Smeltington

I wish he thought of that!

Lol, yeah it was really poorly thought through. Just to create a manufactured obstacle for the love story, he had to decide that ALL Jedi were celibate. Given that being strong in the force is passed down from parent to child, and given that the training has to start at such a young age, they really should just breed their own younglings instead of going out in the world and taking random children back to Coruscant.

Ok, but in the actual movie, Luke's father is a Jedi. And that wouldn't be possible if his father was celibate.

The idea that Jedi can't have romantic relationships was obviously invented specifically for this movie to allow a FORBIDDEN LOVE story just to make everything spicy. A la Titanic, or Romeo and Juliet. And I guess it also conveniently puts Anakin more at odds with the Jedi order. The only thing that keeps the concept from being even more ridiculous is that the Jedi order is already monk-like. But this idea is certainly not there to tell us anything about relationships and attachment, it's just for dramatic purposes. And the movie isn't asking us to agree with the rules of the Jedi order, it's asking us to delight in the fact that the love story happened against the odds.

I would think a Williams scoring session for a jazz-style piece would be different from a typical jazz recording session, in that all the solos would be written by Williams, rather than improvised by the soloists, and therefore there shouldn't be too much variation in the length of different takes. Maybe some small variation due to the cantina pieces possibly being recorded "wild" without having to sync to the picture. But Williams probably had a tempo in mind that would keep most takes to roughly the same length. Someone with more specific knowledge of the cantina band sheet music and recording process could probably address these speculations better, and hopefully will!

I also wonder how affordable a lossless digital download would be for a set like that. Would they charge nearly the same price as they would for a physical set?

Maybe everyone will hate me, but they could just go digital. Why the hell not!

Who says the petition failed?? Although, Disney probably have a policy by now of ignoring all fan petitions related to Star Wars Mike def knows we want Star Wars, and Indy. There's no way he wouldn't pursue any possible avenues that could lead to expansions. I don't think we need to worry about him at all.

Adventures of Mutt has been fun all these years, but it would be amazing to hear anything else from Crystal Skull live! Is "Crystal Spell" a cue title?

How many levels of emboss?

Not sure if this is an insult to Williams, or a compliment?

I can think of two options: - Remove 100 other Aznavour CDs to make room - Remove 100 Roy Orbison CDs to make room Obviously removing any John Williams CDs is not an option, let alone 100 of them.

A box set that literally comes in an actual box! That's cool.

Two performances of The Force Awakens this September at Symphony Hall in Boston! https://www.bso.org/events/star-wars-the-force-awakens?performance=2024-09-05-19:30

Not exactly LTP, but the Boston Pops have a Harry Potter concert coming up this year that looks very exciting! "A Grand Suite from Harry Potter" on Sept 7 and 8. No program listed yet, but it mentions it's John Williams' music, so hopefully that means the concert suites from all three of the films he scored, and maybe some extra material from the score like they included in Boston Pops' Star Wars concert last year. https://www.bso.org/events/a-grand-suite-from-harry-potter?performance=2024-09-07-19:30