All in all more than $572,000 was raised and it was an unforgettable, intimate gig for all at the 1,300-capacity theater. Here’s the setlist:

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Video from the show…

Radiohead “Everything In Its Right Place” live at Fonda (Haiti relief)

Radiohead – “Morning Bell” (1.24.10 Haiti Benefit in LA)

Radiohead “Weird Fishes” live 1.24.10 Henry Fonda Music Box

After being somewhat underwhelmed by Radiohead from outside Lollapalooza earlier this month, I was completely blown away last night at the Hollywood Bowl. I had looked forward to seeing Radiohead at the Bowl all year as it is my favorite venue — the open [dry] air element lends itself to pristine sound and with the elaborate light/visual show put on by Radiohead’s crew, sitting in the Bowl felt not unlike floating in outer space. Jonny Greenwood is one of the greatest guitarists of our time. I’m saying this now, because, it’s not just his tone and creativity, but his ability to rip away in multiple directions and also disappear into the atmosphere of a song or play straight acoustic. Kind of like Jimmy Page. And while I like to make fun of Thom Yorke for mumbling and moaning incessantly, he was very effective and very sharp utilizing his voice as a melodic instrument. And the guy is no hack at guitar/piano either.

I snuck some short video clips with my crappy digital [still] — it’s worth sharing the handful of 15-second clips combined in the video below to give you an idea of the light show. The sound is horrible on the camera, although it was pristine at the show… and yes, the video may be nauseating, but, hey, you’ve been warned. Further below, the setlist and a few more videos from the end of the show of 1-2 minutes each.

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The setlist (via Variety):

Reckoner/Optimistic/There There/15 Step/All I Need/Pyramid Song/Weird Fishes/Arpeggi/The Gloaming/Videotape/Talk Show Host/Faust Arp/Tell Me Why*/No Surprises/Jigsaw Falling Into Place/The Bends/The National Anthem/Nude/Bodysnatchers/Encore: House of Cards/Planet Telex/Go Slowly/Fake Plastic Trees/True Love Waits Intro/Everything In Its Right Place** Encore 2: Cymbal Rush/Karma Police/Idioteque

* = Neil Young cover featuring Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke on acoustic guitars

** = Thom sings two minutes of “True Love Waits” on a sustained dark organ before launching into “Everything In Its Right Place”

Great show and great overall experienced at a packed-out Bowl. And for the first time I can remember — including the Flaming Lips show in which the audience was repeatedly urged to stand and be rowdy by Wayne Coyne — nearly EVERYBODY was standing for almost the entire duration of the 2+ hour set. Even during the slow songs.

And In Rainbows is chock full of great songs. I never realized it as much as last night — hearing live the songs that I’d only haphazardly sampled on .mp3 — but IR is more than a legitimate Radiohead record and live, it really stands out as the band’s coming full circle from young, spunky rock band, to Amnesiac ambience and back to a lush, expansive, and dynamic rock sound. But still, the occasional song which sounds like it can only end with Thom Yorke in a mental ward or at least upping his meds. But at the end of the show — Yorke really got his freak on — dancing manically in red leather pants at center stage… it could have been the Stones or U2, but it was much better than that. It was Radiohead.

Ticketmaster Can Still Bite Me, originally uploaded by revolute.

If Radiohead really wanted me to go to their Monday night (8/25) show at the Hollywood Bowl, would they actually send me to Ticketmaster’s proprietary scalping site, TicketsNow?!? I didn’t think so. Take your overpriced ticket scam and eat it Ticketbastard… you are to blame for holding tickets to resell for your own profit ala the Hanna Montana fiasco and everything else. Count me in on any class action, people.

Oh yeah, and I’d love to buy your extra pair of Radiohead tickets at face value.

Screenshot via my Facebook minifeed. Way to go, Beacon!

“In Radiohead’s new video for ‘House of Cards,’ no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects,” according to the band’s YouTube channel.

After hearing about Radiohead’s first-of-its kind video, Google:

[A]greed with the band that it would be great to give you a deeper look into how all of this was done, and even a chance to play with the data yourself, under a license that allows remixing… You can view the video, watch a short documentary about how it was made, interact with the video in 3D, download some of the data, and download an iGoogle theme and gadget – all at http://code.google.com/radiohead.

Radiohead – ‘House of Cards’

Watch The Making of ‘House of Cards” below:

“[T]he data (although not the music) used to produce this music video are being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License on the Google Code site,” according to Creative Commons board member Joi Ito. “This combination of Open Source licenses for code and Creative Commons licenses for data/content is very “good idea”…. Thanks to Aaron Koblin (the guy who wrote the code), Radiohead, Warner-Chappell and DeWitt Clinton and his team at Google for taking the lead on this.”

Also, In Rainbows is streaming for free at Last.Fm.

DISCLAIMER: I work for Warner/Chappell Music, Radiohead’s publisher

Flip over a new page in Radiohead’s innovative In Rainbows adventure. Welcome the Radiohead Remix Web site, where anyone and everyone is invited to mashup, remix, and geek out “Nude,” the second single from the album.

It’s not exactly a Creative Commons take me and rape me scenario, like the fully remixable tracks on Nine Inch Nails’ Ghost but it is cool…. even if it involves an elaborate partnership with Apple:

If you purchase all five ‘stems’ from iTunes during the first week they’re available, you’ll be sent an access code to a GarageBand file ready to open in GarageBand or Logic. However, you don’t need GarageBand to do a remix, all the stems are in iTunes Plus format and compatible with several music software platforms.

Fans vote for their favorite remixes but I can’t seem to listen successfully in Firefox. Interesting promotion Radiohead… or is it… Apple?

UPDATE: Lx7 gives further analysis of the restrictive Terms underlying this “contest.” Ouch.

h/t LAT Soundboard

I originally felt that I couldn’t handle being in one corner of Golden Gate Park even if Jack Johnson was playing on another, but now that more of the artist lineup has been announced for this August’s Outside Lands Festival, the temptation is killing me. Early-bird tix are available now via Radiohead HQ.

When they said that Lollapalooza-type festivals would be criss-crossing the country eating each other up, they weren’t kidding. But what could be better than an August weekend in Golden Gate Park with the music accoutrements of (for starters):

Radiohead
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Beck
Wilco
Manu Chao
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Primus
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Café Tacvba
Broken Social Scene
Regina Spektor
Devendra Banhart
Cold War Kids
Galacticâ€s Crescent City
Soul Krewe
Lyrics Born
Andrew Bird
Steel Pulse
Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings
M. Ward
Drive-By Truckers
Jack Johnson
Widespread Panic
The Cool Kids
Steve Winwood
ALO
Matt Nathanson
Two Gallants
Dredg
Little Brother
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
The Coup
Bon Iver
Ivan Nevilleâ€s Dumpstaphunk
The Felice Brothers
Back Door Slam

Radiohead — In Rainbows.