Super Mario music @ Video Games Live 2006 @ Hollywood Bowl

[IloveyouLenaKatina]

Video game elevator music...the apocalypse will soon follow.

[danooob96]

Now THIS is music.

[tomatoedrama1]

this made me cry for some reason...maby its because when i played mario it gave me more joy in a play time of 1hour then 1year of the other part of my life.

[AaronWii1]

Whenever I play games around my mom or my sister they always say "turn that off!"

But whenever I go to VGL its always a welcome sound!

[jdssurf]

I was going to be mature about this since I paid for good seats for this place to see Peter Gabriel tonight, but this is freakin stupid and the fact that you guys are,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,­,,,,,,,,,,,,,,screw it never mind lol.

[GodliKeRem1X]

this actually makes my eyes water. i can't wait till I can see it live.

[harald54123]

@GodliKeRem1X WTF?

[GodliKeRem1X]

@harald54123 9 people agree with me.

And before you say thing else, I went with my girlfriend, so stfu.

[harald54123]

@GodliKeRem1X i'm glad i'm not your girlfriend :P

[skully367]

@GodliKeRem1X You mean because of the terrible ear bleeding quality?

[ykaiilah]

I was being silly. Its the Hollywood Bowl, people always drink and talk there. Anyway, I was replying to the previous comment, they asked. LOL, I don't even know what VGL is. IS it classical music? I have only been to 3 non classical concerts. George Clinton DJ Shadow and Neil Diamond. Man, everyone was passing around joints at the Diamond one, just kidding, lol. Clintons daughter pulled out a massive joint on stage. Wow! At the House of Blues people were smoking out with DJ Shadow.

[Buschelpanzer]

8 bit music 4 eva . . . let the original be..

[Galleran]

because it's meant to be entertaining and to enjoy quality video game music while watching scenes of that game - without the "shhhh" 'n stuff...

[XReflection]

You fail at life. This isn't a normal concert. I don't think they'd expect people to be all hush hush when there's mario playing in the background..

[DECA555]

after just going to VGL today, i can straight up tell you this is not meant to be watched silently. They encourage you to clap and shout for anything you like.

[ykaiilah]

This was filmed towards the back of the Hollywood Bowl. They are laughing because this is a piece that they actually recognize and are like "Cool." These are casual audience members. If you don't put out a lot of money, you too can sit with them. They are usually drunk, asleep or talking. Even better are the pot smokers who sit in the back. The bowl is casual listeners in the back, serious listeners in the front. Actually, drinking is a must for eveyone!!

[Sithoag]

I guessing you've never been to a VGL concert before have you?

[RichardLueB]

those girls laughing...are weird..

[vtpnoy]

and creepy!

[archounduser10]

MARIO 4EVER

[cubsfan1591]

our band so needs to play this

[arrekusuof93]

Who the hell thought the woodblock was a good idea?!

[mafiagranny]

Should've been a cowbell...

[shmuga9]

ya woodblock was kinda weird. here u have like a whole orchestra, and then u have the woodblock. lol, that would've been funny with a cowbell. I GOTTA HAVE MORE COWBELL! lol

[frizdragon]

I'm with you on that.

[rugdg13]

When the song First starts, it reminds me of the music they play while your walking around in Disneyland. the instrument choice and such. ^_^ makes me feel all happy inside.

[Singingnut93]

This is classic, I just sang yesterday at the first ever Boston edition of video games live

[sagat4]

you sang? what did you sing?

[Singingnut93]

No I mean I was in the chorus.

[SunilMinnajeb]

Exactly what I was about to say ! It reminds Disneyland ^ ^ . I loved super Mario Bros, and Donkey kong. 80's was a vintage wine !

[wieremanoel]

The part when he said u should have gotten the flute just killed me..

[douchebag79]

a sign of the ages where pop culture transcends into classical music!

[shellbaby6]

i have the original nintendo somewhere in my house. im 22 so i would of been 6 when i got it. of course my dad got it for me... 2 years ago the games still worked. games were harder back then.

[SpicyxxSkater]

ya cuz now dey have cheats and stuff

[justin6378]

man, this brings a tear to my eye!

i'm 30 now and grew up with this, total nostalgia-fest!

[steelgear]

I know how you feel mate but I am just 3 years younger than u

[cadaverr]

/me DROOLS IN AMAZEMENT.

[chowdermo22]

ITS A ME , MARIO!!!!

[Madchimpz]

Our band played this version of the song in middle school.

[peafowl95]

LUCKY.

Though we did get to play Halo in seventh grade... Whatever Mario is way better. XD

[supermario1143]

keep the camera on 1 screen

[Tunacaitsith]

theyve got to put this in the Volume 2 CD or something bad is gonna happen

[retrodude666]

best...game...theme...ever.

[GREGORPANTS]

GUESS WHAT?

I got a FEVER & the only cure is MORE COW BELL BABY!!

[SUGKUG]

hahahahaha saw that sketch yesterday LOL

[jjay120]

wasnt the flute from super mario 3?

[Guitarsrock342]

COWBELL, MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!

[Taxx321]

im pretty shure at 1:15 he sais"AH you should have gotten the flute!"ROFL

[UziNanahara]

Lol He does! haha

[neothemagical]

Roflmao! Nice ears!

I get the flute every time =p

[Bpower101]

Epic Truly epic

[savvn]

lol at 1:15 someone says "i should of gotten the food"

[Motakikurushi]

Mario destroys all opposition in terms of everything!

[Sparkylilguy4u]

MARIOOO!! *squeels* this is one of the most epic medlys EVER CREATED. I reaaaally want to go see one of these concerts!!

[swiv2d]

Alot better than the Zelda one, people just like the Zelda one cause it sounds epic.

[iammonkey]

i remember this it was soo much fun

[shadowdashx]

haha teh cow bell Rulz

[zumagic19]

mario bros es mario bros

ni kien se le compare

[hazonku]

This totally PWNS. 1st music EVER to not need more cow bell. LOL.

[TiagoFirmino]

Genial... Mario é foda mesmo.

[rodrigopacheco12]

no teu cu

[TiagoFirmino]

Foi só ver sua pagina para ver o pq da sua resposta. Dor de cotovelo só pq o Sonic perdeu a "batalha" Mario vs Sonic. Que babaquice.

[rodrigopacheco12]

...eu gosto do mario caralho....eu so dixe akilo porke axei graca dixeres mario eh foda...

[PTwolf]

Mario Caralho ? Isso é algum jogo que vão lançar agora ? xD

[soyelmitrandir]

genial buen homenaje

[HoCkeyBoOza]

im going in april i cant wait

[DeadmanInc285]

There's is not a single person alive that doesn't know who Mario is.

[SnakexxFan]

actually the man who played mario in the mario bros. movie did not know mario was a game character.

[luckyx777]

That was years ago. His movie sucked anyway. Nothing like the game itself. ^_^

[hazonku]

Yeah but Jon Legazzomo as Luigi! Come on. LOL factor is like +10

[plaxcaster]

lol nice fact

[grizzerrr]

It is slow, yea, but who cares! Mario rules! Nostalgia, rightly, as one of them commented!

[12357951]

I WAS THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RDKirbyN]

Mario is awesome and will never go out of style. Say what you want, it wont.

[MosDef3000]

Nostalgia!!

[nnulph2012]

thats cool

[gravossupream]

Not bad, but they could have done a hell of alot better job with it...

[Uberkratos]

no it's different!The 1 called emokid 1119 is gay!Expecially if you dont like Mario

[marioman5432101]

Who doesn't love Mario?

Everyone loves that plumber

[ufa3]

its great!!!

who thinks that the tempo its wrong or ugly...

your listening to an orchestra! not playing a videogame...

its great the way it is!!

[MeiAi837]

So? Just because they're an orchestra doesn't give them an excuse to not play it at the right tempo.

[darkxhampster]

its for musicality of the piece.

plus there are many tempos of the music in the games

[walteriox1]

ooh jojo esta musica esta en mi subconsciente, no podia faltar en el vgl, es grandiosa.

[HanakoFairhall]

Hee, I was one of the lucky ones that saw the first Video Games Live in North America, I was really surprised Vancouver wound up being chosen, it's a really small city in the grand scheme of things ^^;

That was an awesome concert, thanks for bringing back the memories ^_^

[GodzillaFan868]

nice!

[Fatmanonice]

The tempo's way too slow. They put too much focus in making it sound dynamic rather then the actual music. When all is said and done, Smashing-Live did a lot better job with these songs.

[captaintrashbag]

It's the same self satisfied arrangement of the super mario theme that every pops orchestra plays. It really sucks that all orchestras to play that way; it's hardly the definitive way to arrange super mario to orchestra. It's lacking.

[Poneglyph]

it's good indeed but could have been better

playing the same tune twice is unnecessary. even more if there is only one song in the middle.

there's a lack of super mario world and super mario 64

[arlando00]

great... but too slow

[cantona222]

nice

[Tikitak7]

Sweet...