RADIOHEAD - AMNESIAC TOUR 2001 [Various venues, various dates] | VOODOO WAGON

 Radiohead - Down the Waterfall (Amnesiac Tour 2001)

photo: Danny Clinch-World Trade Centre -Radiohead

A SILENT WAY SPECIAL

Radiohead - 2001 Tour
Down the Waterfall (the Amnesiac Tour) 
Various Venues, Various Dates 

LOCAL BOYS DONE GOOD DIDN’T THEY?!

*Original Notes*

"The dust had barely settled on the groundbreaking Kid A, soon to be acclaimed as an all-time masterwork and a paradigm-shifting album, when Radiohead announced the impending release of their fifth album, Amnesiac. They had half a dozen songs left over from the 2000 tour, plus more that they hadn't replicated live (unsurprising, considering the studio complexity that went into the album - the only two Radiohead LP tracks yet to be played live are both from Amnesiac), and a new album was a good a place as any to release them.

With a new album comes a new tour, and this one was different by design to Kid A - rather than the famous circus tent around continental Europe, instead they'd travel across the Atlantic to play in American arenas. And that they did, playing through not just songs from the two latest records, but others that were still yet to see release! True Love Waits became a semi-regular encore song, while Nude, 'Reckoner', and the still-elusive Follow Me Around popped up at a few shows. And, of course, the famous homecoming gig in Oxford ending with a thunderous 'Creep'.

Radiohead performed at 33 shows (and three television appearances) in 2001, with 44 unique songs appearing. Every single show was taped by savvy audience members, enabling an average pundit twenty years later to look them up, listen to them all, select the best performance of each, and assemble them - simple crossfades or volume shifts, although the volume won't be totally consistent and some tracks were impossible to merge in easily - into a compilation intended as a tribute for the strange, wonderful Amnesiac.

Much like last time, thanks to the Radiohub for enabling me to do this project.
Keep everything in its right place,"
-choc e-Claire

 

Track listing:
Disc 1

    The National Anthem [2001-09-29 Osaka, Japan*]
    Hunting Bears [2001-09-29 Osaka, Japan]
    Morning Bell [2001-09-08 Stockholm, Sweden]
    Lucky [2001-06-01 Nürburg, Germany]
    Optimistic [2001-08-08 Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio]
    Karma Police [2001-09-09 Oslo, Norway]
    Bones [2001-05-28 Vaison-la-Romaine, France]
    Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was [2001-06-30 Santa Barbara, California]
    Pearly* [2001-08-14 Boston, Massachusetts]
    Fake Plastic Trees [2001-06-30 Santa Barbara, California]
    Motion Picture Soundtrack [2001-06-23 George, Washington]
    [outro]

Disc 2

    [intro]
    Airbag [2001-06-01 Nürburg, Germany]
    Just [2001-09-08 Stockholm, Sweden]
    Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box [2001-08-14 Boston, Massachusetts]
    In Limbo [2001-09-30 Osaka, Japan]
    Permanent Daylight [2001-09-08 Stockholm, Sweden]
    Climbing Up the Walls [2001-05-30 Verona, Italy]
    No Surprises [2001-06-02 Nuremberg, Germany]
    Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses [2001-06-23 George, Washington]
    My Iron Lung [2001-08-16 Jersey City, New Jersey]
    Killer Cars [2001-05-30 Verona, Italy
    Creep [2001-07-07 Oxford, England]
    [outro]

Disc 3

    [intro]
    Knives Out [2001-10-02 Tokyo, Japan]
    Lurgee [2001-08-01 Chicago, Illinois]
    Dollars and Cents [2001-07-30 Atlanta, Georgia]
    Exit Music (for a Film) [2001-08-20 Los Angeles, California]
    Street Spirit (Fade Out) [2001-06-29 Santa Barbara, California]
    Follow Me Around [2001-06-29 Santa Barbara, California]
    I Might Be Wrong [2001-06-29 Santa Barbara, California]
    Pyramid Song [2001-06-23 George, Washington]
    Paranoid Android [2001-06-23 George, Washington]
    Idioteque [2001-08-17 Jersey City, New Jersey]
    Everything in Its Right Place [2001-06-30 Santa Barbara, California]
    [outro]

Disc 4

    [intro]
    Life in a Glasshouse [2001-06-09 London, England]
    Like Spinning Plates [2001-08-14 Boston, Massachusetts]
    Talk Show Host [2001-08-03 Barrie, Canada]
    Nude [2001-08-03 Barrie, Canada]
    You and Whose Army? [2001-06-27 Mountain View, California]
    How to Disappear Completely [2001-08-08 Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio]
    Cinnamon Girl [2001-10-04 Yokohama, Japan]
    The Thief [2001-09-30 Osaka, Japan]
    The Tourist [2001-09-30 Osaka, Japan]
    True Love Waits [2001-06-30 Santa Barbara, California]
    The Bends [2001-07-07 Oxford, England]

*with intro from 2001-06-29 Santa Barbara, California

Life In A Glasshouse - Live on Jools - 2001 (Radiohead - Amnesiac)

with Humphrey Littleton, Pete Strange, Jimmy Hastings horn section!

FLAGGING DOWN THE DOUBLE Es : History of Bob Dylan Concert Posters in 6 parts | RAY PADGETT

 

A History of Bob Dylan Concert Posters in Six Parts

Part 1: The 1960s

RAY PADGETT MAR 8 ∙ PAID

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Today we kick off a six-part series exploring the history of Bob Dylan concert posters. There will be one entry per decade, and each will consist of two sections:

1. A look at the “standard” posters of the era. The ones that were used show after show, for an entire tour.

2. My favorite custom one-offs. Particularly cool posters created just for one specific show that were never seen again. This “bonus” part will be for paid subscribers only.

We start today with the 1960s. All images via the essential resource DylanStubs.

Disclaimer: I’m using the term “poster” a little loosely. “Printed concert advertising material” is more accurate, but makes for a cumbersome headline. Working off digital images of these decades later, it can sometimes be difficult to determine whether these were posters hung up on walls, flyers handed out, or even ads in magazines or newspapers. Where I do know, I’ll say.

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The Standard Tour Posters

In the first couple years of the ’60s, Bob Dylan didn’t tour in the same way—maybe a gig out of town here or there, but not weeks or months on the road—so he didn’t really have “standard” concert posters. They were all fairly bespoke for a specific show or festival (where he was lucky if they spelled his name right). We’ll see some of those very-early-’60s posters in the second section.

By 1963, that began to change. He began “touring” more, or at least playing more shows outside the Village coffeehouse scene that would require posters. Plus as a Columbia recording artist with first one then two albums under his belt, he now had the industry backing to create standardized promo materials. Similar designs and photos begin popping up again and again. Like these two versions, same lettering but different photos, one for vertical and one for horizontal:

The Times They Are a-Changin’ cover photo also pops up a lot in ’63-’64, but in different contexts. I’m guessing the photo was given to local promoters as a publicity still and they could use it however. Not quite a “standard” poster design like the ones above, but not totally random either.

Read on and subscribe here . . .

The Pogues - Dirty Old Town, live 2012 (Ewan McColl - 'Jimmy Miller' cover song)

 

The Pogues - Dirty Old Town, live 2012

I met my love by the gas works wall Dreamed a dream by the old canal I kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town Dirty old town Clouds a drifting across the moon Cats a prowling on their beat Spring's a girl in the street at night Dirty old town Dirty old town Heard a siren from the docks Saw a train set the night on fire Smelled the spring on the smoky wind Dirty old town Dirty old town I'm going to make me a good sharp axe Shining steel tempered in the fire Will chop you down like an old dead tree Dirty old town Dirty old town I met my love by the gas works wall Dreamed a dream by the old canal I kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town Dirty old town Dirty old town Dirty old town

[Ewan McColl]

with thanks to Twilightzone for the reminder

Artist(s) of the Day | Leonor Fini by Dora Maar

 For International Women’s Day

Leonor Fini by Dora Maar

Poem of The Day: The Means To A Happy Life - Martial | poets.org

The Means to Attain Happy Life

Martial

translated from the Latin by Henry Howard Martial, the things that do attain   The happy life be these, I find:— The richesse left, not got with pain,    The fruitful ground; the quiet mind; The equal friend; no grudge, no strife;    No charge of rule nor governance; Without disease the healthful life;    The household of continuance; The mean diet, no delicate fare;    True wisdom join’d with simpleness; The night dischargèd of all care,    Where wine the wit may not oppress; The faithful wife, without debate;    Such sleeps as may beguile the night: Contented with thine own estate,    Ne wish for death, ne fear his might.

about this poem “The Means to Attain Happy Life” is a translation of the Roman poet Martial’s “Epigram 10.47.” About the poem, literary critic T. K. Whipple writes in Martial and the English Epigram: From Sir Thomas Wyatt to Ben Johnson (The University of California Press, 1925), “I quote Surrey’s lines in full, because they are apparently the first English rendering of Martial, because they are felicitous and at the same time almost literal….” He continues, “It is easy to see why Surrey, who had little in common with Martial, should have chosen this one epigram for translation. It falls in with the contemporary taste for general reflection; and it expresses that love of country simplicity as opposed to the corruption of the court which was a fashionable and no doubt sincere sentiment of the time. It also illustrates the wider range allowed the Latin epigram, for Surrey’s poem could scarcely be called an English epigram.”

Martial, born Marcus Valerius Martialis around AD 38–41 in Bilbilis, Roman Hispania (modern-day Spain), is a Roman poet best known for his epigrams. Considered to have perfected the form, his surviving work consists of fifteen books of epigrams, totaling over fifteen hundred poems. He died in Bilbilis, Roman Hispania, around AD 101–104.  more at poets.org

John Fahey - Stomping Tonight on The Old Pennsylvania Alabama Border [Your Past Come Back to Haunt You] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/810437268231880704/john-fahey-stomping-tonight-on-the-old

The Divine Comedy - The Last Time I Saw the Old Man (2025) | Guess I’m Dumb

Guess I’m Dumb posted this (below) but no clip, no vid so here it is . . .we like The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)

 The Divine Comedy - The Last Time I Saw the Old Man (2025)

"You’ll be there one day, with a fading parent(s). It’s not easy.  Neil Hannon paints a moving and very real portrait.” Guess I’m Dumb

He was moving very slowly
And he didn’t seem to know me 

So for Guess I’m Dumb here ’tis TWICE!

The Divine Comedy - The Last Time I Saw the Old Man (Later... with Jools Holland)

Birthdays: GARY NUMAN

 Happy birthday to Gary Numan, born as Gary Webb in London on this day in 1958. 

There's a man outside in a long coat, grey hat, smoking a cigarette.

Gary Numan (Tubeway Army)1979

Are ‘Friends’ Electric?

THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST

Captain Beefheart - American Bandstand Phone Interview June 18, 1966 “DIDDY WAH DIDDY!"

Captain Beefheart American Bandstand Phone-in Interview June 16 1966 

with Dick Clark!

It's Captain Beefheart on the Hot Line at American Bandstand on June 18, 1966. After Don answers some probing questions from one of the shows dancers everyone gets to jump around to Diddy Wah Diddy! Of course . . . .

say what now?

Say Diddy Wah Diddy!

From Gary Lucas

(on Flickenabokk of course)

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY | playlist from Nonesuch Natalie Merchant, Molly Tuttle, Rhiannon Giddens, k.d.lang, Laurie Anderson and more

Happy International Women’s Day! We’re celebrating with our newly updated playlist of music performed and written by some of the women who inspire us every day, like Laurie Anderson, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Rhiannon Giddens, Molly Tuttle, Mary Halvorson, Caroline Shaw, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Yasmin Williams, Emmylou Harris, k.d. lang, Natalie Merchant, Julia Bullock, The Staves, and others.

 You can hear the playlist on Spotify and Apple Music at https://nonesuch.lnk.to/womensday