That may have been one take, but I bet it wasn't the first one... :)

OK Go not only rock, they are some very friendly people. Saw 'em at the Newport, opening for They Might Be Giants--they hung out after the show, selling their CDs (at the time, only the first two) and chatting with whoever felt like chatting back. For my money, they're also one of the best opening acts I've seen ahead of TMBG. The only other opener I genuinely liked was 'Petit Ubu'--the members of Pere Ubu not going on-stage with TMBG (this was before the Band of Dans).

If OK Go are starting to get wider notice, that's a Very Good Thing.

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Although I've learned to like them since (the videos they did for Cartoon Network rocked), I was really disappointed with Soul Coughing when they opened for They. Also disappointing: Cub. And yeah, I got my copies of the OK Go discs signed, too. :)

I'm trying to remember if that was the 'Four Horsemen' show or not... we had a monstrous storm come into the area the night of a TMBG show late in '01. Flans said (after the first song) that They'd been watching it on the Weather Channel and that they'd taken the regular meteorological symbols off the map and replaced them with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse... about three songs later, there was a total power outage. The Johns gave us an acoustic 'Istanbul' and 'New York City' (barely a month after 9/11, that was very moving, especially when Flans intro'd it with a remark that when you thought about what had just happened in his home town, a power outage was a pretty damn minor thing...), then adjourned the show until midnight, by which time either power would be restored or a generator truck would be on site. During the down time, Flans was out front signing autographs and chatting with fans. If not the best show ever, it was certainly one of the weirdest... :)

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