Singing with DJ Thom Thomas and his father last weekend, when he showed up to help them varnish the elder Thomas' rehabbed 27-foot Bayliner fishing boat. We had writer's block, so we wrote some subpar songs on the guitar and then during the final mixing process we took out the guitar and patched in some free jazz-like horns a la Ornette Coleman. We're not just a rock band, people - we are artists, you see. We listen to Jazz. Angry that no one knows his name and fearing that drum machines are one EP away from replacing him, Radiohead's drummer secretly books an industry-only promotional tour without telling his bandmates.
Cameras are there to capture it all.
Needless to say, Yorke is rendered unconscious for most of the 3-hour epic. Following the exact same itinerary that U2 booked for its 1987 North American tour, watch Radiohead make a private stop to Elvis' Graceland, where guitarist Ed O'Brien sits on The King's motorcycle and mocks Larry Mullen Jr.'s girlish sobbing. In an effort to show their lighter side, Radiohead decide to make a documentary not of their stateside stage performances, but of their traveling charity softball games. For a band that had already released two acclaimed major-label albums, they acted like such assholes when people started jocking them after the release of OK Computer . Then, to release a documentary about how grueling it is to be a touring rockstar was the ultimate slap in the face to the buying public.