Video Games Live is playing a sold-out show in San Diego during Comic-Con this Saturday, and today they announced that those of us who couldn't get tickets can still catch the show live on Twitch from the comfort of our couches.
If you've never been to Video Games Live, it's a surreal show—in the summer of 2012 a friend and I snuck into the Nokia Theater in downtown LA to watch their E3 performance, a 2+ hour aural smorgasbord of video game music performed by a live orchestra. Veteran musician and VGL co-creator Tommy Tallarico emcees a rollicking concert that showcases professional musicians, video game composers and YouTube celebrities in rapid succession. Almost every piece of live music is bookended by crazy laser light shows and short stage bits where Tallarico plays guitar solos, interviews gaming luminaries or pulls audience members up on stage to play games in front of the whole orchestra.
Rock Chicago MagazineVideo Games Live sells out pretty regularly, but now that you can livestream the show you can still watch a full orchestra playing Tetris music.
Some of these segments toe the line between entertainment and pandering to fanboys, and Tallarico's bombastic stage presence is an acquired taste. Yet no matter how you feel about the people on stage, it's hard to quibble with the talent behind them. Video Games Live is the biggest and longest-touring video game music concert in the world—yes, there have been others—and it's probably the best these tracks will ever sound. They recorded the Video Games Live album at Abbey Road Studios, for chrissakes.
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