User blog:Gastropod/RTX 2015 Concert



Hello, internet. I haven't seen any posts about this yet, but thought it would be pretty cool to share. So, there was a live music concert at RTX 2015 where Jeff and Casey Williams played some songs from the RWBY soundtrack, along with Video Game Orchestra and the band Barenaked Ladies. A couple kind souls recorded the concert and uploaded it to YouTube, with surprisingly good audio for audience recordings.

Last year Casey cosplayed as Ruby at the RTX 2014 RWBY Music Panel; this year she cosplayed as Weiss. I hear she was supposed to sing "Mirror Mirror," but unfortunately they ran out of time. Jeff alternated playing between guitar and keyboards and also made a really touching speech about his work with Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. Orchestration was provided by VGO, and the other person singing with Casey is Ingrid Gerdes, a singer with VGO.

Here's a linkdump of the best videos of the set I could find. There are a couple other videos floating about, but on the whole I think they have worse audio.

Recording by YouTube user Agent Hysteria. Video quality drops about halfway through, but the audio is pretty good all the way through (timestamped links to the individual songs are provided).
 * Part 1
 * "This Will Be the Day"
 * "Gold"
 * "All Our Days"
 * Part 2
 * "Wings"
 * "Time to Say Goodbye"
 * Jeff's speech

Another recording by YouTube user Mark Lim, further away from the stage, but also with good audio.
 * "This Will Be the Day"
 * "Gold"
 * "All Our Days"
 * "Wings"
 * "Time to Say Goodbye"
 * Casey cosplaying as Weiss close-up video
 * Full playlist of the concert, featuring sets by Video Game Orchestra and Barenaked Ladies

Other live music things: there was also last year's RTX 2014 RWBY Music Panel, where Jeff and Casey performed acoustic versions of "Wings", "Mirror Mirror" and "This Will Be the Day". Funnily enough, the exact two same YouTube dudes recorded that performance too, and you can find it on their channels.