OK Go "A Good Idea at the Time" (16.7 MB) from Oh No High Noon Saloon Madison, WI March 13, 2007 PODCAST EXCLUSIVE!

The thing about these corporate-sponsored free shows is that winning an "invitation" isn't enough to get in. To ensure that they get a packed house, they notify way more "winners" than they can fit in the venue, and the first 250 or so get in. Knowing this, we arrived and got in line about 40 minutes before the doors officially opened. My hope was to get a prime spot up at the front of the balcony, because I knew there'd be a lot of waiting around before the main event started and also because the sound on my Apples in Stereo clips was a little distorted from being so close to the stage. Well, come to find out just after we got in line that the balcony was reserved for the VIPs brought in by the sponsors. We wound up instead standing in just about the same spot as we stood for Apples, which was a decent enough spot, but again a little distort-y. Still, it's nothing that can't be overlooked in this clip from early in the set, which set the tone for the bombast and fun to come.