
Terrible View From Riverbend Lawn
Sometimes gambling on a show pays off, but it doesn’t always work that way. I can now scratch Radiohead off my list of bands to see and realize that most of their music is not for me.
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