TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA at the Bell Centre, Montreal! :)

demetrios
demetrios Posts: 99,885
edited December 2008 in Other Music
Who's going tomorrow night to this show? :)

Just got my tickets to this event! Checked a few videos on youtube.com. I can't wait to check it out tomorrow!

See you soon!


http://www.geg.ca/show/event/2432
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA9DmSfufSQ

-Siberian Orchestra was formed in 1996 by Paul O'Neill who immediately approached long time friends and collaborators Robert Kinkel and Jon Oliva to form the core of the writing team.

While producing and writing for a number of years with various rock groups Paul was always looking for ways to make the music have greater and greater emotional impact. He tried to write the music that was so melodic it didn't need lyrics. And lyrics that were so poetic that they didn't need music but once you put the two of them together, the sum of the parts would be greater than the whole, and you couldn't imagine them apart. Once he'd done this, he was still looking for a way to take it to even greater heights and he realized that putting the songs within the context of a story would give it a third dimension that wou ld make that additional emotional impact possible.

With Trans-Siberian Orchestra, first the music is created with no artificial limitations, and then we seek out within the classical, rock, Broadway and R & B worlds, the very best singers and musicians to bring each song to life. This also in many ways forces us to operate on a higher level. This environment has the additional benefit of causing a cross pollenization of musical ideas, creating hybrid forms of music that normally never would have occurred, such as an R&B singer doing a classical style melody and bringing gospel touches to it that causes it to glitter in ways that even the creators could not have predicted. Another very important aspect in the creation of the band, is that there could be no limits on the members; we mix all races and ages.
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,885
    The show was just amazing! Had a wonderful time!
    Check what I bought at the merchandise table! :)

    http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp310/demetriosns/Picture002-1.jpg
  • transplant
    transplant Posts: 1,088
    Glad you had a good time. The first time I saw them, my wife and I met Paul O'Neil who happened to be standing in the very back of the theatre (we were just standing there taking a break from sitting)

    He gave us a backstage pass and autographed the back with a nice message about how he was glad we had fun etc... He also tossed in a couple TSO and Savatage guitar picks.

    I like what you bought. I have never even looked at the merch table.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,885
    there were shirts, all their cds, pins etc.. another poster (which was this one http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp310/demetriosns/Picture009.jpg ) i picked up the shirt. but the signed poster by all the members of the orchestra is just amazing. it was just 55 bucks. :)

    they played 2 sets, first was christmas tunes then the 2nd set was a few sweet beethoven jams kicked in gear, and man was i blown'd away.

    each ticket sold, every dollar went to childrens charity, 3000 dollars was raised. :)

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