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WaitingForNormal t1_j5toa6d wrote

Reply to comment by JasonDavidWongPargin in TIL Jonny Greenwood pretended to play keyboards for months when he joined Radiohead. He was told "I can’t quite hear what you’re doing, but I think you’re adding a really interesting texture" by btb331

Yeah, I’m having a hard time with this seeing as that dude is a super talented musician.

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Dollarist t1_j5udq42 wrote

To clarify, he’s not saying that he didn’t know how to play keyboards when he joined the band. He’s saying that the previous keyboardist was fired for being too intrusively loud, so he turned the volume of his keyboards all the way down and listened to the songs.

Then he went home and wrote tasteful, unobtrusive keyboard parts. Pretty smart, actually.

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