Have You Ever Heard Radiohead's 'Idioteque' ... on Wood?
Listen to Radiohead and The Velvet Underground played on the world's first laser-cut wood LPs
... Third Man Records might be making LP covers out of laser-cut wood, but software designer Amanda Ghassael has made an actual LP out of the same material. Ghassael used a 3D printer to cut three songs into wood discs--
Radiohead's "Idioteque" into plywood and The Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale" and "Sunday Morning" into a maple. There are limitations to the process--the grooves have to be about 10 times wider than they are on normal vinyl, for instance--but soon, everyone with a 3D printer or laser etching capabilities should be able to ruin their turntable needles with ease. Ghassael detailed her whole process for Instructables, and it's pretty nerdy. She found that the tracks that work best (and work is a relative term here, because the songs just sort of sound okay on wood) are "very full in the lower to mid range, but also very sparse overall." More Great Job, Internet! Watch Donald Glover, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, and The Wire's Andre Royo buy records Listen to
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... of the cut and some tricks I used to avoid crashing the laser cutter dropped the actual precision down by ~1/6). The audio on the records has a bit depth between 4-5 (typical mp3 audio is 16 bit) and a sampling rate up to about 4.5kHz (mp3 is 44.1kHz). Ghassaei has also made the vector files available to download, allowing 3D printer owners to produce their own bespoke pine-yl. The optimum tracks to use? "Songs that are very full in the lower to mid range, but also very sparse overall are best". [via The Vinyl Factory] Hear
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Radiohead
(1987-)
Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar)
Ed O'Brien (guitar)
Jonny Greenwood (guitar)
Colin Greenwood (bass)
Phil Selway (drums)
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Their original name was On A Friday. They switched to Radiohead in 1989 because it was the name of a Talking Heads song.
They started playing together and writing songs in 1987. They waited until 1991 to sign a record deal and start recording because they wanted to finish college. Their first album came out in 1993.
Used the first "Active Buddy" computer program to promote their album Amnesiac. Called "Googly Minotaur," it was programed to chat with fans and answer questions about Radiohead. The program is an extension of the AOL Instant Messaging system.
Radiohead's first #1 album was Kid A, released in October 2000. A few months later, Amnesiac debuted at #2 and sold 25,000 copies more then its predecessor. The albums were recorded at the same sessions.
All the members of Radiohead were students at Abingdon School (near Oxford). They all still live nearby.
Johnny is Colin's younger brother. When he started playing with the rest of the band, he was only 13.
Their 1997 album OK Computer was made in a manor near Bath owned by actress Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman).
Yorke was born with a paralyzed left eye. It has been partially corrected through various operations. Continuing with the "eye" theme, Johnny is colorblind.
Yorke says he was inspired to become a rock star after seeing Queen guitarist Brian May on television.
Yorke has done duets with both R.E.M., Björk and PJ Harvey. (thanks, Tara - philadelphia, PA)
Their 2003 album Hail to the Thief has been hailed as their "return to rock" album. Though it debuted at #3 on the charts, it sold more copies on its debut than any of their previous albums. (thanks, Jeff - Kendall Park, NJ)
O'Brien is 6'5''. He was a barman for a time before joining the band.
Selway is nicknamed "Mad Dog" because of his good manners. It's kind of like when a fat guy is nicknamed "Slim."
Thom Yorke (Mojo, April 1995): "We're a mess. But it's a great mess, a glorious mess."
Yorke's left eye was affected by ptosis, meaning a drooping of the upper eyelid. He's had several surgical operations in an attempt to correct the condition.
When he performs, Jonny Greenwood wears a splint on his right arm. This helps protect his wrist and ease muscle fatigue. Plus, he likes the ritual of putting on the splint before shows, comparing it to a boxer taping up before a fight. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 5)
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Also there is an excellent site called The Evolution Of Rock Bass Playing McCartney Style by Denis Alstrand. In it Stanley Clarke,Will Lee,Sting and Billy Sheehan all talk about what a great melodic and influential bass player Paul has always been. The Rolling Stone Album Guide also calls Paul a remarkable bass player and calls John and Paul the two greatest song writers in the history of rock!
By the way,I was born in 1965 during the middle of The Beatles recording career and I have been a huge fan especially a huge highly impressed John and Paul fan since I was 9 years old I got my first Beatles book for my 11th birthday and I had every album by the age of 13.
The Beatles were mostly a true *ROCK* group (and the best ever as every major survey poll of over 1,000 people age 18 and up has shown most people agree with!) they were *never* a "boy band" and anyone who knows The Beatles history knows this is totally inaccurate and ridiculous! They started out playing 8 hours a night for 2 years wearing tight leather black pants and jackets,cursing,eating,smoking and hitting each other on stage and going to bed with so many groupies in the sleazy strip clubs of Hamburg Germany. Their cleaned up image was fake and created by their manager Brian Epstein who told them they had to go along in order to make it big. John Lennon resented and regretted this the most.
Read The Beatles new biography by rock journalist Bob Spitz,Shout By Phillip Norman, The Beatles Anthology etc to learn about their true origins. Also I always considered The Beach Boys to be a pop band not a rock band and The Beatles had a much harder electric sound than The Beach Boys who mostly wrote beach surfing music. I have never heard any Beach Boys songs played on my classic rock stations only on oldies stations,but my classic rock station plays a lot of Beatles songs and even has a 2 hour Sunday morning program,Breakfast With The Beatles hosted by 44 year old huge Beatles fan and expert DJ Andre Gardner.
Also John Lennon always said he really loves rock and roll and all of their idols were the early pioneers of rock, Buddy Holly,Little Richard, Elvis and Chuck Berry who John especially really loved. Most rock critics and music stores accurately classify The Beatles as a *rock* band not a "pop" band! They wrote so many great *rock* songs too many to list here. And many people have pointed out that Paul's 1986 Helter Skelter on The White Album and John's I Want You She's So Heavy from Abbey Road were the two first true heavy metal songs. Many music critics have called Sgt.Pepper an art rock album even though it's not as rocky as a lot of their other albums and also Abbey Road has been considered an art rock album. Even heavy metal frontman Ozzy Osbourne says in a 2001 Bender Online magazine interview that The Beatles Are The Greatest Band To Ever Walk The Earth! He's been a huge fan since he was a teenager and She Loves You was one of the first records he ever bought!
P.S. The Beatles are the best!!
Ok Computer, Kid A, Hail to the thief, The Bends, vs. Help!,Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, The Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, Abbey Road.
Radiohead is great, one of the greates bands of the 20th century and THE greatest of the 21st (so far) but Lennon/McCartney is the Greatest composing team ever, and they rank 3rd all time only to Bach and Beethoven, Radiohead can't compete.
That said, I find Radiohead to be an incredibly thoughtful and artistic band. They are reminiscent of Pink Floyd in how they seem to be operating on a totally different level than most bands, with their own distinctive style, while still managing to produce original works. Definitely among my top 5 bands.
Thom Yorke is GOD.