Video Games Live

Originally Posted by Jessykins <3

Couple of my guildmates are going to Blizzcon. They still won't get the show I got here, so fuck 'em.

Are you coming back to Vegas next year or ever? It was a pretty awesome concert.

Yo Jessykins!,

Yes! We're already making plans to return to Las Vegas for 2009.

You can sign up to our mailing list to get all the ticket and pre-sale info as soon as it happens.

thanks,


Tommy

Tommy,
Is VGL expanding its repertoire to other venues? I recently went to a "Pops in the Park" concert by the California Symphony where they play movie, tv, and patriotic themes. One of their selections this year they called "Video Games Live" and played Kingdom Hearts, Civ 4 medley sans lyrics, and "theme from Hunter" (which was really the Advent Rising piece). Was this official or were they jumping on the bandwagon? Either way the music was awesome.
It was a pleasant surprise and a lot of non-gamers people around me really enjoyed it. Hopefully more symphonies pick up on the trend and start including VG music in their personal concerts!

Also, is VGL coming to the SF Bay Area again soon? GDC is not too far off

Finally, I must add the obligatory " 'Destinationz Unknown' needs to be the encore in the concert" comment since I mention every time we've talked since 2001.

Keep up the great work!

Hey Tommy,

let's hang out after the concert, it'll be the first time for me to experience your concert where there are so many positive remarks about your dedication and achievements!

Anyway, looking forward to Saturday and your show!

Hiro

Originally Posted by ashaman

Tommy,
Is VGL expanding its repertoire to other venues? I recently went to a "Pops in the Park" concert by the California Symphony where they play movie, tv, and patriotic themes. One of their selections this year they called "Video Games Live" and played Kingdom Hearts, Civ 4 medley sans lyrics, and "theme from Hunter" (which was really the Advent Rising piece). Was this official or were they jumping on the bandwagon? Either way the music was awesome.
It was a pleasant surprise and a lot of non-gamers people around me really enjoyed it. Hopefully more symphonies pick up on the trend and start including VG music in their personal concerts!

Also, is VGL coming to the SF Bay Area again soon? GDC is not too far off

Finally, I must add the obligatory " 'Destinationz Unknown' needs to be the encore in the concert" comment since I mention every time we've talked since 2001.

Keep up the great work!

Yo!,

Thanks for the message! What we did is... we gave a lot of our arrangements to Alfred Publishing (www.alfred.com). Alfred Publishing is the biggest provider of sheet music to schools and universities. They distribute to over 75,000 schools in the U.S. alone! With the publishers permission we gave them to Alfred FREE with the one stipulation that our name be attached as the Video Games Live arrangement. The game publishers & game composers receive the money... we just wanted to help spread video game music to the masses (and of course our name as well). Since doing this, they have sold literally thousands of arrangements to schools. They did drum corps, school symphony and marching band arrangements.

You can view the original press release here: Video Games Live | www.videogameslive.com

If you do a search on YouTube you'll find TONS of videos of schools and non-profit organizations playing Video Games Live arrangements. So although it's not our show... we're still helping to spread VG music to the masses and smaller towns around the world.

VGL will be coming back to San Fran in 2009. We're working on the exact dates and locations now.

Destinationz Unknown would be an AWESOME song to play in VGL! Not sure if many people would know it... but it would be really fun to play with the orchestra, choir and guitar!

Thanks!


Tommy

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Originally Posted by -=SeRaPH=-

Hey Tommy,

let's hang out after the concert, it'll be the first time for me to experience your concert where there are so many positive remarks about your dedication and achievements!

Anyway, looking forward to Saturday and your show!

Hiro

Hi Hiro,

How long will you be in town for? I've been on the road touring for a month (just flew into Alabama from doing a few weeks in Brazil).. Our Alabama Symphony show is tonight then we fly directly to Anaheim for set-up and rehearsals). I live close to Anaheim so after the show I'll probably go straight home and sleep in my own bed for a change! Hahahhahaa... but would love to meet up with you at some point. Maybe sometime Saturday during the day? You could get a hold of me through Russell at Blizzard. We have a rehearsal before the venue opens (on Saturday) and then I'll pretty much be free until 5:30PM.

Please note... the performance that we'll be doing at BlizzCon is different than our typical VGL show. So although you may get a slight sense of the lights, video, music, etc. it isn't the same as VGL where we have a lot more things going on (including game diversity) and more time to inject fun, energy, interactivity and humor into the performance (which normally plays a big part of the VGL experience). That being said, we have a lot of very cool special segments, special guest musicians, etc. planned. We've created a really cool show with but it will be different than the normal VGL experience (if there is such a thing).



See ya soon!


Tommy

Tommy Tallarico is really short in person.

Alright, I'm terrible at writing reviews, but I just got back from this and I'd at least like to say some stuff. Plus I told Tommy I would. I don't even know where to start. The whole thing was pretty damn awesome. And being in the second row was great, other than that light on the right side. We tried to get him to pick a friend of mine to do the Space Invaders thing, but Tommy was too easily swayed by cleavage. And of course that guy who yelled to kill all the people who think video games promote violence was epic lulz.

Let's see... The classics medley in the beginning was pretty cool. Certainly wasn't expecting anything like Dragon's Lair. The pianist was absolutely amazing. It's mind-boggling that anyone can move that fast and still hit the right keys. Considering how much Crash talks about it whenever it comes up, it was pretty cool when they started playing Baba Yetu. The Halo and Castlevania parts were pretty epic. As far as the ending, while I don't have anything against One Winged Angel, especially the guitar version, I would have liked to see something like Dancing Mad.

I ended up buying two copies of the Video Games Live Volume One cd, so hopefully my friend will pay me back for that soon. And a Video Games Live hat. Mostly because I'm still pissed that they were out of Rock Band hats way back when they had that thing at Best Buy. It took everything I had to keep myself from spending even more money on the Earthworm Jim cd (sorry Infernal). Ended up getting them to sign the back cover of the cd. I told Tommy that they should put in some Megaman and Earthbound music. I meant to also say something about Ace Combat. My friend said they should do Devil May Cry, and was promptly ignored for more discussion of Megaman (he says they're working on 2 and 3).

All in all it was a lot of fun and it was completely worth it to see. I'm looking forward to seeing it next year. Also that pong shirt (that was me that said something) and the Spiderman guitar were pretty ballin. Oh, and I took a picture with Tommy and my friend, so I'll try to post it when he sends it to me.

Hi Tommy,

Sure, I'll be mooching around the panels anyway, tell me a time after you rehearsal, we'll grab coffee or something on Saturday. I'm sure VGL X Blizzard can conjure up some very fantastic magic, will be looking forward to it!

Anyone else go to the Chicago performance? I just got back... pretty good overall!