Change to Reinvent

I love when things are reinvented. When people reinvent themselves.

Many, I find this happening in films, sports, or bands. Look at Andy Roddick, when from a serve and forehand only young kid, to an all court player, who comes to the net as much as he stays back. Or, if you don't know much tennis, how about the Foo Fighters. David Grohl started the band shortly after Nirvana disbanded and began as a semi-grunge band, quickly turning into a rock band, then for an album a heavy rock band, then an acoustic mellow band, then right back to solid rock. Awesome.

It's interesting to watch bands evolve - everyone does it at some point, The Beatles, Bowie, hell, even Brittany Spears.

Anyway, to get back to where I was going with this, I talked about going to a concert this past weekend and one particular part of it stuck out for me (I saw OK Go). They have this song "Return" which is a magnificent piece of lyrical writing, full of moving verses and deep meaning, but it also has eerily beautiful and hypnotizing harmonies.

All in all it's a great song. Bottom line. Top of the top, best of the best.

Here it is in its glory:



Great right? Well - it gets better. In the middle of the concert, the band walked off stage, taking off their instruments as they went. Of course I was like..."umm this can't be close to over, what gives?" Very quickly, they ran - well, I guess walked back on stage carrying a huge table with shiny metal objects on it. All of the members of the band then proceeded to put on white gloves and grab hold of the objects in front of them on the table.

If you guessed it, you are right, they picked up church handbells. 


I was not prepared for what ensued. One of possibly, the most beautiful renditions of a song I have ever witnessed or heard.

While it is not the actual video from the concert, this is them performing it.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.  Make sure you turn up your volume, it's a little quiet.



Staggering. In a good way.

This band already does so much - great performances, insanely creative music videos, now a rock song played live, on handbells - which may even sound better.

Congratulations OK Go, you've successfully reinvented yourselves...again.