Distant Worlds - March 24, 2012

Hello fans of Final Fantasy!

The Distant Worlds concert series is making its next stop in St. Louis Friday and Saturday nights, with Mr. Uematsu in attendance. I was wondering if any of you lovelies will make it to either night. I will be attending the Saturday show. From what I have gathered from LS mates who attended the February concert in Pittsburgh, the setlist is amazing and comprehensive (except there is no musical piece from xiv :(). I am very excited for the concert and hope to run into fellow xiv players.

Will you be attending?

Cheers!

(Hi Mods, I hope this post is appropriate for General Discussions even if xiv is not included in the setlist :))

~Bird

As far as I know there are FFXIV pieces on the rotation.

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Originally Posted by AdvancedWind

As far as I know there are FFXIV pieces on the rotation.

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I hope so! It wasn't on the Pittsburgh setlist. I wouldn't mind Ul'dah's GC music.

EDIT: Just checked the program and no xiv music on Saturday's set. :(

Wish I was in the US to see that.

Then again
http://images.wikia.com/southpark/im...Warcraft11.jpg
:rolleyes:

I saw them in Boston on March 10th and they played the Chocobo medley that included the XIV chocobo theme... don't think they did much beyond that at my stop as far as 14 goes.

I looked into driving the dozen or so hours to get there this weekend, but alas, it cannot be. Hope you have a blast! Report back please.

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Originally Posted by REDace0

I looked into driving the dozen or so hours to get there this weekend, but alas, it cannot be. Hope you have a blast! Report back please.

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Will do! Some of my friends got VIP tickets (jealous) so there definitely will be some photo ops!

So how was it?

Not sure what time zone you're in but the concert is 31 hours away for me...still on the road.

I'll be there both tonight and tomorrow night.

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Originally Posted by Tahldon

I'll be there both tonight and tomorrow night.

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Lucky! Wish I could have gotten both nights as well. Really want to hear ronfaure and stona. Alas...

Wear some extra large ears so I can spot you! Lol.

Happy to report that the Distant Worlds concert was everything I had expected - grandiosity, poignancy, nostalgia, sentimentality - the list goes on. You can check out programs from both Friday and Saturday nights here. As you can see, Zanarkand and Eyes on Me were played consecutively on Saturday which made it tough to hold in ALL THESE FEELINGS. The encore for Saturday was an audience singalong to One Winged Angel, which as I understand, was also the encore for Pittsburgh. Ran into a few cosplayers, really was hoping for more! Took pics with a very jovial RDM and Le Louche (?) - pic here.

Amazing amazing experience. I urge everyone to experience it if you have the chance.

In closing, here is Susan Calloway, Arnie Roth, my buddy Haruhara Haruko of Bodhum and Nabuo Uematsu.

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BE...SU+-+STEVE.jpg

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Originally Posted by JusticeReborn

I saw them in Boston on March 10th and they played the Chocobo medley that included the XIV chocobo theme... don't think they did much beyond that at my stop as far as 14 goes.

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Same at the London concert during november 2011. Great one :3

Very nice. The playlists for both days look quite awesome ! Too bad I'm probably not gonna be able to see them live anytime soon.
By the way I think the white-haired cosplay is Setzer from ffvi. ;)

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Originally Posted by Shaedhen

Very nice. The playlists for both days look quite awesome ! Too bad I'm probably not gonna be able to see them live anytime soon.
By the way I think the white-haired cosplay is Setzer from ffvi. ;)

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Ooops she totally didn't correct me when I misidentified her :P

That looks like tons of fun! Makes me think of my show. Did they do the encore sing-a-long of "One Winged Angel?" At Boston, they had the audience sing along, with a pre-performance "Here's what to say and when"

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Originally Posted by JusticeReborn

That looks like tons of fun! Makes me think of my show. Did they do the encore sing-a-long of "One Winged Angel?" At Boston, they had the audience sing along, with a pre-performance "Here's what to say and when"

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Now I'm starting to think that my show wasn't that special!:p I seriously and naively thought that the singalong was for the St. Louis audience only. But alas, it was just a repeat of Pittsburgh, Boston and earlier shows.

We had a voice exercise prior to it with the pianist giving us the chords to "Sephiroth!" and the audience practicing to sing it on key and in tempo. The overall effort was good, but implementation was...let's just say that once the piece started playing, the audience sat in awe while lines of Latin from the main portion of the song appeared on the screen. LOL! The "choir" was alive again at the "veni veni venius ne me mori facius" part. It was great!

I was thinking of attending this /sigh wish I would of but taking care of my gram more important then me getting out but next time im so going