{"id":479851,"date":"2018-12-13T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=768862"},"modified":"2018-12-13T13:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:22:15","slug":"flashback-radiohead-open-for-alanis-morissette-in-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-radiohead-open-for-alanis-morissette-in-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Radiohead Open for Alanis Morissette in 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

After somehow getting passed over last year in their first year of eligibility, Radiohead<\/a> are finally going to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> in 2019. Unsurprisingly, they didn\u2019t have much to say about the honor when it was announced this morning. \u201cThe members of Radiohead have been surprised to learn of the band\u2019s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2019,\u201d they wrote in a brief statement. \u201cThe band thanks the Hall of Fame voting body and extends congratulations to this year\u2019s fellow inductees.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear if they\u2019re going to pull a Sex Pistols<\/a> and not show up; pull a Kiss<\/a> and show up very unhappily and not perform; pull a Steve Miller<\/a> and show up, play but find a way to complain the entire time; or pull a Pearl Jam<\/a> and suck up any reservations and get into the spirit of the night. It\u2019s a little hard to imagine Thom Yorke<\/a> putting on a tux and smiling his way through \u201cFake Plastic Tree\u201d and \u201cCreep\u201d while Def Leppard and Janet Jackson look on from their tables, but stranger things have happened. If the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame can reunite the Talking Heads, Cream and Led Zeppelin, they can do anything.<\/p>\n

Back in the summer of 1996, not a lot of people thought that Radiohead were headed to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At the time, they were mostly known in America as the \u201cCreep\u201d band that Alicia Silverstone labelled \u201cthe maudlin music of the university station\u201d in Clueless<\/em>. They had just started work on their third album when they agreed to open up for Alanis Morissette<\/a>, then at the absolute pinnacle of her fame thanks to the wild success of Jagged Little Pill.<\/em><\/p>\n

The tour meant that Radiohead got to play to sold-out ampithteaters, but it wasn\u2019t exactly their typical audience. \u201cMy main memory of that tour,\u201d Jonny Greenwood told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> last year, \u201cis playing interminable Hammond organ solos to an audience full of quietly despairing teenage girls.\u201d To Morrissette, it was a very different experience. \u201cIt was such a lovely pairing in my mind,\u201d she told Rolling Stone.<\/em><\/a> \u201cIt was really grounding for me to be with such bona-fide-to-the-bone artists. It felt really validating because the industry was very wild and patriarchal, so to be on the road with such true savants was a gift for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Realizing that nobody in the audience knew anything besides \u201cCreep,\u201d Radiohead used the tour as a chance to road-test some in-progress songs from OK Computer.<\/em> Here\u2019s video of them doing \u201cParanoid Android\u201d in Mansfield, Massachusetts. This is the night they first played \u201cClimbing Up the Walls\u201d and \u201cKarma Police,\u201d even if many in the crowd were bored to tears waiting for Alanis to come out and sing \u201cIronic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The version of \u201cParanoid Android\u201d here is relatively close to the one that appeared on the album, but it does end with one of those \u201cinterminable Hammond organ solos\u201d that Jonny referenced. When they got back into the studio at the end of the tour, they wisely chopped that last bit off and never did it again.<\/p>\n

Radiohead are on a bit of a hiatus right now after touring very heavily over the past two years, and now their fans enter a long \u201cwill they or won\u2019t they\u201d waiting game regarding the Hall of Fame. At this point, it feels like even odds either way.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After somehow getting passed over last year in their first year of eligibility, Radiohead are finally going to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. Unsurprisingly, they didn\u2019t have much to say about the honor when it was announced this morning. \u201cThe members of Radiohead have been surprised to learn of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-479851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 11:36:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}