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Where in the LA area is your family? Would you be staying with them or looking for hotel options? LA is a pretty general term used by non-locals to describe a massive area of land that can take hours to travel through even if only going short-ish distances. How long would you come for? That is a holiday weekend in the States so prices are likely to be higher than at other times, potentially. What else would you like to see/do when in SoCal? Lots of questions I could pose to help you out having planned 2 trips and hoping to plan a third for this timeframe again.

Yes, as previously mentioned the schedule for last year's Hollywood Bowl season was announced on Feb 9th. The previous year around the same time (with no Williams performance, just E.T. Live to Projection). For the past 2 concerts I've tried both Ticketmaster and various ticket re-sellers. Ticketmaster will release all their unsold inventory to the public around the end of April/beginning of May. Ticket re-sellers like Stubhub, TicketZoom and others will have tickets posted much sooner as people who are season members of the Bowl will re-sell some tickets there. The inventory will come and go over time. Be warned you WILL pay additional service fees, shipping and/or delivery fees and even other possible extras so make sure you check out all the details before you commit on one of them. Myself, I first bought a seat on Ticketmaster for the 2014 concert but found a MUCH better seat later on Stubhub which I bought and it was worth every extra penny it cost. Each site will have different levels of fees as well and many people will list their tickets on multiple sites so checking around can save you some money for the exact same seats. Last year I watched all the sites with a section in mind and when I saw a great deal come up I bought on Ticketzoom. I bought a pair this time in the same section but closer to the main stage and again, they were worth every penny. Depending on your budget, and considering this is likely a once-in-a-lifetime event for you, you will be able to determine what sections of the Bowl to look at for seats. I am no Bowl expert but I can give you a bit of advice from my experiences there, parking or transport, getting around and overall experience. I'll say that no matter where you end up sitting you will have an amazing experience. FYI, I sat in the same garden section both times. The Bowl has a strange numbering system to their sections/rows/seats. First I was in 562 and 2016 363. Not cheap seats by any stretch but fully worth it! I'm sure there are LA locals who can provide much more info but as a tourist I'm happy to help someone else have a great JW HB experience! I can even tell you how to take a tour past some really cool places not that far from the Bowl itself. I will also add a few links here that may help you out. Hollywood Bowl Season Schedule (only a few dates announced thus far including "Movie Night" for Sunday of the September Long Weekend which was rolled into a 3rd performance by John Williams and David Newman last year). http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/tickets/calendar-fullseason The Bowl seating chart. http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/seating#section=1 Google Maps view of the Bowl. https://www.google.ca/maps/@34.1125119,-118.3390107,305m/data=!3m1!1e3 Streetview from right by my last seats. https://www.google.ca/maps/@34.1125869,-118.3391599,3a,75y,83.09h,78.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_3lr0B4g3ZeLcQUc-e8a6w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

90 bucks for 7 film scores of 90 bucks for 3? OK then....

Cool book, but I was hoping there was something more filled with his experiences and stories from being young in Hollywood to meeting Spielberg and Lucas and then forward. Still seems odd there isn't even an unauthorized book filled with anecdotes from other published interviews and such.

Seems rather odd considering we get books an all sorts of people, both official and unofficial. The music community is rather large and it's not like Williams isn't comparable to Motzart or Beethoven for his time. Aside from in their times there was no Michael Jackson or Beyonce to write a ton of books about.

I've been searching around for a housewarming gift for a friend and would love to give him something JW but CD's never have ALL that you'd want to put on them and he does enjoy reading. Are there no official or unofficial books about John Williams out there? If not, where can I learn to write?!

Love to Carrie.... Having been at this performance makes me even sadder. Farewell Princess. May the Force Be With You.... Always.

I pointed out that people run to the internet to complain about the things they obviously didn't pay any attention to, or create arguments where none should exist, and note my 3 film making critics. You take issue with me calling out dumb people for being dumb by trying to put down what are actual valid critics. Good job proving my point. Please, indeed.

Ugh what? The transmission(s) WERE beamed to a ship. The ship she was in was docked to the ship that 'received' the transmission. So you wanted the Tantive IV to be the receiving ship, giving away the fact that Leia is at the battle long before the very end, and to completely eliminate the amazing Vader in the hallway scene? It's an argument of semantics and it's ridiculous and frankly pathetic. But it gives a voice to those who have nothing better in life to do than cry foul on the internet. A huge reason why I don't partake in internet forums anymore. There's far to many morons chatting "LOCK HER UP" and the real honest and valid discussion fades quickly into the background.

See, this is what I am talking about. And I don't mean to pick on KK but before ROTJ we see as much of a "naked" Vader as we do in Rogue One. People are so quick to run to the internet and post their negativity that they don't stop and think for a moment. Plus Rogue One is not meant to be watched in between ROTS and ANH. It's a complimentary piece to be watched after you watch the Saga. Just like the Han Solo film will be. This isn't the MCU where Iron Man 2 should be watched before the Avengers so you will understand who Black Widow is. It's like a 4-6 part comic series brought to the big screen that gives an actual story to what has previously only been a few lines of text in the opening crawl. I have 3 minor nit-picks about the film and it's all about film making. First, there was no need for the on-screen text telling us what planet we were seeing. It's Star Wars. We will either figure it out or find out later like we have always done. Oddly enough there isn't any text for Mustafar. Second, there were a few editing issues that seemed like poor choices, like jumping between quick shots of the ground battle to quick shots from inside the tower and back and fourth. This also goes to the ending. It should have had Vader's rampage happening as the Death Star powered up. He gets to the airlock to see the Tantive IV jump to hyperspace at the same time the DS blasts the city and the final moment of the film should have been Jyn and Cassian on the beach in a friends embrace as the blast over takes them, the screen goes white while the music swells for a moment and then reverse iris out to the credits. I also thought the beginning could have had the big brass blast bring up the title on the star field, slowly pushing back then fading out quick before panning up to the planet. There were also a large number of shots and lines of dialogue that are still being used in the advertising that are not in the film. That is very odd to me. But then again TFA had some to. Last, I guess it makes sense given the forum, the music was good and better than most MCU scores but it just wasn't Williams. But that's what is to be expected going forward so I have no issue with it. I do enjoy it and found the touches of original SW music worked very, very well. It just wasn't "epic". Aside from my nit-picks, the film is fantastic. I'm eager to see it again this week with my nephew and likely will after that. I saw TFA 4 times and don't think matching that count with R1 is out of the question. I won't see it 10 times (once in 3D) like I did TPM but 4-5 viewings of a film by 1 person it a pretty good testament to how much they enjoy it. At the end of the day I found way way way less to pick apart with R1 than I did with TFA (Rathtars???) and sat through the entire third act with a massive grin. My exact words to my friend as the credits rolled and 95% of the theater jumped up and ran were "That was FUCKING AWESOME!" and I stand by that reaction. And I saw it in 3D as it should be seen. I still have no idea why people bitch about 3D when there's 2D screenings all over the place and if they can't find one then they can just wait till they show up. It's your own choice to see a film in 3D when you so loathe it so don't show up to bitch about it. If you MUST go to a 3D show then buy a cheap pair of single polarized glasses to watch it in 2D or take 2 pairs of glasses and make your own.

Yeah, that was a facetious comment based on all the bitching I've been reading, like how it's now a continuity error when Vader says to Leia that several transmissions were beamed to her ship. And her reply that she's on a diplomatic mission. I guess George should have had the for-thought to have Vader say "a single transmission (though we don't know if it took several because none of us know how transferring massive amounts of data in a galaxy far, far away works) were made to the mother ship of which was transferred to physical hard copy that he witnessed run through the ship as he mowed down hapless Rebels only to see that physical copy escape his grasp in a second ship that had been docked with the first" and Leia should have replied "Yeah, I received the plans and and got the fuck out of there. You caught me before I could meet with an old Jedi named Obi-wan Kenobi. Have you ever heard of him? Anyways, I put the plans in an astromech droid called Artoo-Detoo, maybe you've heard of him to, and I guess he's hiding around the ship or something ith his best buddy, a translator droid called See-Threepio. Anyways I don't have the plans anymore." That would have made A New Hope soooooooo much better. I've seen many multiple people bitch that there were no Bothans dying just like people here bitching about several clearly laid out points in the movie. Hence me asking if people actually watch the movies and TV shows they are so quick to run to the internet to spout off their outrage over and act like a Drumpf when called out for not having actually watched what they claim they love so much.

Do people actually watch movies and TV shows before they run to the internet to complain (cry) about them? I mean holy crap there's discussion here that Finn wasn't sexually attracted to Rey? WTF??? And what does that have to do with this movie? Hands up all those who thought throughout "were are all these Bothans who are going to die?"! I'm going back to using the internet for what it was designed for - porn.

The movie was FUCKING AWESOME!

Haha just checked mine and it says it arrived in LA tonight, after being processed in La this morning. Yay! Accept I'm not in LA. :S

Mine finally shipped today! Thanks LaLaLaEmployee3! Now it should arrive before the holidays and will instantly take me back to X-mas '94 when I got the original soundtrack CD. I even snuck it out from under the tree on X-mas eve, carefully unwrapped it and listened to it on my crappy bookshelf stereo in my room as a fell asleep. Then the next morning re-wrapping it and slyly slipping it back under the tree while others were concerned with stockings and coffee. Best. Christmas. Ever!

I, for one, loved the Star Wars in Concert tour and found the presentation fantastic. I guess I don't feel the need to be a snooty snob about "perfect" accoustics and so fourth. The rock show presentation was great. A full live to projection would be fantastic as well however if you sit through 2 hours of A New Hope you don't get The Imperial March or Duel of the Fates. In my opinion there is a place for both types of concerts and judging by the crowds and plethora of videos on YouTube there are tons of people who very much enjoyed things on the first tour. I'll hold out hope until there is an official cancellation from Lucasfilm. But then again Disney has already made a number of terrible decisions that hurt fans so I'' take my memories of the first tour and keep them close. Save for the idiots who tried to turn the encore into a ho-down.

26 days left in 2016 and not a peep to follow-up the initial announcement. Anyone know what is going on?

There's nothing wrong with them. Much better than a lot of junk speakers you can buy from the back of a white van for sure. And not having a glossy top I bet is much, much easier to keep clean!

Monitor 60's? They are decent, for a budget Polk speaker. Used to blow out loads of them (and 70's) on the big sale dates like Boxing Day. These are considered "old" now but I still love them. And they cost far more when I picked them up! https://www.amazon.com/Polk-Audio-TSi500-Floorstanding-Speaker/dp/B001OAAQBI?th=1 I don't dare go near full blast either. Not even the bars I've worked at would be as loud and I wore earplugs as well.

I can only picture this while reading your poll update.

I picked Last Crusade because it's my favourite Indy film and I'm not sure there's more music from Saving Private Ryan. I could be wrong as I don't follow this all as closely as some of you. But really, why doesn't the poll have "EVERYTHING NOT YET RELEASED"? Cus I'd pick that. Twice.

Mine doesn't ship for 2-3 days Though I might have one thing or another in the pipeline that's got me a little bit excited....

While I agree that 1941 is his "worst" I do so only in that 1941 tries way, way to hard and is jam packed with so much stuff that it trips over itself many times. That being said I still enjoy the film and it's far superior than much of the tripe that is churned out by Hollywood year after year. Calling it Spielberg's worst is like calling a painting Leonardo's worst. It's still better than so many other. TLW is grossly underrated and falls into the category of going bigger but not the same as it's predecessor that fails to garner critical and so-called popular aclaim. Then again doing much the same (The Hangover II) gets you pretty much the opposite negative reaction. Like TFA. I only have 2 gripes with TLW or otherwise would hold it with as much regard as I do JP. First, after the last island chase and helicopter rescue the transition to the Ingen helicopter is a classic Spielberg trick but it lacks a complete sense of time elapsed because it goes from a middle of the night scene to another middle of the night scene. I believe as everyone is getting rescued and as Ludlow is "congratulating" Roland the scene setting should have been dawn, followed by the Ingen helicopter landing at the San Diego dock at Dusk. It would show that time has passed between the 2 scenes rather than feeling like after a long chase through an island jungle, later that night a T-Rex rampages San Diego. Second, and I'm sure everyone can agree.... WTF happens on the boat? Was it Raptors? Compys? Spontaneous Combustion? It wasn't the Rex but there's no explanation and I feel that confuses the viewer. But the Rex attacking the light pole kind of makes up for it. As for the score, so different and so exciting. Can't wait to get my hands and ears on the full expanded score! And I'm sure everyone knows but the cameo at the end is always awesome.

Came to post this. Thanks, quoted and adding this to go with it!