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This is our Road Trip Thread.
Obvs we will have more to post (MAN I am knackered...) BUT! Please witness DAMIAN TALKING SMACK ABOUT ME ONSTAGE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1tDS4Mmc68
And you can hear me yell "IT SUCKS!" in the crowd.
I am win. Not to brag or anything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1tDS4Mmc68
And you can hear me yell "IT SUCKS!" in the crowd.
I am win. Not to brag or anything.
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That is all.
These aren't captioned because I have to go make matzah ball soup (to go with pork sandwiches, that we're eating on Purim, hahahahaha), but here are my pics from Towson:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2175...912&l=c168f
Did they really have a rainbow-colored "OK Go" on the drum set or is that just a trick of the lights? Good pictures, though. The first of a new OK Go era. EPIC.
Did they really have a rainbow-colored "OK Go" on the drum set or is that just a trick of the lights? Good pictures, though. The first of a new OK Go era. EPIC.
Trick of the lights. It's silvery sparkly.
YOu guys, I can't believe I missed the NoHo show last night. It was all because of a class....
ahahahahaha <3
Lisa Frank-ified Ok Go would be pretty terrifying.
Lisa Frank-ified anything is pretty terrifying.
Since Katy and Rachel are far too busy to post, which is totally understandable, here's a small update from last night. The rest of my recap will be in the Pearl Street show thread, including plenty of fangirling and salivating over the new stuff.
Anyways, Katy and Rach are both doing wonderful, and they didn't look/seem too tired or worn out. They're having fun and making friends with the opening bands, and overall it seems like the boys appreciate their dedication
To elaborate on the video Katy posted, talking smack about her is apparently part of Dami's routine now xD
hope they don't mind if I tell this story.
So Katy was in handbell choir here at Smith, and after one of the earlier shows she went up to Damian and told him something along the lines of "the handbells were really cool, but your form sucks"
And so now when he's introducing it, he starts off with something about churches and transitions to "so I guess handbells are only played by people in churches, and by rich girls from the Upper East Side who come up to me after the Brooklyn show to tell me that my form sucks. I'm sorry, but if any girls like that are here, maybe they should just go to the bathroom during this song. Just sayin'."
Katy wasn't sure where he got the Upper East Side/Brooklyn-show bits of that speech, but it's still pretty hilarious.
As was the fact that the club is basically down the street from Smith, which happens to have its own handbell choir. But anyways.
I heard plenty of other good stories from the road trip, which I'm sure will fill up this thread whenever Katy and Rachel have time
But I'm glad they're having fun and doing well.
BWAHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAH
Wow. I'm glad I don't look it, but, MAN, I am KNACKERED. Touring is grueling - I can't imagine being in one of the bands and doing this. (And yet, all I've been able to do since NYC is think, "I WANT TO DO THIS FOREVER AND EVER HOW CAN I GET A JOB LIKE THIS?" facepalm.)
So, here's the thing - in NYC, he was definitely talking about me. But I think there must have been somebody else who said the same thing post-NYC show because I'm not sure how I evolved into an airheaded upper-east side teenager. But still.
EDIT: This just happened on the phone:
"Last night, your wife was accosted by a six-foot-tall drummer with a jaunty cap. .... No, I said 'drummer,' not 'German.'"
I'm going to post briefly about how much I love Oppenheimer. They are so much fun. Longwave's music took a few nights to grow on me, whereas Oppenheimer was appealing right off the bat. I love their sound guy, Chris. He's such a sweetheart. Also, Shaun says the same thing on stage every night, so I've started to be able to imitate what he says in the correct accent (Irish, they're from Belfast). Rocky and Chris were quite impressed with the accent, Shaun says I need to work on the vowels. I can't get that "O is I" thing though. It almost sounds like he's saying "Vials" instead of "Vowels". (Alice - nay nay nay).
So in short, go see Oppenheimer next time they're in town.
If you're implying that I sound like Amy Winehouse again.... grrrr.....
Haha, no love, just referencing an in-joke you'd get, that's all.
So, umm, the road trip is officially over, and we head home today. Katy is fast asleep right now (the poor thing is completely knackered), but we're gonna have to be up soon anyway for check-out at noon, and then I've been promised some sort of Lobster somewhere. I'll be posting things in dribs and drabs over the next few days, but I'll have a video up soon of the prank OK Go played on Longwave last night. Katy and I knew about it ahead of time because we grabbed dinner at Subway pre-show when Dan walked in, so I was able to see when the ball started rolling and could get the whole thing on video.
7 shows in 8 days. Not bad as a whole. 25 shows in 6 years. Pretty good if I do say so myself.
yeah, i'd say so too... you've seen them more times in the last 7 days than i have in the last 7 years...
Errr, well, maybe it's not something to be so proud of. I'm supposed to be a grownup after all.
Anyway, my video is done posting to Facebook. Here's a link: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=...5412&ref=nf
If that doesn't work, it'll be up on Youtube, along with Longwave's last song from last night on which Dan and Damian guested on Drums.
You would be, too.
Damian singing an earnest love song (Earnest Goes to Camp? What?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v2FX2_dSd0
The guys play a trick on Longwave and Katy and I laugh about it like loonies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2rctIbeIos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2rctIbeIos
Oh, did you send that to Steve? You should do that...eventually...when you get around to it...
0:57 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArZxLj6DLk
Philly show (3/6/09 at the TLA):
-- I left WAY too late (partially not my fault) and hit totally ridic traffic going through Philly and Rachel was sort of freaking out about not being front row and then we got to the TLA over an hour before doors opened and...no line. So it worked out.
-- Got a cheesesteak (with not a lot of cheese, thus making it almost an oxymoron) across the street and then got a beer with Rachel’s friend, Joe, who is very nice, while we waited because I am less about the waiting in line for ages today than I was three years ago.
-- Yeah, we were front row, stage Andy, are you surprised?
-- First opener, Oppenheimer, was very good. I’ve seen them open for TMBG before and always intended to listen more and post about them, but obvs didn’t. They are from Belfast and ergo have cute accents. They are also adorable onstage and play short pop songs with lots of robot voice, breaking drum sticks, synths, melodica, and an airhorn solo. (Ya srsly!) I think the crowd (mainly comprised of pubescent girls - I always forget how many teenage girls love OK Go) appreciated them a lot.
-- I’ve met a few members of Longwave before, but had never really heard the band. (Although I have seen Falcon and Travis described them as “Longwave with a different singer.) They’re a lot more rock (and slightly shoegaze) than Oppenheimer, so I don’t think the crowd was sold on them. They were still solid onstage, though. Also, frontman Steve was wicked adorable (guys, I really just said "wicked." wow.), and I sort of wanted to hug him a lot for that.
-- Also, guitarist Shannon was patently missing, so after the second or third song, some dude yelled out, "WHERE’S SHANNON?!" to which Steve was all, "Aww! He’s minutes away from being a daddy!" That explains it.
-- So, there was a whole bunch of stuff onstage that I assumed belonged to Oppenheimer, but quickly realized didn’t. Stuff like tubular bells, a large bass drum, handbells, and a DOUBLE-NECKED GUITAR. Err yeah. I said to Rachel, "If this isn’t awesome, I’m gonna’ laugh." She said, "When did they become Cheap Trick?"
-- But seriously, EVERYTHING sounds amazing. All the new stuff is superb. Somebody’s been listening to Prince a lot. They played seven new songs (so it was a good mix between old and new, although I found myself, contrary to usual, enjoying the new stuff I didn’t know FAR more than the old stuff I do know.) Bringing in a whole new set of odd instruments can seem gimmicky and then just pretentious if not done right, but they played them in the right amounts, for the right songs at the right times. That takes planning and thinking. I can’t tell you the last time I was THIS excited about a new record.
-- More than that, it’s all a whole lot more...emotional, I guess. Damian, God bless him, seems to have turned down the “I’m-such-a-sexy-rockstar-and-you-want-me” thing a bit in favour of a more humanised version of himself, something which, judging by the solo love song he played (and pleaded with his bandmates to keep on the record), seem sot have a lot do with being married. Imho. And that’s refreshing and interesting to see.
-- And you know what else is nice? You can really, REALLY hear Tim and Andy now. Not that you couldn't before, but I feel like their voices and instruments have become so much clearer. It's gone from being very Damian-centric to mildly Damian-centric. aross plays all kinds of solos and leading guitar parts and shit like that, which is AMAZING because aross is AMAZING. I admire him completely.
-- OH OH OH AND THEY PLAYED "A MILLION WAYS" ON ELECTRIC! None of this acoustic business! I nearly screamed. THAT is the way that song is SUPPOSED to be played. Well done, sirs.
-- Regardless, it was still opening night of tour, after they’ve been in a barn in upstate NY for a few months. Damian kept fucking up the lyrics (which Rachel helped him out with, loudly, and he laughed). Also, one Rusty Ross broke the gavel for playing the tubular bells, which was hilarious ‘cause he just stopped and looked at the handle like, "...wtf." And he almost missed a cue and we laughed at him, and then he laughed at us. It was also sort of difficult to determine where in the set we were – is this the middle, the end, the fake end, the encore? What’s going on? But I think that’s ‘cause they were still figuring things out.
-- You all know they're playing shit on handbells, and while I totally appreciate ANYTHING played on the handbells, man. Poorest technique ever. My video of it (almost the whole song, just missing the first verse) is here. (Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore, can you let us embed stuff now?)
-- After the show, we managed the thwart random security people and hang around waiting to talk to Dan, with whom Rachel (not I) had a lovely conversation, and I told him off for poor technique. Which he laughed about. Oh, Damian thanked Rachel for helping out with the lyrics, too.
-- aross had his Ser Biz tee on. <3
Random quotes from the show:
"Note to Mom: nothing untoward happened here, I just spilled beer all down her chest."
"My brother-in-law is here tonight...[pause]...that was a lot of screams. You can’t all be my brother-in-law. Aren’t you a girl?"
"So we’ve been making a new record – [crowd screams] – YEAH RECORDS!"
All Damian, of course.
Baltimore show (3/7/09 at the Recher Theatre, Towson, MD):
-- Left later than anticipated, mainly because Rachel’s dryer doesn’t like to dry things.
-- Craved Pringles all damn day long. True story.
-- Was so damn tired from being sick and not sleeping well that I actually got coffee pre-show, which only made me jittery. I don’t know why I even try.
-- Recher Theatre was small. However, it kind of sucked as a venue. Like, "the lighting was sort of crap" and "they won’t let you have a glass of water at the bar so you have to buy a bottle" sort of sucked. Thumbs down.
-- The crowd was even younger this time around. There were kids who, I’m not lying, were turning 11 in the crowd. There were two 12- or 13-year-old girls next to me with their mom. Gah.
-- Made a new friend, Samantha, who was not 12 or 13, who is originally from Brooklyn but goes to school in the Towson area. She was all sorts of cool.
-- Oppenheimer was lovely as usual. Thoroughly enjoyed Longwave’s set more the second time through.
-- Rachel and I wanted to know if Shannon’s wife had the baby yet, so after the second song, we yelled out
"WHERE’S SHANNON?!" Steve was all, "This is like clockwork. This is the second OK Go show where after the second song somebody’s asked about Shannon." And then he gave the "minutes from being a daddy" thing again. Not the answer we were looking for! You said that last night!
-- Before OK Go came on, some totally trashed girl from Towson U. and her equally drunk boyfriend shoved their way up front and then tried to get past me to get front and center and I was having none of it. After drunkenly pleading with people trying convince them that she had been there since six, they began making out and booty dancing. The 13-year-old girl next to me kept texting her friend which was HILARIOUS ‘cause she was like, “This is so gross! They’re like practicing having sex!” Which are only things a 13-year-old would say.
-- THEN she left and came back and got all up in those girls’ mom’s face ‘cause she was so trashed and incredibly rude and mom told her off, which, go, mom.
-- OK Go was spot-on again, minus some of the silly mistakes from the night before.
-- In fact, let’s talk about how my ovaries sort of exploded both nights when they played “I Want U So Bad,” where there’s a bridge wherein, if you pay enough attention, it pretty much sounds like the Kulash is seconds away from cumming onstage. (Sorry that that's vulgar, but there's really NO other way of putting it.) I mean, I think the guy’s hot and all, but I’m not interested in trying to sleep with him or anything. But weird things start happening to me when they play that song, and it started to make sense as to why that was happening.
-- So, partway through the show, just after a song had ended, this announcement came on in the venue, saying something to the effect of, "Attention, will Emily so-and-so and Victoria so-and-so please report to the box office." All of the guys in the band stopped and looked around like, "wtf?" Damian was all, "...Did they just make that announcement in the middle of our set? If you didn't get that, Emily, your dad's here."
-- The drunk girl would NOT SHUT UP at ALL during the show. Pretty much everyone around me yelled, “SHUT UP!” at her at some point during the show.
-- After the show, we hung out FOREVER. I finally went up to Steve and was like, "Hey, remember me?" and he was like, "YEAH!" Which was kind of awesome. At least said "hi" to Andy. We had a nice long talk with Tim about, amongst other things, how he watches The Hills and The City and was at an after party with Franz Ferdinand and The Vines one time.
-- Talked to Damian for ages, too, including about things like how he stands with his legs inhumanly far apart (a trait inherited from his father, apparently – I would have gotten a picture, but he was against that) and how they got all of their other influences out of the way with the first two records and now all that’s left is Prince.
-- Got back to Rachel’s parents’ place, dead knackered, and still didn’t sleep well at all. Meeehh.
Random quotes:
"What did Philadelphia ever do to you? Do they come down and raid you every now and then?" – Damian re: drunk girl yelling "FUCK PHILADELPHIA"
"When’s beer week in Towson?...I thought you were going to say ‘every day,’ which would be the correct answer." - Damian
"Emily, your dad's here." - Damian
"Man, leggings are so sexy...I wish guys had some sort of equivalent..." - Steve
"....skinny jeans? You're wearing them." - Me
"These are women's [sized], too." - Steve (who is approximately the size of my pinky finger)
Philly pictures here, Baltimore pics here.
No, because someone kept the paper with his email addy on it.
ADAM KEEPS SAYING THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!
Oh.
BAHAHAHAHAHA ADAM AND I ARE SHARING BRAIN WAVES!