Burnt out and uninterested in however they had worked before, Radiohead approached album number eight by tearing up the script…and then chucking into the fire. One of the most successful Rock bands of their generation, the Oxford quintet spent month after month finding inspiration via a set of turntables and a homebrewed sampler. The result was 2011’s “The King of Limbs”- a multilayered electronic pastiche of ideas and sounds that gave Radiohead that sense of reinvention they’d been searching for. The question then was, how to take it on the road.

"We didn’t have a clue about how we were going to play a lot of it,” singer Thom Yorke told NPR after the album’s release, “and then learning to play it allows you back into it in another way. It's like a backward process.”

The how could be seen once Radiohead descended into Maida Vale studios to film an episode of “From The Basement,” a live performance series captained by their producer Nigel Godrich. While getting ready to kick off a song called “Lotus Flower,” you can see Yorke still fiddling with synth sounds as if the band were in rehearsals. But once things are counted off, guitarist Johnny Greenwood begins playing the track’s ominous bass line on a vintage Minimoog from the early 70’s.

It's a key element of the song. And when Thom Yorke and the rest of the band marched out onto the stage of the Glastonbury festival later that summer to perform a surprise gig, “Lotus Flower” was what they chose to begin their set. Their Model D was right there with them.