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You are too kind. It is my responsibility to pass on the greatness of Johnny Dub!

I think the disaster scores are fantastic! I think Earthquake would have to be my least favorite score, with The Poseidon Adventure taking the cake. Irwin Allen made some great movies. Oh, and of course I love Lost in Space! Yeah! And how about you, Joe? Are you a fan of the Irwin Allen scores?

Oh boy.

Hello Josh, My favorite scores by Johnny were composed mostly in the 70's, Superman, Star Wars, Jaws, The Cowboys, The Fury, etc. However, I like the meoldic simplicity behind much of his music from the 50's and 60's, The Rare Breed, The Reivers, M Squad, Wagon Train, etc. Recently, I find myself more impressed with his ability to keep attempting to find new ways to compose, but I don't find myself, as a whole, enjoying the last 10 years nearly as much as any other previous decade of output. My favorite thing about his scores these days is that he sounds MUCH more mature as a composer. He has left, for the most part, the days of using the great melodic and harmonic tendencies of 19th century Romanticism, and I really enjoy this always developing maturity. He was a young lion in the 60's and 70's, and as a result his music was much more ferocious. This is true of just about every great composer in the history of music (save a few here and there); the young bravado usually makes its way into bigger sound, more biting harmonies, and sheer energy in the music than it does later in their careers. I think composers as they get older, just as most peoples attitudes as they age, have a tendency to calm down and approach things with a much more cerebral point of view. In the last 10 years, I would have to say my favorite Williams score is from Sleepers. Yes, I noticed this lack of tolerance on an interesting forum topic: Is Williams' Ego Getting Bigger??? An odd topic name for a Johnny Dub fan site, but after reading it I was amazed at how much everyone stomped on the person who started the topic. I hope this isn't the norm in this discussion group. It seems to me that whoever this person was had some interesting points, so I just hope I don't get squashed as quickly for anything I might post! I'm too old to worry about having a heart attack!

Hi, as I've posted, I'm new to this forum, and I am wondering what needs to be done in order to size down a picture to the specifications required in order to actually fit it on the avatar thing. I'm not the most computer savy (too old I guess), and any help would be great. Thanks!

Thanks! Most of them are absolutely into Johnny Dub as some of my grandchildren are musicians in their own respect. One, my youngest grandson, sang on the soundtrack to The Patriot. He was part of the recorded choir that was singing in church during the movie. He has sang in a number of other scores, but he enjoyed that one because he had a chance to meet a true master. I have one grandson who can't stand his stuff, he studied music at Cornell, very purist type. However, even he has started to come around recently, as he no longer is in music, he is working for the government.

The doctors saved the second head though. They froze it for about 20 years, then made some alterations to the physical features, sold it to a Brazilian couple and they named it Gustavo. They raised him, taught him guitar, and now he has an Academy Award. hem, hem Merkel, I am pre Jaws, I am a first season Lost In Space fan. Thats a full decade before Jaws Well, Joe, it sounds like we have a lot in common...age! My hat's off to you good sir.

Ha! True!!

Right, no orchestras 2000 years ago, but instrument groups, early fractured modal harmony (as the greeks and romans knew it in the time of Strabo and Heron) and rhythm from that period pop up in The Robe from time to time. For me that makes the score worth my attention.

Sorry, I was referring to the harmonic ideas that were present during the period that The Robe took place in (during the time of Christ). Of course it wasn't completely literal, but I thought it was a nice mix of then contemporary orchestral sound and biblicalesque qualities (whatever THAT means)!

Perhaps an alternate reality where every film score is composed either by Hans Zimmer or Gustavo Santoalla?

What is it that you find boring? When these scores were produced, wow, they were an overnight success. I really like the score to The Robe mostly because of the amount of research that went into it, you can hear how literal some of the harmonic tendencies are to the period. And for me, one of the mother film scores of all time is The Ten Commandments.

Through the 1960's Williams wasn't THE guy, not yet. It was all Jerry Goldsmith in that decade, and into the eary 70's. So, as a fan I was totally following Williams during his Mark Rydell period, very cool stuff, and I knew with a little luck and the right director he would take off like a rocket ship. Of course, at no point did I ever think a guy like Steven Spielberg would come along. And although Williams really is an amazing composer, I've always wondered where his career would have gone had it not been for meeting Spielberg. Who knows? Anyhow, I was totally into Williams well before Jaws even came along, but it wasn't until the blockbuster success of that movie did I think Williams would be well on his way to the top. I have to admit though, if Jerry Goldsmith had met Spielberg 30+ years ago, we may all be on the Jerry Goldsmith forum! It's amazing how much a great action/adventure/science fiction picture was able to do for film composers through the 70's and 80's, just amazing. If the reality based pictures that we're all experiencing today were the films of the norm back in the 70's, I don't think the role of film composer would have elevated through fame and glory nearly as quickly, if ever. But it did, and here we are, basking in the glory of our favorite film music man, Johnny Dub.

I think the score to A.I is certainly an impressive effort. I would have enjoyed more bite to the score, something llike Close Encounters.

Hey thanks! The more childish, the better, it'll keep me young!