More Friends Concert..!

[Vortigar]

Well i wouldn't really consider what they did censorship. And it wasn't a technical difficulty. Basically (i'm sure you all know the scene), when the camera closes in on Aeris and then looks up into that white sphere of light (the point at which you see Sephiroth decend to impale Aeris) they cut it and fused it to when Aeris is falling with the materia floating from her ribbon.

They probably did it just in case some people there had not beaten the game (for whatever reason). And yeah I was pretty annoyed when I got home and realised i dropped $20 on an album I thought was orchestrated only to find out that it was just the originals put onto one CD.

My favorite performance of the night was BY FAR The Black Mages. I really hope that they go on tour in the US sometime soon by themselves, since it was kind of disappointing to only get two songs out of them before going back to the orchestral pieces.

All in all it was a very fun event, even though i wasted $40 on the two albums only to find they were nothing but game music. I'm glad I caught this show and not Dear Friends, because my main reason for being there was to hear The Black mages live. Howeve, if i didn't catch this one i would have gone to the Dear Friends in San Diego most likely. (closer to me anyways, had to drive 2.5 hours from San Diego to LA for More Friends). Only wish there had been fewer technical difficulties, but oh well despite that it was a wonderful performance.