if it means anything to you
Set 1 Release, Rearviewmirror, Severed Hand, Corduroy, World Wide Suicide, Animal, Marker In The Sand, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Given To Fly, I Got Id, Daughter/(W.M.A.), Big Wave, Grievance, Wasted Reprise, Better Man, Do The Evolution
Encore 1 Man Of The Hour, Nothingman, Gone, Black, Alive
Encore 2 Go, Why Go, Throw Your Hatred Down, Rockin' In The Free World
didnt i hear even flow? all awesome songs. they come out and do a sit down set for encore 1 and then after gone say "we're changing plans, screw tommorow night" and proceed to rock out. best concert i will ever see
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GameSpy: When they first approached you about being Kirk's voice in these games, what was it that made you say, "Sure, I'll do it"?
William Shatner: The truth of the matter is that I said no for the longest time. I didn't want to do it. But they kept coming back to me, "Please do it." It was the groveling that got me. It broke my heart. So I said, "Show me the game." And when they told me what it was about, it seemed really cool. Star Trek is coming back, you can feel it in the air. They're working on a new movie, my book Captain's Glory is selling well, and now this game.
GameSpy: You'd previously done Kirk's voice for the video game Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Star Trek: The Animated Series, which comes out on DVD later this month, and in an episode of Futurama. How did this experience compare?
Shatner: Well, a game is a really weird way of performing because if the player turns left, they have to write and I have to say what you'd say when you're turning left, and if the player turns right, they have to write and I have to say what you'd say when you're turning right. And it's difficult to perform as an actor because usually you follow where a character goes, but in this you also have to do the exact opposite. So it's really weird.
GameSpy: Does it take you a lot of time to get back into the Kirk headspace?
Shatner: I have to do a lot of preparation. I need to walk. So I took a walk with my wife. And there's a tree near my house that I have to climb to get into this part, so I climbed the tree and broke off a little twig, and there he was…
GameSpy: Uh, okay. You've also done some non-Kirk voice work for such animated movies as Over The Hedge and The Wild, and for TV cartoons like Atomic Betty or Eek! The Cat. Have you ever been doing a voice for something and had the director say, "Uh, you're sounding a little too Kirk-like"?
Shatner: No. But you have to explain that to me: What's "Kirk-like"?
GameSpy: Well, Kirk is very commanding, very authoritative…
Shatner: My wife just said that coming here, actually. No, there's no such thing. I just say the words. "NO!" Was that Kirk-like?
GameSpy: Yeah.
Shatner: But that's also how I ordered dinner last night.
GameSpy: Well, maybe you're always Kirk-like. You have a very distinctive way of speaking, one that people like to make fun of you for. How often do you realize someone wants you for a job because they want you to do that Shatner thing?
Shatner: That's happened on occasion, yeah. But I don't know what you're talking about. As far as I'm concerned, I have a smooth, mellifluous delivery that's kind of a monotone.
GameSpy: Now, Star Trek: Legacy not only features you as Kirk, but the other four actors who've played Captains on Trek shows do their character's voices as well. Did you do your sessions on your own, or with any of the other actors?
Shatner: No, I was on my own. But we've met. When Patrick Stewart lived in Los Angeles, my wife and I used to spend time with him and his wife.
GameSpy: When it was announced that you were doing these games, did you get calls from Leonard Nimoy or anyone else from Star Trek asking if they could be in the games, too?
Shatner: All the time. They assailed me. George Takei called me three times, asking if I could get him in the games. And I said, "George, I'll try," and I never made that call. But they didn't want Nimoy. The only person who wants Nimoy is his wife, and she's been having doubts.
GameSpy: Has anyone ever approached you about doing a T.J. Hooker game?
Shatner: There was a T.J. Hooker pinball game. I've got one, but it's in storage.
GameSpy: Is there anyone in your life who's going to be a lot more impressed that you're in a video game than with anything else you've done?
Shatner: My grandson. But then nothing much impresses him.
GameSpy: There's been a lot of talk about a new Star Trek movie. What can you tell us about it?
Shatner: My understanding is that Spock metamorphasises into Kirk. That's what I understand.
GameSpy: Did you ever think, when you were doing the original show, that you'd still be talking Trek forty years later? Because you've probably done things in your career and known right away they wouldn't last, just as you've probably done things that you thought were pretty cool.
Shatner: And you know what happens? It's always exactly the opposite. You do something and think, "This is going to last, this is huge," and nothing happens, and you do something else you think is nothing, and it ends up taking off. No one ever knows. No one ever does.
I remember Even Flow, and my own set of keys, and credit cards...
I too remember even flow, there was a huge mega-ultra drum solo.
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