I shot a show at The Georgia Theatre last night. The bands who played were The Buddy System, We vs. The Shark, and Megaband.
The headliner last night was a band called Megaband. They are also known as Contrband, Zeldaband or Ninjagaidenband depending on which game they are playing at any given performance.
The band consists of members from the band Cinemechanica and We vs. The Shark and plays the music of various old video games. Someone plays the game on a screen while they provide the music.
The interesting thing about this is the level of talent it takes to play these songs. When these old video games were made, they were written on synthesizers by people who knew very little if anything about music theory. The results were songs that were incredibly difficult to reproduce on conventional instruments.
Anyways, here are some of the photos, click “Read More” below or here to see the rest.
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| Noah McCarthy, who looks somewhat like Michael Cera, plays through Megaman as the band Megaband plays the game’s soundtrack. |
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| Megaband’s Bryant Williamson plays guitar as Megaman runs around on the screen behind him at The Georgia Theatre on Jan. 11, 2008. |
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| Noah McCarthy, plays Megaman on stage on a small TV which is connected to a projector that shows his progress behind the band as they play. |
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| A view of The Georgia Theatre’s soundboard while Megaband plays on stage. |
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| Luke Fields, also of the band We vs. The Shark, plays bass to accompany Megaman’s travels throughout Megaman 2 being played behind him. |
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| Mike Albanese plays drums during Megaband’s performance. |
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so that kid plays video games while the band plays? what a strange world we live in.
good to see you the other day joshers.