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Get Jared involved with Video Games Live

ZeekZeek
edited June 2008 in General Chat
For those that don't know what Video Games Live is, it is a concert where an orchastra and musicians play themes from a wide range of video game titles. Here are some examples.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp6cVT_1kfc - This clip is from the LucasArts medly section of the concert (featuring Outlaw, Grim Fandango, and Monkey Island).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVHGy9XEF9I - This clip is from their opening number which features symphonic orchastrations of 8-bit "music," if you can call the sound that Pong makes music, that is. It gets rather enjoyable to watch towards the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4804aY2JAWI - Performed at Yale, they took advantage of the organ in Woolsey Hall to perform a Castlevania medly.

I think Jared should get involved with this concert. I mean, his contributions to the Bone series as well as Sam & Max show he has a very vast range of musical talent. It would be a real treat to hear some of his work in a fully stocked symphonic setting.

Comments

  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited May 2008
    It can never hurt to ask on their music request forums!
  • jmmjmm
    edited May 2008
    Yeah, go "Video Games Live - More Than Jerks!" :eek:
  • xChri5xxChri5x
    edited May 2008
    I'd personally rather hear World of Max (I think that's the title)
  • ZeekZeek
    edited May 2008
    Jake wrote: »
    It can never hurt to ask on their music request forums!

    It's one thing to have a fan of the program suggest an musician to the orginizers. It's another thing to have the actual musician come up to the orginizers and say they are interested.

    I don't doubt that Jared knows about VGL, since he is a composer for video games. I just think using VGL's suggestion forum is a cry falling on deaf ears, which is thankfully not the case with TTG from my experiance with your forum since I first joined.
  • LaserschwertLaserschwert
    edited May 2008
    xChri5x wrote: »
    I'd personally rather hear World of Max (I think that's the title)

    Yeah... and having that one as a huge big-band dance number (like "Anything Goes")... yeah!
  • xChri5xxChri5x
    edited May 2008
    Laserschwert wrote: »
    Yeah... and having that one as a huge big-band dance number (like "Anything Goes")... yeah!

    With girls in bunny outfits
  • Tester ScottTester Scott
    edited May 2008
    Bunny Girls!!! Awesome!!!
  • ZeekZeek
    edited May 2008
    With A Kick Line!!
  • Orange+Orange+
    edited May 2008
    That's a good idea. I went to VGL this year and it was great! A Sam and Max song could really make it better.
  • ZeekZeek
    edited May 2008
    I couldn't afford tickets when they were in town, but they were playing at the Rhyman (sp?), which is like the Holy Land for any serious musician. I can only imagine how Tommy Tellarico must have felt hosting the event there.
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited May 2008
    I saw Video Games Live at GDC 2007 and was pretty underwhelmed, to be honest. Maybe my expectations were too high, but it seemed fairly cheesy to me. Before anyone jumps in here, when I say it seemed fairly cheesy, I mean even cheesier than I expected a live video game concert hosted by Tommy Tallarico to be. I'm glad that they do the shows, because it's great to get game music performed live in the US, but I was definitely whelmed.
  • ZeekZeek
    edited May 2008
    They do have their cheese moments. I saw a video of what is essentially a cosplay fashion show for the Final Fantasy section of the concert. Ugh...
  • someguyfromazoosomeguyfromazoo
    edited May 2008
    Zeek wrote: »
    They do have their cheese moments. I saw a video of what is essentially a cosplay fashion show for the Final Fantasy section of the concert. Ugh...

    *Image appears*BLUERGH!BLARF!BLAASUSURPHGUH!I think I've said enough...ewww...
  • LinqueLinque
    edited June 2008
    I had forgotten how good Outlaws's soundtrack is.

    This is a pretty good piece with some art from the game too:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX9GLacmUU
  • LinqueLinque
    edited June 2008
    Hmph, I wish the cutscenes from Outlaws were uploaded somewhere. There's only one Outlaws cutscene in Youtube. :(

    Would really like to watch the story again.


    EDIT:
    Scrap that, this guy has them all!

    http://youtube.com/user/regoonho
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