Distant Worlds - Music from Final Fantasy ©

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So me and two friends (whom shall be named Jeff and Lucy) went downtown earlier tonight to see the Distant Worlds concert. It was wonderful! The music was awesome, and some of the accompanying video was quite humorous. Especially ones from the earlier games, mainly due to the graphics back then. Felt a tad bit under-dressed however. Jeff was somewhere in between semi formal and formal, Lucy was semi formal, and I was pretty much casual. A dress shirt underneath a sweater, jeans and sneakers. Essentially, I looked like a preppy. Lots of people were in full formal, although there were also quite a few people even more shoddily dressed than me. 2 Cosplayers  spotted; Rufus, and a Summoner (the class with the Horn head band).

Anyways, the concert opened with Liberi Fatali from Final Fantasy VIII (in which most of the songs were from). I can't remember the order of the songs anymore, so I'll just list the songs that were played in no particular order.

Liberi Fatali (VII)

To Zanarkand (X)

Don't be Afraid (VIII)

Ronfaure (XI)

Fisherman's Horizon (VIII)

Dear Friends (V)

Vamo alla flamenco  (IX)

Opening ~Bombing Mission (VII)

Aerith's Theme (VII)

Swing de Chocobo (FF)

Final Fantasy VII Main Theme (VII)

Love Grows (VIII)

Theme of Love (IV)

Man With a Machine Gun (VIII)

Memoro de la Stono - Distant Worlds (XI)

Opera "Maria and Draco" Aria di Mezzo Carattere (VI)

Terra's Theme (VI)

One Winged Angel (VII)

My favourite songs from them were To Zanarkand, Ronfaure, Fisherman's Horizon, Love Grows, and Maria and Draco.

It was well worth the $65 tickets, and probably would've been much more had Uematsu made an actual appearance. He did make a video appearance, however, it was short, but also comical, as the camera was pointed at a statue, while he talked.

Jeff was disappointed that he could buy the CD on sale. Was close to buying it before the concert, but he didn't get it. After the concert, he had to have it, but it was sold out. Perhaps it was Lucy's comments prior to the concert that stopped Jeff from buying it...because after when it was sold out, we were harping on him on how we totally called it.

"It'll be 7 minutes!"
"He won't take 7 minutes. He'll come back in like 2 minutes because they don't have it."

"They're sold out..."

"Told you so"

 Ride home was full of "I would do that again, and again.", "I would relive that moment just for the concert", "Now I don't have anything to look forwards to..." Guess which comment is mine. 

Anyways, I'm missing the concert already. The music I've got playing right now can't live up to a live orchestra. Yes Andrew, Touhou rock arrangement's can't beat a live orchestra.