Haha I think you officially got Mitch slapped as us pentaholics say wow your reaction was just as I expected thank you so much for reacting to it for me they have a video for it they are zombies lol but this is definitely the best Mitch slap for anyone that listens to it ❤️🤗😊
@@mazcolyer1972 I join the group of "Mitch-slapped" people. I was Mitch slapped in October 2020 with Hallelujah. Been there --- done that --- and happy to be still Mitch-slapped every time --- even when you know it is coming.
@@megjones7860 yeah I'm with you there every video Mitch gets to shine in is a Mitch slap for me haha 😂 plenty of Mitch slaps from the Christmas album for sure
Personal opinion, yes, this is WAY better than the official video. No objection to the official video, it's kind of funny, but this performance is amazing.
Awesome reaction! Mitch and Red Bull is a magic combination, right? I loved watching your face witnessing Mitch going nuts and Avi destroying the speakers.. looking forward to your next one!
I love this live performance of Aha! I've heard when Avi hit that very low note in the intro, he blew some speakers. I think that's why you don't hear his part very much in the rest of the song. Mitch absolutely amazes me with his voice & high notes every time I listen!
According to reports it was after this that they started carrying their own sound equipment to cope with Avi's bass. It is something acapella bands have learned to do to avoid this because the venues don't know how to cope. And yes Avi was trained in opera and the guy can really project his voice. The rest of the story seems to be Mitch drinking Red Bulls to cope with jet lag just before the performance. This is the only recording of this show. The official video is quite different. Great reaction to the most epic "you should have been there" moment of this band 🙂
@@EchoesOfEmotionReact I better give you this. They got the opening piece from Avi. Christus Factus Est is the title. One of the many choirs and acapella groups he was in. Check top row left side you can tell him by his hair. ua-cam.com/video/BIn-wM5sVM0/v-deo.html
@@gailseatonhumbert In his college choral groups, Avi always seemed to be wearing a tux that was about 2 sizes too large. Have you noticed that, too? Like in Fermata Nowhere's "12 Days of Christmas".
@@charlottevan_8 I don't think he had alot of money for clothes or real interest in them. His father was a school teacher and his mother didn't work especially after the accident. He did talk about borrowing clothes from Scott for the Singoff audition etc. and Esther, his sister, has talked about his lack of interest in clothes or fashion. It took, I think Avi said recently, almost a year to save up enough to buy his first guitar. He was the one who was the choir nerd. The trio have admitted they were the cool kids in high school.
Yes there is an official video where you hear a lot of nuances that are lost in this live performance. That being said this is absolutely amazing, Mitch really has it going on that night, and Avi was well just being Avi! These 2 together are soooooooo special. Loved your reaction Thank you.
The initial choral piece was brought to the group by Avi, who had sung it with a prior group. It was added to give Kevin time to put away his cello from the prior song. During Avi's solo, Mitch & Scott moved closer to Kirstie, and Kevin came onstage next to Scott. It's too bad we never get to see Kevin, but you can certainly hear all the crazy beats and whooshes and rattles he is doing. I saw them in concert, and when Avi hit those really low notes, the whole place shook!
I've watched 2-3 other videos from that concert, taken by that same person, and if feels to me like she just has no interest in showing Kevin. Throughout this song, we know he's onstage, but she never pans over to show him, not once, and it happens in several other songs as well. I'm obsessed with this performance of Aha!, and they did amazing work on other songs in the concert, including putting down their individual mics and gathering around one single mic to sing a Christmas song, which was amazing (and we get to see Kevin from the back.) But I'm not really interested in watching the other videos from this person just because she seems to be ignoring Kevin, and I don't appreciate that. Have you looked at those videos? Did you notice the same thing?
@@LoriPeace I've often wondered about that. This song would be so much less epic without Kevin's beatboxing. It bugged me so much that I searched for another video of this performance and found one with Kevin standing right next to Scott, but now I can't find the link. If the person recording this had only showed his elbow or something, we wouldn't feel the need to explain every time that he is there!
@@LoriPeace It took me a while, but I found it! The video is named "Shaun Chew First of June", which was the day of the concert in 2015. There is a LOT of extra stuff here, but it's kind of fun to watch parts of the concert. At 9:30 they are doing Papoutai with Kevin playing the cello (very cool graphics). Then, at 9:47 it jumps to the choral part before Aha!. You can see Mitch and Scott move over and Kevin comes onstage. The whole clip is only about 10 seconds, but it helped me envision Kevin up there. 🤩Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/bmYuUbaIKqw/v-deo.html
The Christus Factus opening was added by Avi to give Kevin time to put away his cello between the last performance and this one. They've also used other songs (like Greensleeves at the holidays) to close the gap for Kevin.
Doing all the syncopated background parts is hard to do in a studio environment where you can do it over and adjust things electronically in mixing. The difficulty of doing this live is about a 20 on a scale of 1 to 10. Crowd noise, sound delays (just a fact with sound traveling through cords and wi-fi) the adrenaline of being in front of a crowd, and anything else that can happen live, this is a whole other level talent and discipline. If any of them get off track or off beat doing this song it could turn into a train wreck in a hurry. I don't think there are too many people, outside of these special five, that could do this and do it that well.
Love Avi's operatic intro, a partial actual opera piece which he wanted to add to the Aha song. This was shot with a phone camera. There are other versions live filmed better but this one Mitch was a bit "extra".😊 They also have an official video that's great done when they were quite a bit younger. Love them all.
So happy you did this 🤗❤️. I love that concert piece and your reaction is great 😘. Love Mitch going crazy 😂. And Avi's low notes are otherworldly. Thank Maz, too 🌠
This is one of my favorite Pentatonix live videos. Another live performance I absolutely love from that era is New Years Day, live performance on New Years Eve
Just going thru the playlist (catching up on your reactions) I must say I'm a little surprised not to see "Hallelujah" in this list? I recommend "The Wizard of Ahhh's" also, their version of John Lennon's cover of "Imagine" It really shows the full diversity of this group plus it sends a very very very powerful message! another great reaction 👍
@@EchoesOfEmotionReact yes, that’s why the bass notes went all fuzzy sounding midway through the song. As another commenter mentioned, they take their own bass speaker with them on tour now. I loved your reaction!
I loved how you really seemed to be listening to every note. Loved your reaction. The vocal acrobatics of Mitch on full show, his precision and control. and what great stage presence. Subscribed to your channel now!
Thank you so very much Meg🥰 I absolutely love these live performances and to see the extras that is not normally in the studio version is amazing. And thank you so much for subscribing as well🥰🤗😁
@@EchoesOfEmotionReactThank you for responding! I would love to see you do back-to-back reactions of PTX music videos vs the live versions. The music videos and recorded versions are superb but for their live performances they always seem to add more. Suggestions for comparisons -- "Can't Sleep Love" (PTX original) (the live is in Popspring 2016 ua-cam.com/video/cLD2_WwocCc/v-deo.html ); Attention and Havana (the live is at the end of the New York Times 2018 Interview ua-cam.com/video/QODx961CLe8/v-deo.html); The Prayer (the live from a fan video from the Evergreen Tour); I Saw Three Ships (Live on BYUTV.com or IHeart Christmas Special) and of course Hallelujah (live sounds exactly the same but you get to see different angles of who is singing what ua-cam.com/video/haFHrfmfHbc/v-deo.html).
@@EchoesOfEmotionReact Then there is Daft Punk that won them their first Grammy,. The official video is wonderful and there is a live version that looks like they are standing in somebody's living room doing an impromptu performance, without microphones even -- ua-cam.com/video/tw4YCsHXKgI/v-deo.html
Really enjoyable reaction to a great performance. I suggest you also watch the official video. It is also very good but totally different. Obviously the recording quality is better and you can hear the lyrics more clearly. And the plot is cute too.
There is also an "official video" version of this song, which is clearer, but this earlier live performance is SOOoo much more fun to watch! And I don't really care if I can understand the lyrics! Another great reaction - thanks for sharing it!
I know I'm in the minority with preferring the official video but that's where we get Avi's overtones and the best storytelling - a zombie Halloween theme.
Those lowest notes from Avi at the beginning caused the *first* speaker to blow out. Then the caffeine hits and Mitch goes hyperactive and no one is paying attention to anyone but Mitch, but Avi is still there, still singing low notes into a microphone, and merrily blowing out speaker after speaker. For me, that's the best part of this video, listening to steadily deteriorating sound system.
The music at the beginning is the end of a Renaissance polyphonic piece (that's the kind of music I sing a lot). There is a fun video for the studio version of this, which has a real story line, unusual for PTX. But the video distracts from Mitch's virtuosity.
There was a ton of live stuff from Pentatonix during the holidays -- specials for iHeart radio, BYU and Cracker Barrel , appearances at holiday events like the NYC tree lighting, the Disney Christmas parade and the PBS White House Christmas, and lots of fan videos from their Evergreen Christmas tour. In general, I prefer their studio versions because the sound and video quality of live performances can be bad, but there are lots of good live videos from over the years.
Avi has studied Opera. Mitch is stunning. I would also like to point out that Kirstin's and Scott's backup vocals are extremely complicated and very difficult!
Thank you for your reaction, as always. I attended their Christmas concert tour and your reaction to Mitch reminded me of the song they ended their concerts with, "Joyful, Joyful". It is live from their concerts last month. Here is the link if you want to see it: s://ua-cam.com/video/Us8Px4PAsjw/v-deo.html
Thank you so very much🥰 These clips are absolutely amazing! I am so grateful that we get to experuence it as well. Hopefully one day I will be able to attend one as well🤗🥰❤️
Story behind this is Mitch had 2 redbulls before the show and that's where it all came out!!!!
That is insane! He did an amazing job on this one👏🏼😁🤗
Mitch slapped!!! Avi has blown speakers.
Mitch’s whole performance that night was fire!
I can only imagine👏🏼😁🤯
Great reaction! Mitch at his best!
Haha I think you officially got Mitch slapped as us pentaholics say wow your reaction was just as I expected thank you so much for reacting to it for me they have a video for it they are zombies lol but this is definitely the best Mitch slap for anyone that listens to it ❤️🤗😊
It was truly amazing😱 He can definitely slap me any day all day🤣 Thank you for the request it was absolutely amazing🤗🥰❤️
@@EchoesOfEmotionReact haha yes he can me to 😂 your very welcome glad you did 🤗😊
@@mazcolyer1972 I join the group of "Mitch-slapped" people. I was Mitch slapped in October 2020 with Hallelujah. Been there --- done that --- and happy to be still Mitch-slapped every time --- even when you know it is coming.
@@megjones7860 yeah I'm with you there every video Mitch gets to shine in is a Mitch slap for me haha 😂 plenty of Mitch slaps from the Christmas album for sure
@@mazcolyer1972 Oooooo yes.....
You watched Mitch hyped up on some caffeine…….This was 👍 great……Judy D
Avi, Mitch & Red Bull... A great combination! 🤗💞
That is a fact👏🏼😁🤗
Personal opinion, yes, this is WAY better than the official video. No objection to the official video, it's kind of funny, but this performance is amazing.
Mitch had jet lag and slammed a couple of red bull prior to performance 😂
That makes a bit more sense now🤣😂😅
Awesome reaction! Mitch and Red Bull is a magic combination, right? I loved watching your face witnessing Mitch going nuts and Avi destroying the speakers.. looking forward to your next one!
He definitely should do that more often, it was amazing👏🏼😁🤗🤯
@@EchoesOfEmotionReact now days it is coffee and Mitch lol 🤣
I love this live performance of Aha! I've heard when Avi hit that very low note in the intro, he blew some speakers. I think that's why you don't hear his part very much in the rest of the song. Mitch absolutely amazes me with his voice & high notes every time I listen!
And THAT'S why PTX is The Best!
This was filmed on a phone and it couldn't handle Avi's bass. I wish they had made a good recording of it. Mitch killed this one.
According to reports it was after this that they started carrying their own sound equipment to cope with Avi's bass. It is something acapella bands have learned to do to avoid this because the venues don't know how to cope. And yes Avi was trained in opera and the guy can really project his voice. The rest of the story seems to be Mitch drinking Red Bulls to cope with jet lag just before the performance.
This is the only recording of this show.
The official video is quite different.
Great reaction to the most epic "you should have been there" moment of this band 🙂
Oh wow that is quite the backstory! Thank you for sharing, I would have loved to be there for this one👏🏼🤗😁
@@EchoesOfEmotionReact I better give you this. They got the opening piece from Avi. Christus Factus Est is the title. One of the many choirs and acapella groups he was in. Check top row left side you can tell him by his hair.
ua-cam.com/video/BIn-wM5sVM0/v-deo.html
Oooooh that is awesome thank you so very much👏🏼🤗🥰
@@gailseatonhumbert In his college choral groups, Avi always seemed to be wearing a tux that was about 2 sizes too large. Have you noticed that, too? Like in Fermata Nowhere's "12 Days of Christmas".
@@charlottevan_8 I don't think he had alot of money for clothes or real interest in them. His father was a school teacher and his mother didn't work especially after the accident. He did talk about borrowing clothes from Scott for the Singoff audition etc. and Esther, his sister, has talked about his lack of interest in clothes or fashion. It took, I think Avi said recently, almost a year to save up enough to buy his first guitar. He was the one who was the choir nerd. The trio have admitted they were the cool kids in high school.
Yes there is an official video where you hear a lot of nuances that are lost in this live performance. That being said this is absolutely amazing, Mitch really has it going on that night, and Avi was well just being Avi! These 2 together are soooooooo special. Loved your reaction Thank you.
I will definitely check out the original as well still, this was something spectacular🥰🤗👏🏼😁
YES MITCH that is the answer I love this one and even though u can't see him yes Kevin was there
I wondered why the stage looked so empty😂😁👏🏼
The initial choral piece was brought to the group by Avi, who had sung it with a prior group. It was added to give Kevin time to put away his cello from the prior song. During Avi's solo, Mitch & Scott moved closer to Kirstie, and Kevin came onstage next to Scott. It's too bad we never get to see Kevin, but you can certainly hear all the crazy beats and whooshes and rattles he is doing. I saw them in concert, and when Avi hit those really low notes, the whole place shook!
Oh yes you are right! When I saw this it looked like someone was missing! Upon watching it again I definitely hear what you mean🤯👏🏼😁
I've watched 2-3 other videos from that concert, taken by that same person, and if feels to me like she just has no interest in showing Kevin. Throughout this song, we know he's onstage, but she never pans over to show him, not once, and it happens in several other songs as well. I'm obsessed with this performance of Aha!, and they did amazing work on other songs in the concert, including putting down their individual mics and gathering around one single mic to sing a Christmas song, which was amazing (and we get to see Kevin from the back.) But I'm not really interested in watching the other videos from this person just because she seems to be ignoring Kevin, and I don't appreciate that. Have you looked at those videos? Did you notice the same thing?
@@LoriPeace I've often wondered about that. This song would be so much less epic without Kevin's beatboxing. It bugged me so much that I searched for another video of this performance and found one with Kevin standing right next to Scott, but now I can't find the link. If the person recording this had only showed his elbow or something, we wouldn't feel the need to explain every time that he is there!
@@rlhcat7662 True -- oh, man I wish I knew where to find that other video! I wonder what they called it...
@@LoriPeace It took me a while, but I found it! The video is named "Shaun Chew First of June", which was the day of the concert in 2015. There is a LOT of extra stuff here, but it's kind of fun to watch parts of the concert. At 9:30 they are doing Papoutai with Kevin playing the cello (very cool graphics). Then, at 9:47 it jumps to the choral part before Aha!. You can see Mitch and Scott move over and Kevin comes onstage. The whole clip is only about 10 seconds, but it helped me envision Kevin up there. 🤩Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/bmYuUbaIKqw/v-deo.html
Thank you!!!!! This performance, though not as nuanced as the studio, is absolutely amazing. Avi and Mitch were perfection.
Love ~ Love ~ Love ~ This performance!! Thanks for the fun reaction!
Thank you for watching🤗🥰😁
I read somewhere that Mitch was running on jet lag and Red Bull! It made for a stunning performance, if true.
The Christus Factus opening was added by Avi to give Kevin time to put away his cello between the last performance and this one. They've also used other songs (like Greensleeves at the holidays) to close the gap for Kevin.
That makes so much sense, thank you for sharing that🤗👏🏼😁
Doing all the syncopated background parts is hard to do in a studio environment where you can do it over and adjust things electronically in mixing. The difficulty of doing this live is about a 20 on a scale of 1 to 10. Crowd noise, sound delays (just a fact with sound traveling through cords and wi-fi) the adrenaline of being in front of a crowd, and anything else that can happen live, this is a whole other level talent and discipline. If any of them get off track or off beat doing this song it could turn into a train wreck in a hurry. I don't think there are too many people, outside of these special five, that could do this and do it that well.
Love Avi's operatic intro, a partial actual opera piece which he wanted to add to the Aha song. This was shot with a phone camera. There are other versions live filmed better but this one Mitch was a bit "extra".😊 They also have an official video that's great done when they were quite a bit younger. Love them all.
It was quite extra🤣 I will definitely go and have a look at the rest of them as well thank you🤗👏🏼😁
So happy you did this 🤗❤️. I love that concert piece and your reaction is great 😘. Love Mitch going crazy 😂. And Avi's low notes are otherworldly. Thank Maz, too 🌠
Thank you for watching, they are absolutely fantastic and just amade my day👏🏼🤗😁🥰
Super great.
Avi is opera trained and love his voice. What brought me to listen to PTX
This is one of my favorite Pentatonix live videos. Another live performance I absolutely love from that era is New Years Day, live performance on New Years Eve
I will definitely look out for that one as well thank you👏🏼🤗🥰
I drop another line. My reaction to this 😂? Positively freaking out 🤪 watching this & highly impressed by that Christus Factus Est Intro! 💗
Absolutely amazing👏🏼 I love your excitement in this comment🤗🥰😁
Ptx really know their strengths and harmonies. I like how Mitch is going all out performing this one.
It was definitely the highlight of the show😢👏🏼🤗
Just going thru the playlist (catching up on your reactions) I must say I'm a little surprised not to see "Hallelujah" in this list? I recommend "The Wizard of Ahhh's" also, their version of John Lennon's cover of "Imagine" It really shows the full diversity of this group plus it sends a very very very powerful message! another great reaction 👍
That is a very good idea, perhaps I should do that one very soon🤔😁🤗👏🏼
I can only imagine what that would have sounded like if Avi hadn’t blown the bass speaker!
I had no idea he blow the speaker as well🤯😱
@@EchoesOfEmotionReact yes, that’s why the bass notes went all fuzzy sounding midway through the song. As another commenter mentioned, they take their own bass speaker with them on tour now. I loved your reaction!
I loved how you really seemed to be listening to every note. Loved your reaction. The vocal acrobatics of Mitch on full show, his precision and control. and what great stage presence. Subscribed to your channel now!
Thank you so very much Meg🥰 I absolutely love these live performances and to see the extras that is not normally in the studio version is amazing. And thank you so much for subscribing as well🥰🤗😁
@@EchoesOfEmotionReactThank you for responding! I would love to see you do back-to-back reactions of PTX music videos vs the live versions. The music videos and recorded versions are superb but for their live performances they always seem to add more. Suggestions for comparisons -- "Can't Sleep Love" (PTX original) (the live is in Popspring 2016 ua-cam.com/video/cLD2_WwocCc/v-deo.html ); Attention and Havana (the live is at the end of the New York Times 2018 Interview ua-cam.com/video/QODx961CLe8/v-deo.html); The Prayer (the live from a fan video from the Evergreen Tour); I Saw Three Ships (Live on BYUTV.com or IHeart Christmas Special) and of course Hallelujah (live sounds exactly the same but you get to see different angles of who is singing what ua-cam.com/video/haFHrfmfHbc/v-deo.html).
Those all sound amazing! I think it might be a fun idea to do thank you so much🤗🥰😁
@@EchoesOfEmotionReact Then there is Daft Punk that won them their first Grammy,. The official video is wonderful and there is a live version that looks like they are standing in somebody's living room doing an impromptu performance, without microphones even -- ua-cam.com/video/tw4YCsHXKgI/v-deo.html
I have been waiting for you to react to this 😍
Definitely must see for any Pentaholic👏🏼😁🤗
Really enjoyable reaction to a great performance.
I suggest you also watch the official video. It is also very good but totally different. Obviously the recording quality is better and you can hear the lyrics more clearly. And the plot is cute too.
Thank you so very much, I definitely would love to see the original as well😁🤗👏🏼🤯
I've watched this several times and it's pretty good.
It was so unexpected as well🤔😁🤗👏🏼
love their version of this song, especially the live one
It was really spectacular👏🏼😁🤗
There is also an "official video" version of this song, which is clearer, but this earlier live performance is SOOoo much more fun to watch! And I don't really care if I can understand the lyrics! Another great reaction - thanks for sharing it!
At the beginning you said you weren’t sure if you’d seen them perform live yet or not and I thought if you had you wouldn’t forget it.
Thqt is probably true yes😂😅
I know I'm in the minority with preferring the official video but that's where we get Avi's overtones and the best storytelling - a zombie Halloween theme.
I definitely need to watch it, that sounds amazing👏🏼😁🤗
Those lowest notes from Avi at the beginning caused the *first* speaker to blow out. Then the caffeine hits and Mitch goes hyperactive and no one is paying attention to anyone but Mitch, but Avi is still there, still singing low notes into a microphone, and merrily blowing out speaker after speaker. For me, that's the best part of this video, listening to steadily deteriorating sound system.
Love this. This is an Imogene Heap song. PTX has a great video for this that is a Halloween romp. Well worth a look
It sounds very interesting, I will definitely do so thank you👏🏼😁🤗
Aha! Wow, that brings back some memories! They obviously had fun with this. My first time seeing it. Something you can only say once!
That is so true! I would have bet you had seen it all😁👏🏼🤗😅
Just love this! Clicked as soon as I saw you'd posted, knew you'd be blown away! Great reaction!
Thank you so very much🥰 It was so much fun to experience this😁👏🏼🤗
The music at the beginning is the end of a Renaissance polyphonic piece (that's the kind of music I sing a lot). There is a fun video for the studio version of this, which has a real story line, unusual for PTX. But the video distracts from Mitch's virtuosity.
I definitely will have a look at that as well thank you so very much🤗😁👏🏼
There was a ton of live stuff from Pentatonix during the holidays -- specials for iHeart radio, BYU and Cracker Barrel , appearances at holiday events like the NYC tree lighting, the Disney Christmas parade and the PBS White House Christmas, and lots of fan videos from their Evergreen Christmas tour. In general, I prefer their studio versions because the sound and video quality of live performances can be bad, but there are lots of good live videos from over the years.
Avi has studied Opera. Mitch is stunning. I would also like to point out that Kirstin's and Scott's backup vocals are extremely complicated and very difficult!
I Can imagine yes! I really focused on them the 2nd time around and it is amazing🤯😱😁
They said Mitch was suffering from jet lag and before the show, he drank 2 Red Bulls and that gave him what he needed.
Well put! 😍
Thank you for your reaction, as always. I attended their Christmas concert tour and your reaction to Mitch reminded me of the song they ended their concerts with, "Joyful, Joyful". It is live from their concerts last month. Here is the link if you want to see it: s://ua-cam.com/video/Us8Px4PAsjw/v-deo.html
Thank you so very much🥰 These clips are absolutely amazing! I am so grateful that we get to experuence it as well. Hopefully one day I will be able to attend one as well🤗🥰❤️
Here’s the link to New Year’s Day by Pentatonix ua-cam.com/video/ukTGKGe1cHg/v-deo.html
Thank you very much😁🤗👏🏼
How About MEATLOAF video of I Won't Do That. Please
As awesome as mitchs vocals, my favorite part was his smile just befire the video stopped