Last night, during Red Hot Chili Peppers’ performance at the Egyptian pyramids in Giza, guitarist Josh Klinghoffer sat behind a piano to offer a fitting cover: Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song,” from 2001’s Amnesiac. Watch that go down below around the 1:59:50 mark.

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Radiohead have more ties than one would initially think. Thom Yorke and Flea have performed together in Atoms for Peace and longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich worked on the funk-rock group’s 2016 album The Getaway, their most recent studio album. RHCP recently performed alongside Post Malone at the 2019 Grammys.

Read our Sunday Review of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

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