Song · Radiohead
Rain Down
Seventy-four minutes and twenty-nine seconds into Meeting People Is Easy, Thom Yorke soundchecks something that was never released and never played at a show.
1998
a soundcheck in japan
It was never released and never played at a show. The cameras making Meeting People Is Easy caught Yorke soundchecking in Japan, and the fragment sits at 1:14:29 of the film. He sings the title at the start, the same words as the slow section of “Paranoid Android”, and then hums up and down through octave scales over a guitar.
The 2003 site logged it with that timecode. Joey Gallagher transcribed the guitar, and the site's tab section kept his tab. It starts on a picking pattern that turns into half-strumming after about the fifth chord, and every chord gets a bar except the second, a G sharp, which is held for four. He guessed it was Yorke warming up his voice, and thought it might end up in a song one day.
the video
An early attempt at the section, out of the OK Computer outtakes.· ishaanwatch on youtube →
Tabs (1)
sources2
- This site's own preserved 2003 lyrics pages, which give the timecode in Meeting People Is Easy.
- This site's own tablature archive: Joey Gallagher's guitar tab of “Rain Down”, for the words, the hummed scales and the chords.