bonniegrrl | Yellowcard: Playing Star Wars

While Boba Fett may have died on the big screen, he reappeared briefly onstage along with Darth Vader and an arsenal of stormtroopers as special guests at Yellowcard's September 2006 performance at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle in front of thousands of fans.

"The band has always been big Star Wars fans," lead singer Ryan Key says. "As a matter of fact, at the beginning of all our shows we would play the Imperial March, the Jedi theme, or the opening credits theme before we got into our set. So having an official stormtrooper invasion at our show was one of those special moments for our fans that they'll never forget. The stormtroopers came out in the flying-V formation; then Darth Vader marched out and came up to the mic and started his famous breathing. And as soon as he started talking the crowd just went crazy."

"We had the stormtroopers come back out in the middle of the set too, along with Boba Fett, and we played the cantina music over the PA as they brought us our beverages on stage," Key continues. "We always want our fans to see something unique and memorable, and I think Darth Vader and Boba Fett on stage sure accomplished that."

Read my full interview with Ryan Key here:
Yellowcard: Playing Star Wars