As a child I would watch this film every time it was on TV. This was a milestone event for me, considering that Leonard Bernstein had such a tremendous influence on my musical awareness. He also wanted to “respect the legacy of the band” and to reconnect and perform again with Jed Simon. He later stated that this was because of the career-spanning nature of the concert, and playing those two songs was a “closure for him and Strapping Young Lad”. Townsend also performed, against his current principles, two Strapping Young Lad songs. The setlist was focused heavily on material from Epicloud and a few other albums from Townsend’s catalogue the setlist included no songs from Terria, Accelerated Evolution, Ki and Ghost. The band consisted of the same personnel as the recent years’ Devin Townsend Project line-up, and the special guests were Anneke van Giersbergen and Jed Simon, with Steve Vai hosting the show via pre-recorded video projected onto screens. The concert lasted approximately two and a half hours, and it was divided into two parts, with an intermission in between. Later he said that the concert would be recorded for future release. Townsend stated that he wanted to create a “more than musical” show which included a storyline, multiple performers and special effects. In November 2011, after performing a series of special Devin Townsend Project shows, Devin Townsend revealed his plan to perform a one-off concert in London, England, that would cover his musical career from mid-1990s up to that point.
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