One Epic Battlestar Concert

Bear McCreary

The first of the pre­vi­ously men­tioned Bat­tlestar con­certs oc­curred this last week­end in down­town LA. Truly an amaz­ing show, I don't think I've ever been as mu­si­cally sat­is­fied as I was in those three hours. I met a friend and his fam­ily there and we all had a blast!

BrEn­dAn's Band opened the night with four songs, in­clud­ing the rock­ing "Ain't We Fa­mous" which can be heard on the Ter­mi­na­tor: The Sarah Con­nor Chron­i­cles sound­track, and "When Will the Work Be Done" which can be heard on the Bat­tlestar fi­nale "Day­break".

A night of firsts! We were the first to see per­for­mances of "Gaeta’s Lament", "Dreilide Thrace Sonata No. 1", and "Pre­lude to War". "Gaeta's Lament" is the song that Gaeta sings near the end of sea­son 4. It will be the first track of the sea­son 4 sound­track. "Dreilide Thrace Sonata No. 1" is a piano piece we hear from Star­buck's fa­ther in the show, but never get to hear the full thing. Fi­nally, "Pre­lude to War" is a in­cred­i­ble ac­tion piece from sea­son 2 that Bear thought was too com­plex to per­form in con­cert, but mas­saged it into some­thing that would work. The vi­o­lins were in­fused with metal, a very no­tice­able dif­fer­ence from the song on the sound­track—but not a bad one.

The night ended with a sur­prise ap­pear­ance, with Katee Sack­hoff mak­ing a very stealthy cameo on the piano to lead us into the fi­nale, "All Along the Watch­tower". Just like she did in the show.

The open­ing act:

And fi­nally the set list:

Videos thanks to Films in Focus. You can find a lot more in­for­ma­tion and pic­tures on Bear's blog.

Check out this cool pic!

Me, ShakaUVM and Bear

That's me on the right, Bear in front of me, friend from Quake "ShakaUVM" in the back, and his fam­ily on the left.

Posted on June 15, 2009 in Battlestar Galactica, Bear McCreary, Brendan's Band

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