OK GO at Case Springfest 2007
I saw one of my favorite bands (OK GO) yesterday at springfest!
They were really great. The concert took place in the middle of the day in one of the campus gymnasiums, and a surprising number of people showed up.
OK Go at Case Springfest | Get Over It
What surprised me the most was the "rowdy" nature of the crowd. First of all, you have to realize that when I put something in quotes, I mean it. "Rowdy" for Case means that people were clapping and jumping and singing along; all things I have never really seen at any campus concerts. That being said, the establishment (Case) did everything in its power to quash whatever fun was being had. Some people actually had the nerve to hoist each other up and crowd surf on the thin (for crowd surfing, not for Case) mass of hands and shoulders. These brave souls were immediately apprehended by security guards and other such agents of lameness.
OK GO did domething I've never seen before at a concert of any type, they took the show literally into the crowd. In the middle of the show they jumped off stage and made their way over to a small platform that had been waiting for them in the midst of the pocket-protected throng to perform several songs. I was lucky enough to be this close to them:
OK GO at Case Springfest | Crowded
Damian Kulash, the band's lead singer was in high spirits despite the lack of crowd energy. I think he actually appreciated that the bunch of nerds at his show were at least swaying and singing. He even went so far as to discuss the band's nerdiness, including how keyboardist Andy Ross was a "card carrying nerd", and encouraged all of us to raise our gadgets like the lighters of old in rock concerts of yore. Someone raised their laptop.
Typical.
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