I just got back from it. Â Â I have to say, great concert. Â Only little complaints I’d have are that the sound system was a little crappy, and they severely under-utilized the ginormous monitors above the orchestra.
A few comments though
1) Sonic the Hedgehog music was not meant to be performed by a symphony orchestra, and doesn’t sound right that way
2) You haven’t heard One Winged Angel until you’ve heard it performed live by a full orchestra (and lemme again send out a big FUCK YOU to Video Games Live for having the very same song performed by some schmuck on a piano and two women when there was a full goddamned symphony orchestra not 10 feet behind them)
3) The Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross medley was one of the greatest things I have ever heard.
Also, I have to ask what the hell the people running it were thinking when they sold T-shirts to a video game music concert, sure to be extremely popular amongst big fat geeks, and didn’t bother getting ANY bigger than Large. Â You’d think the people who organized Dear Friends and More Friends would know better than that, but apparently not.
the shirt thing is pretty fucking laffo. I can make you a custom gay faggot fat videogame orchestra shirt though if you want man, you know me.
Did they play Mystic Cave Zone or whatever that one is from Sonic 2?
Damn it! I don’t read your journal for a week and miss a free ticket to video game symphony! Bah! Life sucks!