Radiohead, Live at Bonaroo 2006

In naming Radiohead the best festival band of 2008, David Fricke said:

The best live band in rock played its greatest concert ever on June 17th,2006, at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. "The performances are brilliant,"says Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, "because they are so relaxed." AtBonnaroo, Greenwood, singer Thom Yorke, drummer Phil Selway, and guitarists EdO'Brien and Colin's brother Jonny covered every extreme in their studio catalog,from the violent double-guitar clang of 1995's The Bends to the hauntedelectronics of 2000's Kid A. But it was in the fresh, unfinished songs, latercut for 2007's In Rainbows, that Radiohead peaked that night. "In 'House ofCards,'" Colin says, "50,000 people threw their glow sticks in the air to thiskick-drum beat and Thom's keening voice. In the film [of the concert], it lookslike Thom walked into a party where he feels instantly at home." Some new songssounded flat at that show, Colin admits. "But isn't that what people want to see — thenext part of the story? They don't want some prepackaged supper-club band."

Seeing as none of us were there, we might have to just take his word for it, but Fortunately There's Proof.

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