"Prelude to War" - So Say We All: Battlestar Galactica Live 

Let Bear do the music... So say we all

So say we all.

SO SAY WE ALL!

So Say We All

So say we all.

I'd say this sounds more like something from Blood and Chrome, but it's still the same franchise.

I love life music, I've watched a lot of shows just because bear did the soundtrack for

Paul Cartwright

The scene where apolo is floating in space watching the galactica and peggy just decimate 2 baseships is the best thing i have ever seen put to film.

SAME!! I had to do a school project, and dad suggested using this as a backing, and was like "yes. Btw, where does this come from?"

@@promnightdumpsterbaby9553 it wasn't put to film, all shot digitally :P That scene was loosely based on the experiences of ensign george gay as the battle of midway unfolded above his head while he was floating in the ocean after having been shot down.

You probably know by now, but the Duduk had a phase of popularity in 90s film scores - seemingly always played by Djivan Gasparyan. I first discovered the Duduk browsing the sleeve notes to Graeme Revell's score to The Crow... it's such a haunting sound...

@@petersvillage7447 Actually, I did NOT know, but I would probably find out anyway in a few days, because I was just planning to see The Crow this weekend on Netflix. Great timing for this comment! Back then, when the movie came out, I LOVED it, so I bought the soundtrack (although I must admit I only remember loving Burn by The Cure), and even went dressed as Eric Draven to some Purim party (kind of a semi-lame Jewish Halloween) in Tel Aviv.

@@uri.kalish Yes, I loved it at the time too - it was the first film where I realised there were two soundtrack albums, and I bought them both. I knew a Russian lady for a while who I think told me that Djivan Gasparyan was big in the Soviet Union, I think maybe that he'd actually played for Stalin or something. She sent me an entire album of Gasparyan's music... Anyway, it's him on the Gladiator soundtrack too. For a while him and his Duduk became *that* sound in film scores... anyway, glad my comment was informative, I hope you enjoy The Crow!

That sound makes this even more iconic. Been having this on repeat and finally came to find a live version ❤. The energy is epic.

LOL I can imagine that

@@tomb7545 same

Also, “I’m getting my men!”

@@Clintondmb YESSSS!!

Doug will back me up on this!

Agree with the take your money part, but not about the shut up part :P Hope he keeps making amazing music! He is truly one of a kind among composers.

😉

He is the composer for the OST to God of War Ragnarok!

DEFCON 5 is actually the lowest on the scale.

I was there, and it was a BLAST, although Bear's jaw literally dropped when he saw my driver's license (the name I use here is just a handle).

It wasn't about that until about halfway through season 3. At its heart, BSG was about humanity's struggle for survival while grappling with the notion that it may not actually be worthy of surviving.

@@jaffarebellion292 But even the theme of "is humanity worth saving" plays into the theme of two civilizations comming together. Like... Yes and no... we should save some aspects and let others die, same for the Cylons, and in the end "our" humanity got the best* of both! :D *not really, but to end in a positive note.

@@joaovitorreisdasilva9573 True, and maybe if the execution was a little better, I'd have enjoyed it tremendously. As it stands, the ending was just kind of dumb. My problem isn't that the show had a strong spiritual side. That's nothing new in sci-fi. My problem is that a lot of things are set up and never paid off. It becomes pretty clear by the end that every time the writers needed something to happen and didn't want to explain it, they just shrugged their shoulders, called it an act of God, and moved on. After all they went through, throwing away all their technology was just frakking stupid. When all was said and done, both civilizations left themselves in a position where they lacked modern medicine, advanced shelter, weapons with which to hunt and defend themselves from predators and hostile natives. In addition, the loss of all records of what happened means those who come after them are denied a chance to learn from, (and avoid repeating) their mistakes. At least it gave us one final chance to say "DAMMIT, LEE!" By the by, the flash forward at the end proved my point for me. I'm sure all those engineers working on new AI would've loved to know that "all of this has happened before".

⁠@@jaffarebellion292three things: -their technology was doomed no matter what. They have 38,000 people left out of a society of 50 billion, which inevitably means they've lost a vast amount of their technical knowledge, and they've certainly lost the bulk of their production capacity. Stuff salvaged from the ships could've kept them going for a few decades, but once that stuff started breaking down, they were screwed. They had neither the industrial base nor the means of reestablishing it required to start a new industrial society. Just look at New Caprica - they tried it there and after a year all they had was a tent city and some grounded ships, no infrastructure, industry, or even the foundations for any proper buildings until the Cylons showed up. The same would have happened on Earth, and they would have lost their technology one way or another. Ripping the band-aid off and learning how to live without it from the get-go would prevent the inevitable internal conflict that a slower industrial collapse would have. -It also wouldn't have been nearly as rough as some people seem to think. They mention in the finale that they distributed what medicine and supplies they had to all the different landing parties, and the image a lot of people have in their heads of hunter-gatherer societies as some Hobbesian state of eternal misery is somewhat detached from reality. It would not have been an easy life, but it also would not have been a bad one. -Not only is there no indication that they forgot their history on purpose, and not only is it extraordinarily unlikely that *any* history could be preserved within a group for over a hundred thousand years no matter what method you're using to record and transmit, but it's also silly to assume it would have made a difference. A quick glance at history shows that humans do the same things over and over again even when they know it will turn out poorly from history. In the show, humans repeat the mistake of networking their ships a mere twenty years after the end of the Cylon War, despite knowing the history there, and there are hundreds of historical parallels to that.

Bear just released a live album with these performances