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It was me missus special day so I took her to Malibu Gladstones…the restaurant on the beach with the huge windows so you can watch the waves and laff at folks going in the water and their antics…Glastones sushi is terrible but their stuffed salmon is great as wekk as their clam chowder…then instead of doing the Amoeba, I forgo that stop (very big on my part and a sacrilege if I may say so myself) thing since it was her day, I took her to Rodeo Drive …there is this diamond at Harry Winstons for 1.7 mill and its simply beautiful…we stopped at Bijan and she got her present there, god knows why she did not want Versace or something from Fendi but ah well…

But on to Radiogods, I mean Radiohead. This was my first time at the Hollywood Bowl (out of all the venues I’ve been this is my first here haha) so I went to special parking. Greek Theater and Hollywood Bowl parking is “stacked parking” and always a mess...this time the guard told me to go down this one aisle and I said no I’m going to this one right here where there’s room for one more car (mine) to fit at the end so I wont be boxed in. I just slipped in there and he went ok ok. So we take a nice walk down the path to the venue a few 100 yards away.

Its like some festival…you can boring your own food and beer etc here. I’m pissed because I’m going to be stuck paying 7 dollars per beer when we could have brought a cooler with food n drink to imbibe during the event. And I’m especially upset because I left half my crab and shrimp melt at Gladstones because I was not going home anyways. Damn. After dawdling thru the crowd and seeing the goods for sale we mosey to the transport people movers to our seats and enter the actual venue. Wow...it’s The Bowl and I am way the frig back here. So far back and high that I loogied and hit a helicopter window flying overhead and received a stern warning…it is still set in a beautiful inlet within the semi wilderness and u can see the Hollywood sign...a raccoon jumped on my back from the trees we were that far back and I got a scuffle but I think the racoon was more afraid than I was…so after we wipe our noses with napkins form kind souls from our noses bleeding profusely from the elevation we get brew and decide to get lit and talk mess and bitch n moan…but we don’t bitch n moan we just kicked it and talked…

Then the opening band Supergrass? Comes on and they play for 45 minutes…not a bad band . They leave...30 minutes go by

Then comes u know who...Radiohead. The venue is then finally filled and I’m lit and others toke up with some ..some…beautiful smelling Green that was so fresh smelling they must have grown it themselves I swear...but since I’m a good person I did not partake...and someone had ratted on some group who did partake because security came up with they flashlight lookin ...lawd what’s wrong with folks these days? It’s a concert for gawd sake and I can imagine the intensity of being faded like that seeing Radiohead and their light show..

But they came on and rocked it…they even played Creep which they never do…but me misses said they pulled out that one for her because it was her special day. Prolly so. The lighting was nothing short of spectacular. The performance was nothing short of excellent. The set list was :

2+2=5
Sit Down. Stand Up.
Where I End and You Begin
Kid A
Backdrifts
Morning Bell
My Iron Lung
I Might Be Wrong
Creep
Sail To The Moon
Big Ideas (beautiful)
Paranoid Android
Punch Up At a Wedding
Go To Sleep
The Gloaming
Idioteque
No Surprises
There There
first encore:
You And Whose Army?
National Anthem
Wolf at the Door
Fake Plastic Trees
second encore:
Airbag -dedicated to the red hot chilli peppers.
Everything In Its Right Place

Thanks okp for the set list…

Creep was a monster sing a long and we all sang with bad voices that made me realize…u can sing like crap and sound good to singing along to Radiohead …cause Thom wails and whines a lot and it still sounds good does...and Thom was a madman lol…his happy man dance or whatever u ant to call it (def NOT a dry heave) was inspiring and funny at the same time..u go Thom... Johnny too with his spastic geetar playing…that fool is intense…Allthe members worked out their machines and themselves...Johnny with his axe and his contraptions...he ended th e set with him and Thom kneeling on th e edge doing something with some distortion elec maching that created eelc chaos with the back stage lit up with th e leters speeling "forever" going across as each memeber left the stage to the chaotic noise ala Hendrix leaviung his geetar burning with distortion stil flailing..forever going across the stage..and their lighting! They have one of the best lighting rigs ever witnessed. An asault on th e senses that juxtaposed with theior music mkaes for a sensory experience that Pink Floy would have killed for back in their day. All in all Radiohead are the greatest rock n roll band in the world right now...they got their stuff down and. The guy next to me videotaped zoomed the whole thing and I am to receive a copy ( I hope I hope I hope), yippee! The played for 2 hours exactly. And for being far away they still rocked it and made me feel it. I said it before and Ill say it again…Radiohead are funky…ya gotta believe me. If them and Clinton did a song together the world would crack.
God bless Radiohead.
[This message was edited Sat Sep 27 12:11:39 PDT 2003 by rdhull]