Palette swap ninja2/18/2023 ![]() – Tony Baldini, whose illustration for our fundraising t-shirt and mini-posters turned out incredible despite our commission coming at a terrible time in his workflowĪnd of course, we appreciate everyone who gave this event time, money, or attention. – Steve Marinucci & Andrew Gilbert for the kind words in the press – Our sponsors, Coherent Blue Software and This Old Game, whose support ensured everybody who attended left with a full-color program that included all the lyrics – Philip Wolf, for the awesome help in front and behind stage – Doug Lilly and Juli Gamble, who ran check-in even though they’d barely unpacked their things after moving to the area – John Thompson, who built and operated our one true celebrity, R2-D2 ![]() – Brendan West, who made Hertz Hall possible and then made Hertz Hall sound glorious – David Möschler, Brian Adam McCune, Baily Hopkins and the rest of the amazing folks at Awesöme Orchestra Collective who actually provided a functional answer to “where the hell do we find an orchestra?” – “The Fab Four” harmony vocalists Hannah Wolf, Erik Smith, Stephanie Dowling & Blythe Renay – Our extended band family of Travis Kindred, Anthony Martinez, Mike Christie, and Brad Marasco – Sandy Smith and Rachelle Rabin, who captured photos and video in real time – Katrin Auch, producer, costumer, videographer, and the third Ninja Maybe someday we can make it happen, knowing what we know now!Īnyway, stay tuned to your mailboxes shortly if you are a donor, and set your calendars for early May for the public release! (And how pretty is the cover, featuring photography by Sandy K, Smith?) And hey, it did!Īll the more reason to do it again, right? Alas, we just can’t afford that we used the donations to do it once, and we gave the remainder to the Awesöme Orchestra Collective as promised. It is definitely better than nothin g, and doing a “one night only” event meant we were always running a risk of something going wrong. There is a little orchestra in those first five tracks, but not a ton, which is disappointing. We had unrecoverable recording errors on the second half of the show, so this will just be the first 5 songs and a little bit of video. Public release (for free of course) will follow a few weeks after that.Īnd yes, it’s unfortunately just an EP. Good news! The PLSDSP live EP is being mixed & we expect to have the recording out to donors this month. Thanks for everything, spread the word, and MTFBWY! And if Princess Leia taught us anything, it’s that we always have hope! The live performance was a very special event for us, and it seems unlikely that we will ever get the chance to perform with an orchestra again, but we would love to work with any local organizations that feel up to the challenge. Those are at paletteswapninja or you can just watch them here in a YouTube playlist: ![]() Feel free to share these videos on social media if you like what you see. The footage we got wasn’t optimal (would you believe Dan accidentally turned off one of the cameras? LOL), but these two videos it should serve as proof that we did, in fact, pull this off. We are also releasing these songs in video form. We will continue to post our content for download here on our Music page and streaming at paletteswapninja. But fate had other plans, so we’re taking what we can get and passing it on to you! Here are the MP3 and FLAC versions - we hope you enjoy either or both!Ī side note: Due to the fan-tribute nature of this work, we still can’t offer this project through major streaming services like Spotify or Amazon Music, but we appreciate all the folks who like it enough to want it there. This is definitely better than nothing but definitely a disappointment, and we had intended to document the entire night (including encores of “Leia Organa” and the giant “Hey Jude” singalong with the orchestra and audience). As a result all we have to share is a 5-song EP (through “Imperial Holes”). Unfortunately, our audio recording suffered from an unrecoverable error after the 20-minute mark, and we didn’t get nearly as much usable video footage as we’d hoped. The good news is that the recording is ready for public release! The bad news is that it is not as complete as we’d hoped. And we not only put on the show, but we managed to donate a good chunk to the non-profit orchestra as well, thanks to our donors! We also recorded that performance as both audio and video. Then we wanted to perform it live, so last year we put out a call for help, support, and most of all, money so we could perform the entire album at Hertz Hall with the Awesöme Orchestra Collective. Happy Star Wars Day 2019 (a little early)! Two years ago today, we released our Beatles/Star Wars parody Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans and it turned out a lot of people liked it.
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