Raidohead - In Rainbows - Production questions

[dylansmale]

SLC has a desert, mountains, lots of salt, and kewl plants, but the people here are a bunch of petty ass holes. I've been many places around the world and the people are always way better than here. I'm half French too, France is pretty kewl. I'm not that young. We could all learn something from eachother, etc, etc. haha

[tone delux]

Originally Posted by Savernake

If anyone is willing to buy it from me, I will try and get in tottenham house and get an impulse of the larger rooms. Give me till end of summer!

cool. i'll send you a PM.

[Savernake]

Didn't get your PM but I've been wanting to check out the grounds again for a while. My metal hear solid loving friend will gladly join me.

Thing is, I heard it was all being developed to be a hotel soon, but that's been in talks for years so hopefully its still empty. At the very least I'll get as many pictures as possible. I've already got some from the last mission around there. On the extra disc from in rainbows there's a picture of one of the band in front of this kind of archway, which leads into a big courtyard where the building was stables for loads of horses a while back. Walking into that courtyard was one of the creepiest and memorable things in my life. It was a beautiful day, but there was some thing silent and ghostly about the place, I've really never known anything like it. After an afternoon checking out all the stables, the gardeners house, and seriously overgrown gardens, we planned to return the next day to check out the main event, totenham house, but after our patient entry to the grounds it seemed gardeners were mowing and the chances of getting spotted were too high. Can't wait to go back now!

[Savernake]

Forgot to say, listened to rekoner again today. The intro sounds flawless, in fact the whole thing. Try the intro with headphones one ear at a time - totally separate sounds but the psycho acoustics work to make it fit perfectly. Amazing engineering.

[bexarametric]

I saw Radiohead play in Dallas last night.

What's the point?

Seriously. I will never be that good.

This is the fourth time I have seen them. They just get better and better.

It's kind of funny that there are people on here trying to compare Radiohead's "eras" They are all different, but sometimes they run into each other. For instance. The song "Nude" was written before Kid A. It's on the Meeting People Is Easy video. Back then the song was call "Big Ideas (don't get any)". It was previewed in about 1998 (10 fing years ago) while they were on tour supporting OK Computer.

I personally can find greatness in everything since The Bends. I like it all.

[monkeyxx]

Radiohead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok with that out of the way

I think Colin uses Ampegs and Ashdown heads with his maple board P Bass.




I highly recommend hopping on bit torrent or over to VH1.com to see the Godrich-produced "live in the basement" video of half of the In Rainbows album and some of the older songs. lots of gear to look at 0)-(0

U47 over the center of the drumset, with the coles ribbons left and right and 414 on toms. U87s on the AC30s. RE20 on vocals. U47fet on bass amp. sounds amazing.

Watch Bodysnatchers (Radiohead_In Rainbows_From The Basement) | Exclusive VH1 Video Playlist | VH1.com

[monkeyxx]

sorry, I meant U87s on the AC30s

[sctt_stone]

If you listen to the lyrics everything since Kid A has been about personal experiences in Thomes life.
Things he has read. Things people have said to him. Politicians. Feelings.
Listen to the words and you will know.
Perhaps the feelings were induced by living a drug life but the songs are not by any means about getting high.
Next you will say that Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is about getting high on acid!
The nerve

Originally Posted by dylansmale

most of their songs relate to...getting stoned. If you've listened to their music you would have known that after their first CD. And you would have to be a complete moron to not have gotten that after Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief.

You would probably be a complete moron to think their music didn't have anything to do with weed. And a complete moron to think it didn't have to do with anything else other than weed.

the lyrics "smoke pot" are even evident in Hail To The Thief.

[desol]

Originally Posted by dylansmale

Why are they recording on an API console??? I would think they would have recorded that album on some Neve pres and some others, but not API. Wow, I need some kind of explanation.

Why not?

[desol]

Originally Posted by Jack P

I dig the pictures of the recording with the vintage API console..

[monkeyxx]

Originally Posted by Silver Sonya

If you read this article, the band expresses its notorious and oft-repeated disdain for gear nerds and audiophiles.

They use the same tools we all use. Except that they make more interesting choices with them.
-- c

sorry, chad, I don't think we all use vintage neumanns and neves, api desks, and $11,000 limiters!!!!! (ear 660)

he-he

[boyinthebox]

Originally Posted by dylansmale

most of their songs relate to...getting stoned.

Just because you get stoned and listen to their music, doesn't mean their songs relate to getting stoned.

I think you asserting that pot is a big part of what they do is simply rediculous. The only thing that is a big part of what they do is simple: making music together. The reason for the several years without an album release, is simply because most of the members have busy lives, young children, and families. To quote Thom Yorke, and Ed OBrien:

TY: It's harder to actually get time to work. It's harder to find your reason to work, and that isn't because you don't need to work, it's because you think, "More work? This is a young person's thing." But I don't agree with that at all. Music is music, and that's ****ing nonsense. The reverse is true. There's that, but there's also the issues you face, that you're not the center of attention any more; you have children, and they are.

EO: It's a very human thing. Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something—emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life. This record really does that. It's not a thing that's being written by someone who's in an exclusive position. It's something that's felt by everyone.

These quotes are from an interview Radiohead gave in July. These quotes basically back up exactly what sctt_stone said. Perceptions and assumptions hardly make something *REAL* or *FACTUAL*.

Regardless, great album, love the production, and if anyone has any other information regarding some of the engineering aspects, recording aspects, or general song information, I would love to hear it. I am inspired in many ways by Radiohead and how they achieve such unique final products through atypical methods of writing and song experimentation.

Cheers!