BlizzCon 2009 Video Highlights: The Closing Ceremony and Ozzy Osbourne
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pixiestixy on Monday, August 24, 2009 - 10 Comments Tags: bark at the moon, blizzcon, blizzcon 2009, closing ceremony, l80etc, level 80 elite tauren chieftans, ozzy, ozzy osbourne, paul sams, prince of darkness, rogues do it from behind, yuto miyazawa
pixiestixy on Monday, August 24, 2009 - 10 Comments Tags: bark at the moon, blizzcon, blizzcon 2009, closing ceremony, l80etc, level 80 elite tauren chieftans, ozzy, ozzy osbourne, paul sams, prince of darkness, rogues do it from behind, yuto miyazawa
After all of the panels, all of our surprise and not-so-surprise announcements, all the shopping and meeting other players, and of course all the demo playing that we could squeeze in, Blizzard still had one hell of a closing ceremony in for BlizzCon ticket holders. The closing ceremony began with Blizzard Chief Operating Officer Paul Sams recapping the overall feel of the convention and announcing that 1,000 BlizzCon-goers and watchers on Direct TV would receive guaranteed beta slots for Starcraft II.
Take a look to see the closing ceremony remarks and a video Blizzard put together highlighting the events of the weekend:
Next up on stage, we had the band Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftans. Excuse me, now that the level cap is getting raised to 85, they’ll be The Artists Formerly Known as Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftans. The band rocked out to songs including "Power of the Horde" (for the Horde!) and "I Am Murloc." Here’s a clip from their first song of the night, "Rogues Do It from Behind" (yes we do, thank you very much.) These guys know how to rock hard, and as you probably tell from the audio in this video, the bass was pumping so hard that I could feel it reverberating in my chest. Awesome.
The most anticipated performer of the night had a drawn-out entrance. After L80ETC (TAFKAL80ETC) finished their set, the Direct TV broadcast came on the screens around stage, as the audience (including me and Juggy) grew antsy. Ropes that designated aisles and a mosh pit area were taken away, and the audience brave enough to be right up front crowded in toward the stage.
Finally, the Prince of Darkness made his appearance with some shouts to the audience and introductory music accompanied with glowing red lights throughout the room. The audience grew so loud that I couldn’t even hear myself as a I screamed along. Ozzy played almost a full setlist of 10 tracks, including classics such as "War Pigs," "Iron Man" and "Crazy Train" (with special accompaniment by 9-year-old guitar prodigy Yuto Miyazawa). And at several points mid-show while singing, he doused the audience up front with buckets and hose streams of foam. The concert was an epic ending to an epic event. Wish you all could have been there rocking along with us! Here, Ozzy opens up the show with "Bark at the Moon." This one contains some NSFW language!
That's it for now, but keep checking back at Project Lore for more videos from BlizzCon. Coming up in the next couple of days we'll have more footage of live gameplay of the new races as well as more sights and sounds from the event. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!
Take a look to see the closing ceremony remarks and a video Blizzard put together highlighting the events of the weekend:
Next up on stage, we had the band Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftans. Excuse me, now that the level cap is getting raised to 85, they’ll be The Artists Formerly Known as Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftans. The band rocked out to songs including "Power of the Horde" (for the Horde!) and "I Am Murloc." Here’s a clip from their first song of the night, "Rogues Do It from Behind" (yes we do, thank you very much.) These guys know how to rock hard, and as you probably tell from the audio in this video, the bass was pumping so hard that I could feel it reverberating in my chest. Awesome.
The most anticipated performer of the night had a drawn-out entrance. After L80ETC (TAFKAL80ETC) finished their set, the Direct TV broadcast came on the screens around stage, as the audience (including me and Juggy) grew antsy. Ropes that designated aisles and a mosh pit area were taken away, and the audience brave enough to be right up front crowded in toward the stage.
Finally, the Prince of Darkness made his appearance with some shouts to the audience and introductory music accompanied with glowing red lights throughout the room. The audience grew so loud that I couldn’t even hear myself as a I screamed along. Ozzy played almost a full setlist of 10 tracks, including classics such as "War Pigs," "Iron Man" and "Crazy Train" (with special accompaniment by 9-year-old guitar prodigy Yuto Miyazawa). And at several points mid-show while singing, he doused the audience up front with buckets and hose streams of foam. The concert was an epic ending to an epic event. Wish you all could have been there rocking along with us! Here, Ozzy opens up the show with "Bark at the Moon." This one contains some NSFW language!
That's it for now, but keep checking back at Project Lore for more videos from BlizzCon. Coming up in the next couple of days we'll have more footage of live gameplay of the new races as well as more sights and sounds from the event. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!
Reader Comments (10)
sweet
also first!
cant wait to see the goblin and worgen game play :D oh and when are you guys gana do the othere raids? like ulduar OS and the new one crusaders colosium sorry if i spelled it wrong:P
I'm so freaking jealous right now.... a live performance by the pioneer of Heavy Metal and I wasn't there :(
i never heard the "power of teh heard" whear can i find that song and it would be cool to see "i am murlock" song by actual people that was one of my favorite wow songs for a while untill this song came out
the thing that allways bugged about ozzy, satan, arthas was his tittle if he is teh prince of darkness who is the king of darkness? after all in order for their to be a prince their has to be a king who is of higher authority then his son same thing with satan who is above him? we all heard the expression son of the devil does satan even have a father and arthas killed his father how ever his father was not the king of the darkness i understand their these titles are given to am accordingly to their actions or in ozzys case his songs but why not give them the highest authority other wise you leave the impression that their is someone more devious and evil just something tahts been on my mind since well since i learned of am i would hate to get into a religious discussion
as much as i am an advocate for the true prince of darkness , it just didn't sound like his best performance...I'm sure i would be saying this had i been able to go but i ordered it online. Also the guitarist who i cant think of atm was pretty much taking over while ozzy sprayed the crowd...zakk wylde was/is the better of the guitarists. But overall blizzcon was way worth the cost.
No offense pixy, but the L80ETC video's audio was kinda poor. There seemed to be some static or something, and it was fading in and out a lot. At least, that's how it was during the song. At the very end it cleared up.
The Ozzy video was the same way. Thanks for posting em though.
Ozzy is crazy lol
@Xian
It was probably the recording device, Unless you were there/watched it Via Blizz.