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[Wario64]

http://music.ign.com/articles/628/628131p1.html

Video Games Live, the videogame music concert experience which was previously announced to take place at the Hollywood Bowl on July 6th has now revealed a list of North American tour dates that stretches through September.

The tour, which was the brainchild of noted videogame composers Jack Wall and Tommy Tallirico, will feature music from such seminal videogames franchises Mario, Zelda, Halo, Metal Gear Solid, Warcraft, Myst, Castlevania, Medal of Honor, Sonic, Tron, Tomb Raider, Advent Rising, Headhunter, Beyond Good & Evil, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, EverQuest II as well as a classic arcade medley featuring music from Pong and Donkey Kong.

Video Games Live 2005 Tour
July
6 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl

August
11 Atlanta, GA Chastain
13 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
14 Camden, NJ Tweeter
17 Toronto, Ontario Molson Ampitheatre
19 Bristow, VA Nissan Pavilion
22 Boston, MA B of A Pavillion
24 Cleveland, OH Tower City Ampitheater
25 Columbus, OH Polaris Ampitheater
26 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend
27 Chicago, IL Northerly Island
28 Detroit, MI DTE

September
1 Denver, CO Universal Lending Pavillion
3 Dallas, TX Smirnoff
4 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods
6 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavilion
7 San Diego, CA SDSU OAT
9 Mountain View, CA Shoreline

Ticket and additional information can be found at www.videogameslive.com/

 

[black_13]

Damn, wish they would come to my town.

 

[Meier]

10 bucks to whoever goes to a show with a "Fuck Tommy!" sign.

 

[DDayton]

noted videogame composers Jack Wall and Tommy Tallirico ... as well as a classic arcade medley featuring music from Pong and Donkey Kong.

Two things...

1) The "Classic Medley" sounds annoying, as it sounds like an excuse for modern syntho-pop filled with tiny sound clips. There aren't enough tunes in the Pong-DK era for any real music... and there isn't any music in Pong, anyway.
2) Am I brain-dead if I don't know who Jack Wall is and I don't see how Tommy is all that noted?

 

[Firest0rm]

10 bucks to whoever goes to a show with a "Fuck Tommy!" sign.

It would be better if they threw a pie!

 

[Drakken]

If nothing comes up, it looks like I'll be able to go to the August 13 show in Holmdel. Woohoo!

 

[B'z-chan]

I might want to go, but my hate for Tommy is still with me. Maybe some of the bay areas finnest Gaffers want to help out with a little sabotage.

 

[Zeo]

TOMMY > NOBUO

HE LIKE TOTLY DID THE MUSICS IN COOL SPOT AND EARTHWORM JIM

 

[Beezy]

Where the fuck is NY?!

 

[Boogie9IGN]

Hmm, if it's not that expensive, I'll take the girl and myself to the Mountain View showing

 

[el jacko]

What the fuck is up with that list and why is there not a single performance in New York City?

Excitement = dead.

 

[Gribbix]

Those in the LA area may be interested in this:

Posted June 25, 2005
Video Games Live forum
Tommy Tallarico

We are also having a huge PRE-SHOW FESTIVAL event which includes...

Costume Contest

Videotopia - Interactive history of video games museum display (play the original Pong!)

Live performance by the Video Game Pianist Martin Leung

Playable games


AND ANNOUNCING FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER...


Composer & Designer public meet & greet: I was able to get all of my game designer and composer friends from all over the world to fly in for the premiere of Video Games Live at the Hollywood Bowl on July 6th.
A tentative list of game designers includes:

Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear Solid)
Yuji Naka (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Nolan Bushnell (Pong)
Toby Gard (Lara Croft/Tomb Raider)
Lorne Lanning (OddWorld)
David Perry (Earthworm Jim, Aladdin, Enter the Matrix)
Doug TeNnaple (Earthworm Jim)
Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia)
Seamus Blackley (X-BOX co-creator)
Bill Roper (Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo)
Jason Rubin (Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter)
Ted Price (Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank)
John Romero (Quake & Doom)
Donald Mustard (Advent Rising)
John Pomeroy (Dragon's Lair)
David Jaffe (Twisted Metal, God of War)

...and a VERY SPECIAL Meet & Greet appearance by none other than...

STAN LEE!!

I'm pulling out ALL the stops for this first event!

Game Composers include people like...

Marty O'Donnell (Halo)
BT (films, DJ, Tiger Woods, NFS)
Richard Jacques (Headhunter, Outrun)
Michael Giancchino (Metal of Honor)
Laura Karpman (EverQuest II)
Jason Hayes (Warcraft)
Gerard Marino (God of War)
Tom Salta (Ghost Recon II)
Bill Brown (Rainbow Six 3)
Jack Wall (Myst III, Myst IV, Splinter CellT)
Christopher Heral (Beyond Good & Evil)
Tim Larkin (Myst)

...and many others that havent been 100% confirmed yet.

...wait a sec... I forgot a composer.... me!

All of these people will be available to the public for the meet & greet FOR FREE.

Here's another thing that is an exclusive which we haven't announced yet...

We've added two amazing segments to the show....

1. God of War
2. Kingdom Hearts

 

[RiZ III]

why not seattle =(

 

[AndoCalrissian]

Pfft, no Minneapolis?

 

[Shabaz]

They should just call it Geek Fest 2005

 

[Ronabo]

They should just call it Geek Fest 2005

No that allready happened. It was called E3.

Anyways, I might try and see one of the Ohio shows.

Heres hoping that Tallirico don't F it up.