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http://www.luminomagazine.com/mw/content/view/1515/4
BTW, does Chicago have a shortage of proofreaders?
...the floor literally shuck with footsteps...
...lead singer Dami en Kulash...
http://www.luminomagazine.com/mw/content/view/1515/4
Too bad they didn't realize the proposal was fake. lol
Yet, the second one...
"Throughout my five-year history as a music journalist, I have seen some of the world’s largest acts and most historic bands still performing, yet I have only uttered these words a handful of times – this is one of my top ten favorite concerts. Pleasantly to my surprise, out goes one band and in comes the new as OK Go has officially cracked my top 10 with one of the best shows I have witnessed in the last five years."
This one has more to do with the idea of an Ok Go concert I have in my mind!
...the band had a GREAT stage presence, style, and the acoustic set in the middle of the crowd really had me in awe. To me, that's the kind of "gimmick" (which isn't a "gimmick" at all) done by more established bands n small venues, and I was pleasantly surprised to see such mature creativity and artistry in a band so new to the national scene. Even not knowing the music (now I do, though, as I bought the CD/DVD at the sales table, to the embitterment of my friend who had paid 5 dollars more for it in a big box store), I could see all that this band has going for them.
I got the distinct feeling that this is a band interested, first and foremost, in providing MUSIC and hoping to spread it to the masses, with fame being just a consequence of that. The acoustic set, I think, is proof that their music is their heart. Not many bands have the guts to rework their own songs with a first national album. The so-called gimmicks (the inflatables, doing the dance at the end, etc.) are just what they bring to their live show. And, it's exciting. And, it's ballsy.
I only hope that they come up with something "new" to wow us. The Million Ways dance and homemade backyard video are great, the treadmill video is great, but the (intentionally) unpolished and geeky dancing in unison cannot survive a third incarnation and still remain fresh.
Although I hate to degrade the ideas and antics of people 15 years my junior (I was young and dumb at one point
That said, I *did* notice quite a few high-schoolers and college-age people in the crowd, but, because I *am* older, my eyes sought out those who looked (or projected) an age closer to mine. I saw quite a few!
I've eyed the Milwaukee concert a few times today, and I'm wondering if I can wing it time-wise and/or talk my friend into a trek north. Hmmmm....
ETA: My friend was the 5'11' Amazon who held the spotlight closest to the stage.
I'm 33, btw.
Welcome to the board, and to OK Go fandom in general
as a reader only of these posts...i finally feel compelled to add my own thoughts of the shows...i went to both as well...did feel friday was the more energetic of the two, but both were great on their own merits.
i found the teenagers in the front of the stage actually helped make the show more fun (i appreciated the "you've got to start somewhere" comment to the younger fans) as i've only liked them for a couple of years now...my friend knew about them sooner, but what can i say, i work nights...but i got a few off to see some of these shows....check out google video(couldn't go to youtube, the file was too big)...put "okgo dance in chicago" in the search to see a bit of what i could film...wasn't much unfortunately...you kiddies were jumping a bit too much to make anything usable...
also agree with the gal who got to see them without knowing much (or any) of their material....what impressed me when i saw them for the first time last year was their incredible energy...i was lucky enough to see them wednesday in philly with cheap trick....a friend came along who never heard of them and was completely won over...
by the way....i'm older than all of you
and going to the d.c. show....wish me luck at getting some better shots....if i do you'll be the first to know..
Thanks about the "starting somewhere" comment. Were you next to the girls I said it to, second row, kinda between Damian & Andy?
Did you stay after to meet them (and/or have you met them before)?
So lucky to be at that Cheap Trick show and now the D.C. show, another "hometown" show of sorts. So you'll have seen them four times in a little over a week then. Really lucky!!
Welcome aboard the board
j
(hey, I didn't realize I'm already a hanger-on.)
Now, as I'm not one to point out the negative without also pointing out the positive, two good things came out of this article:
1) It gave us something interesting to talk about.
2) It made me realize how lucky I am to have such intelligent friends, because all though not of my friends got into Ivy League colleges, or even graduated from high school, all of them have IQs (and vocabularies) which greatly surpass those demonstrated in this review.