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frankybling t1_j5u8ef2 wrote

I think Greenwood’s attitude was that he wasn’t up to his standards of knowing how to play… which from my listening over the years is damned near perfection seeking. His version of not knowing how to play is way different than 98% (random made up number) of the rest of us “not knowing how to play”.

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wallabee_kingpin_ t1_j5xz6z2 wrote

Greenwood's reason is very clearly spelled out at the top of the article, and it's not what you've speculated here.

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>“Thom [Yorke]’s band had a keyboard player — [whom] I think they didn’t get on with because he played his keyboard so loud,” he told NPR’s Terry Gross. “And so when I got the chance to play with them, the first thing I did was make sure my keyboard was turned off … I must have done months of rehearsals with them with this keyboard, and they didn’t know that I’d already turned it off.”

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