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    Indiana Jones Alternate Takes Thread

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    1 hour ago, ThePenitentMan1 said:

     

    A little speed-correction goes a long way.  Plus, two tracks that are the same take, but ever-so-slightly different speeds still creates a very distinctive sound when laid on top of each other, kinda like a jet plane flyby:

       

     

     

    EDIT: Here's the DCC overlaid onto the unmodified Concord from the Youtube link I just posted:

     

    Fascinating, thank you. 

    Indiana Jones Alternate Takes Thread

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    Isn't lining up the cues from the original OST, the film and the concord release a bit of a nightmare because the concord release has a slightly higher or lower pitch? and it's not consistent? 

     

    So lining them up against each other and revealing the same take through identifying phase isn't possible when the concord release is involved? 

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    JWFan turns 25!

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    Happy Birthday JWFAN! 

     

    I joined back in May 2002. I remember talking about Wlliams' Scores (Mainly Star Wars Music) with people from school and everyone thought I was insane. I came onto JWFAN where people understood and we're more accepting... a place where we could all be insane together! 

     

    Thank you everyone 🙏

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    Star Tours Disneyland Tokyo [William Ross Recording With The London Symphony Orchestra]

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    There were new recordings made of the Star Wars music (1-6) using the London Symphony Orchestra in Abbey Road Studio 1 in 2013, conducted by William Ross. 

     

    Confirmed what was recorded in this article: https://www.endorexpress.net/parks/disneyparks/tokyo-disneyland/2013/07/williamross/

     

    Highlights; 

     

    "We created a kind of 40 minute “suite” of music from the 6 films. We ran it by John Williams and got his approval." - William Ross

     

    "It would be great to be able to hear this music somehow on CD or something…" - Interviewer 

     

    Ross' reply, "I think that would be wonderful. It’s a beautifully recorded piece of music…Abbey Road, the London Symphony Orchestra playing that iconic music! The Star Wars music is in their DNA and they were very happy with it. I think there’s a wonderful degree of integrity to the music and personally believe it would make a wonderful CD…but who knows." 

     

    So the question is, where the hell is the audio for this and can we have it!!!? 

     

    You can hear a little of The Imperial March in this phone video at the beggining (It sounds so fresh!!!)

     

    Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!

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    1 hour ago, Tallguy said:

     

    This fascinates me. For one thing I was 8 when I got the original double LP. And although it grew on me (because it was Star Wars) I didn't have anticipation for it. Your story is ground zero nerd love. Wow.

     

    In the coming years before the SE sets this (rather pricey) box was the only way to get the Trilogy music. (Was that really only a four year gap? Astounding!) I remember working in a music store in 1994 and there was a kid who wanted Star Wars music. Being rather socially tone-deaf and also a zealot it never occurred to me to offer the Skywalker Symphony or another re-recording that was more in line with what the kid's Mom was willing to spend. I mean your grade school child likes Star Wars, why WOULDN'T you buy him an expensive, elaborate box set for music that he THINKS he might like? Yes, sometimes I was a cautionary tale.

    "Your story is ground zero nerd love." ROTFLMAO

     

    Yeah I think the anthology boxset was £99.99 in HMV. It took me a while to save up for the special edition sets as well, however they seemed to be more mainstream and appeared in far more stores than the anthology set did. I didn't have the internet at that point, stumbling on releases was really my only way of finding these things out, we had the internet at school but it had filters for anything that wasn't related to the lessons. When I stumbled on the Empire SE set in HMV it was in one of those empty cases with a blue card saying Empire Strikes Back Special Edition blah blah ask at the counter. I asked to see it and I remember my eye's widening at the track list for Disc One Track 4, "Aboard The Executor", I thought this is it! the film version of the march at last! Nope! :(. I begged my Mother to buy it but it was £49.99! I had no chance. That was the leather non plastic version. 

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    Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!

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    This is amazing reading everyone's wholesome stories around this boxset. 

     

    I was 6 years old when I got this set in 1993, I had to wait until I got enough money from Family Christmas cards to be able to buy it from HMV. I vividly remember going home on the bus after getting it and I was physically shaking with excitement and anticipation on the journey home, which would have only been around an hour at the most, but felt like an eternity, especially at that age.

     

    I think it's still the most excited I've ever been with a soundtrack release, the special editions were close but just didn't have the same kind of energy for some reason. I didn't even have all the OST's before I had the anthology, I never found them in record stores. The only Star Wars music I had before the anthology was Varèse Sarabande's Star Wars Trilogy released in 1990.

     

    When I got home I remember putting in disc two first and skipping to all the statements of the Imperial March 😂. At that point I hadn't heard the OST's at all and only had the original versions of the films on VHS. So when it got the end of the Magic Tree and Yoda and The Force those huge Imperial March statements blew my head off! (For clarification the original film version just tracked the ostinato from the film take recording of the Imperial Fleet, clunky edit as well). 

     

    Oh the magic 🙏 it was so special. 

    HOOK (1991) - NEW! 2023 3-CD Ultimate Edition Produced, Edited, and Mastered by Mike Matessino featuring all Williams/Bricusse songs

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    2 hours ago, Alan said:

     

    If it's any consolation my Harry Potter boxset order from Nov 2018 is still "Awaiting Shipment" on their website and I received that less than a week after release. Not saying the same will be true this time but this years Black Friday order is still awaiting shipment for me and I'm not worried :)

    I had the same thing, it still says "Awaiting Shipment".

     

    I just got a "Shipped" confirmation! (Order Hook and Sneakers). I'm in the UK so probably going to be a few weeks. Probably lucky if I get it before Christmas :(, it took 7 weeks to get the Intrada Solo Deluxe on CD, customs :angry:.

     

     

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