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Radiohead - Down the Waterfall (the Amnesiac Tour) [Bootleg Compilation]

by: Radiohead

Publication date: 2001

Topics: radiohead, art rock, bootleg, flac, compilation

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

A note on the [intro] and [outro] tracks:

I've split this into four CDs in case anyone wanted to burn them onto discs for personal usage (will genuinely be impressed if you do - please send pictures). I've also designed it so that you can just listen to it as one continuous three-hour set - if you want to do that, just remove the tracks from the play queue of whatever app you're listening to this in.

All tracks sourced from FLACs or SHNs, converted to WAV through TLH, crossfaded and trimmed in Audacity, converted back to FLAC, then tagged, hashed, and sent out to you <3

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

Show sources:

2001-05-28 - satellite broadcast > WAV
2001-05-30 - DPA 4060 > D8
2001-06-01 - TV broadcast > VHS
2001-06-02 - TV broadcast > VHS
2001-06-09 - TV broadcast > DAT
2001-06-23 - unknown SBD transfer
2001-06-27 - DPA 4061 > PCM-M1
2001-06-29 - DSM6 > M1
2001-06-30 - [IEM] + [CSB > M1] + [SS(DSM6S) > PA-6LC3]
2001-07-07 - FM > TCD-D7
2001-07-30 - DPA 4061 > PCM-M1
2001-08-01 - CSC > D8
2001-08-03 - BMC-1 > SPSB-2 > MS722
2001-08-08 - SD > D8
2001-08-14 - MK4 > KC-5 > CMC6 > SX-M2 > SBM-1
2001-08-16 - CSB > MDMS722
2001-08-17 - DPA 4061 > CSB > M1
2001-08-20 - [CSB > M1] + [DPA 4061 > M1]
2001-09-08 - unknown silver CD
2001-09-09 - Beta 98 > MV-100 > M1
2001-09-29 - DSM6S > PA-6LC3 > D100
2001-09-30 - DSM6S > PA-6LC3 > D100
2001-10-02 - DSM6S > PA-6LC3 > D100
2001-10-04 - DSM6S > PA-6LC3 > D100

Cover photo: © Danny Clinch, 2001 (plz don't sue me danny)