Video Games Live

Just picked up two tickets for the montreal show. I can't wait. All I can say is, have a good set ready, and its about time

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Originally Posted by Tommy Tallarico

Cool! Cant wait for you to see the show! I'll see ya in Feb!

Make sure to come up and say hi at the meet & greet and tell me you're from Gamingforce.


Tommy

There's a meet and greet? Is it an extra or can anyone with tickets come up and say hi. Just another gamingforce guy wanting to offer thanks for the show

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Originally Posted by Tommy Tallarico

All of our meet & greets are free and open to any ticket holder after the show.

See ya there!


Tommy

Super! Now I have to wonder how long it'll take to get down from the balcony >.<

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Alright. The man himself asked for it, and so I shall report. Here comes my review of Video Games Live, when they were here for two days this month. (7th, and 8th)


It started with a nice medley of all your classic games. From Pong, to frogger, joust, galaga, centipede and even dig-dug. All played in tune to the big projection screen showing footage from each game. Fast Forward.. Solid Snake surprises us by introducing Tommy. Tommy comes out, talks a little about VGL, the 'world''s thoughts on game music in general and how it's now starting to be noticed and considered as real music; not just 'bleeps and bloops from a game'. Onwards, Metal Gear Solid theme, your good 'ol Mario, Zelda, and even sonic had their music played. Civilization, WoW, Starcraft 2, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy (was there any doubt?) Beyond Good and Evil (as a tribute to our local Ubi-Soft devs) Graet preformance, great selection (except for no castlevania )

In between a couple of songs, contests were held. The first being one guy was picked to play Galaga and beat the first stage in two minutes. Sounds easy ne? Not so, when as you were on stage, you had to run left and right to control the ship. You were being tracked. Hilarity. He couldn't get it. What was funnier was the player was french and had to use a translator to talk to Tommy.

Contest two, was a game of frogger between two randomly selected people. Highest score wins in 2 mins. (Frederic and Frederic. What were the chances of that :P) Frederic won, got a nice prize. The looser got frogger.

Intermission. (which in itself was great. I finally found a use for pictochat. So many DS's)

Act 2. More music. Tommy brought out Michael Salvatori (Halo music composer) and he spoke about how lots of people thought that the chanting you hear in the main theme were monks.. Wrong. It was M.Salvatori himself, along with a few other street performers. Halo music was played. (Didn't know Tommy played Guitar. That was rad!) Fast Forward some more.

Special Guest was introduced. The Video Game Pianist He played a really kick-ass Medley from Final Fantasy. Then graced us with some blindfolded mario.

2 hours later.. Best part.
Tommy: "So, usually when it comes time for the last song, in a normal concert, people would pull out their lighters and wave them around. But we're all gamers here. Lets see those DS's and PSP's! If they boot up quick enough!"

All those backlights sure lit up the theater. It was pretty neat. End song was of course One Winged Angel. More guitar playing by Tommy. And with that, the show ended.

Afterwards, the meet and greet. Bought a T-shirt. Got it signed by M.Salvatori, Leung, and Tommy. Heh, told him I was from here. He remembered me. We spoke for a bit, snapped a picture (Which is crazy lol. my expression is priceless) and then I left.

What a crazy fun night that was. It surpassed my expectations a hundred fold, and I do urge anyone that gets the chance to go, to go. Don't wait for the last moment to get tickets. Get them ASAP. It'll surely be a night you'll remember for a long time. (And say you're from GFF too :P)



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additionally, getting Tommy to sign my copy of his first greatest hits album (from 1994) and say "Where did you get this? Look at that, Martin (while he pointed at his 'Beverly Hills 90210' look inside the booklet), was pretty funny!

That was you? >.> If so, then I was the one right beside you. Next in line.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Yeah. He opened the cd case. Pulled out like 3 books. one advent rising, one other one. and poked martin to look at his crazy looks back then. saying that it was his first album, and *the first* Video game music album ever. haha, it was you. That's awesome. You should've said you were from GFF too. He wanted us to.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Coming back to Montreal in 09?

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Aw hey Tommy, It makes me sad to see you'll be skipping over Montreal this year.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Hey Tommy, any rough guess as to when you'll be hitting montreal again? Your calendar says 2010 but would you be able to narrow it down furthur?

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Hey Tommy! Nice to see you frequent the establishment again. I've picked up a pair of tickets for when you come back to Montreal in April and I can't wait. It'll be a blast again, and I hope to get another t-shirt all autographed up.

It's also good to see you've moved into a larger hall that can hold more people. The Place des Arts is a great venue for the show, guaranteed you'll have a full house.


See you in April!

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Thanks for the awesome show last night! Enjoy the rest of your Canadian tour

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