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wiffleplop t1_j5t0lr9 wrote

A good example of “fake it til you make it”.

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BernieEcclestoned t1_j5t6mvt wrote

Replying to fillyfan96 (#1,482,557)

I worked for Native Instruments at the time so it would have been Absynth, FM7 and Reaktor. Tried to give them to him to get some PR, but he wouldn't accept and paid full price iirc.

If they were used, it would have been on Amnesiac or Hail to the Thief I guess, but I'm never sure how much hardware vs software they use because they have loads on stage but also had PowerBooks running.. and Reaktor can reproduce pretty much anything if you know what you're doing.

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bkconn t1_j5tv3s6 wrote

Replying to JasonDavidWongPargin (#1,484,465)

I mean, if you read the article, the guy spells it out pretty clearly so there's not a lot of room for confusion.. hard to tell in text, but he seemed like he was being honest. The story being true is funny and crazy to believe lol

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Ray_Pingeau t1_j5tvm0z wrote

Reminds me of the formation of the punk band Crass. They knew a guy who wanted to be in a band but couldn’t play an instrument so he just Rand his hand up and down the neck of a guitar while strumming the string. Eventually he developed a style that made the band what it was.

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greenearrow t1_j5u86sk wrote

Replying to JasonDavidWongPargin (#1,484,465)

The article gives the details, but he felt like they fired the last guy for playing too loud, so he'd play the keyboard turned off. He'd practice at home and slowly starting turning the keyboard up until he thought it balanced.

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frankybling t1_j5u8ef2 wrote

I think Greenwood’s attitude was that he wasn’t up to his standards of knowing how to play… which from my listening over the years is damned near perfection seeking. His version of not knowing how to play is way different than 98% (random made up number) of the rest of us “not knowing how to play”.

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Dollarist t1_j5udq42 wrote

Replying to WaitingForNormal (#1,484,662)

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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substantial-freud t1_j5udqe7 wrote

Replying to Desper8lyseekntacos (#1,487,428)

More than thirty years ago, I was watching an interview with Ringo on TV and he boasted, “I’m the greatest drummer in the world.”

Alone in the room, I immediately shot back “You’re not even the greatest drummer in the Beatles.”

I have since heard that (admittedly fairly obvious) retort attributed to a dozen celebrities.

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Jankman765 t1_j5umtpv wrote

The “There Will Be Blood” Score by him is fucking phenomenal.

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sum_dude44 t1_j5uq4bk wrote

which is funny b/c he ended up being their most talented musician

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Xeynid t1_j5ure2k wrote

From the article, he didn't pretend to know HOW. He already knew how to play. He just pretended to do it.

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KingKratom00 t1_j5uskru wrote

Replying to Prophet_of_Entropy (#1,489,008)

There is no other way to acquire info on a band that was active 60 years or so ago dude except from other people talking about it. Are you mentally disabled? You think I can just hop in a time machine and buzz back to the 60s to see for myself?

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LostXL t1_j5v8dp7 wrote

Perfect example of a garbage misleading post title, it subtly tries to manipulate you into thinking someone didn’t know how to play, and that they tricked the band into thinking they were playing.

The other guy was too intrusive, this guy started with the volume low so he could get a feel for the music and slowly raised the volume. When he found the right volume the band said “oh this volume works it’s not intrusive”.

Two completely different stories, one wacky one benign. But at least you get some karma and people can click your username and go to your horrible 1 upvote posts selling stuff.

Choke on this downvote.

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__System__ t1_j5vj7m5 wrote

Must be hard when every song is cloudy with a chance of rain. Good for him! It's all on playback anyhow.

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Minuted t1_j5w9mjn wrote

Replying to thisismyname03 (#1,492,797)

Someone mentioning Conflict on reddit, don't think I've ever seen them mentioned before.

Slaughter of Innocence was my top listened to song last year on Spotify. Message to Who was third.

Not even that into anarcho punk or punk itself these days, just learned of them a few years ago and was hooked.

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SomberGuitar t1_j5xfftw wrote

I had an open jam once a week, and some dude showed up on LSD and played Disney tunes on the piano behind us while we played Black Sabbath. It was bonkers and sometimes worked.

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wallabee_kingpin_ t1_j5xz6z2 wrote

Replying to frankybling (#1,486,931)

Greenwood's reason is very clearly spelled out at the top of the article, and it's not what you've speculated here.

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>“Thom [Yorke]’s band had a keyboard player — [whom] I think they didn’t get on with because he played his keyboard so loud,” he told NPR’s Terry Gross. “And so when I got the chance to play with them, the first thing I did was make sure my keyboard was turned off … I must have done months of rehearsals with them with this keyboard, and they didn’t know that I’d already turned it off.”

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