GoodMusician
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To respond to scallenger, I like the TV HD rip. It's not "better quality" than the Blu ray, but it's a bigger image, more of the picture, and less grain than the blu ray. You can tell they don't have the original masters. Just copies because there is so much of that dark snow from data loss in all the images. If you watch the extended cuts of the Harry Potter films on blu ray, all the newly included scenes have that too becuase they're slightly less quality like an upconversion. I just hope this doesn't hamper the 3D...also...I wonder if they'll make the Potter Plant/ Stage Light blend in with thebackground or will they make those pop a little with the 3D :-p
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Anyone ever figure out why he's named after a drug?
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I swear I have ALWAYS heard a low mens choir singing as Anakin and Padme are brought into the Arena in Episode II. Especially in the high shot over the geonosians and slowly moving in towards them in the arena...
at 1:28...the low cello line. like a mens choir singing the main melody as an "mmm" sound
PS: they need to SHOOT who ever's phone went off in that Leah video...wow...choir with that is more awesome than I realized!
It seems there are two rules of concerts: cough and sneeze only when it's aboslutely quiet, and leave your phone on RING, never vibrate!
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Cause its different. The film version is edited and partially tracked from the Epilogue cue, but the film version, if you check, there's stuff before the tracked music. The original cue is only partially used and unreleased.
Also Jason, I wonder, the X at the end of the slate for "Who Will Take Care Of Me" is that maybe because its another CD Extension? "X" for e'X'tension since the film version is different?
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One could navigate it and see who plays what. I think, even without much musical grasp, it would be somewhat easy to keep along. I know Clarinets play some interesting parts. heh
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I had both sets at one point or another and honestly, signal processing is smoke and mirrors in this case.
The Original SE releases of the albums for the OT were really awesome. They had GREAT booklets that broke down every cue and talked about everything they went through to find the scores. Great wealths of knowledge. BUT... Empire was messed up bad because the original Tomlinson mixes only covered about half the score. So, in the matter of about 24 hours, they had to remix and master the rest of the score... needless to say, there were a TON of mistakes... horn channels flipped, lack of bass, narrow-mono string channels. It's just all messed up.
Then, because they couldn't locate the original elements for ROTJ, that whole score suffers from extreme de-hissing and sounds flat.
They knew this. They knew that people were complaining about the product. So, when they re-released these with new holographic covers and the lot, they marketed it as having gone through this "extraordinary" new processing... BS if you ask me.
Then they re-released them again. As far as I'm concerned, they didn't do anything they said they did. They just changed the covers cause that's the ONLY difference I noticed and with how easily Sony lied about "every note" on the UE of Episode I, with no legal consequences I might add, they could have simply said that they did this...who's to argue they didn't?
And in all consecutive re-releases, they DON'T include the liner notes... so I think for people like me (their audience) who buys the stuff, they knew they were re-printing a sub par product due to some sound quality issues AND removing the liner notes. Sounds like a bad idea right? "Lets Market it as having gone through this special sound process to IMPROVE THE SOUND! Like it's a new product! Like we HEARD our peoples cries!" ... But of course, it didn't do squat.
As has been stated, if you can get the Anthology set, you will be far more pleased with its assembly and sound. If you can, hunt down the original pressing of the SE's because even though you'll get the same quality sound as the other sets, you'll get those FANTASTIC liner notes.
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You have to clap your hands!
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There's at least two cymbal crashes I know that aren't on the same beats that I'm pretty certain aren't on the LLL or OST but thats ok :-p
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Indeed! Always has been my favourite part of the Ultimate War. Swashbuckling bravado at its best! I would love to know how many cymbal hits the Ultimate War has in total. For once the cymbal player got to play for his money's worth.
Its funny you say that, the film take of the Ultimate War has the cymbal playing a little differently at times... so you may have to count those too :-p
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JP fits on one disc... excluding the "Theme" and maybe the alternate take of "Journey to the Island which I doubt they'd put since it's not that good of a performance.
If they wanted to include those or anything else, they'd have to make a second disc because it only just barely fits on one disc so I think they should do a JP/TLW combo pack... complete score for both. That would fit really nicely. Disc 1 (JP full score), D 2 (TLW full score), D3 (Rest of TLW, plus extras).
I'd spend $40 on that!
Although, I LOVE to DEATH all the 70's williams... Towering Inferno, Jaws (1 and 2), Earthquake...I'd love ALL of these heh
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The pitch is odd sounding as high as its suppose to be and as heard in the alternate prologue, but at the same time, the album is out of tune...its delightfully inbetween pitches heh...
The lower key always sounded more accurate performance wise to me...
The higher key though is the way they perform it, matches the same sequence of music from the Flying Scene, and is backed up by being in pitch... I hate this though becuase the violins in the opening sound so wrong! but eh...it's right lol
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Jason making a JP reference now :-p I see how it is!
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I hope you get it Derick so you can txt me "I've GOT IT!"
Anyway! lol
TLW has so much more to offer but JP will NOT disappoint me lol although there's not much missing...
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i want TLW...screw T-Rex Chaser Derrick! :-p
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I was thinking Jason, that loop...remember in the french interview, the guy talks about how he and his (son/grandson/nephew I forget who) had all the available material and used the 'film as a guide.' Do you think maybe it's a remnant of that assembly? Wasn't he the one, ultimately, who edited it? And although you and I (in a general sense) are familiar with it, Williams may not have caught that slight loop knowing that he uses such a technique when writing?
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Not that they are very different, but the "Presenting the Hook" tracks are different takes of the same cue (on the LLL set). So they may be worth holding onto for that lol
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Stick with me,
Stick with Smee
You will see... :-p
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He was also one of the main brass for Jurassic Park and TLW (don't recall if he did JP3 though) ...that is sad. Its always astonished me how active people can be and how strong and then suddenly they're gone. Brilliant recordings all
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I did a complete re-edit of the finale to Episode III. It can be done. Especially with the help of the sound boards on starwars.com
I liked doing the edit. It was really...refreshing to see the story differently...and you learn a lot about what they did and what things were rushed and what not...
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Must go faster :-p
(What movies am I quoting :-p)
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I can at least say about the pre-concorde boot that if it shows symptoms of coming from a cassette... it is all uniformly slightly under pitch (due to the irregularity of cassette playback). Also, the noise seems very much a symptom of a cassette playback.
As for the songs written for the film (who's themes are still incorporated) I didn't realize there were so many! I wish we had the words to more than just the few we have but still that's so interesting to read thanks for sharing :-)
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::peed self::
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I dunno, I hear a pretty blatant usage in Deep Space 9 when the federation goes to war with the Dominion ships
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Well, his music is definately operatic at times...and honestly, I sometimes put words to the music... the way it plays out reminds me of a chorus standing off to the side of a stage, murmuring to eachother about whats going on.
Another example of what you are saying is like the Solo horn opening to "Theme from Jurassic Park"
-Jur-ASS-ic PAAAAAARK!
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Home Alone 2: Lost In New York - 20th Anniversary 2CD Edition by La-La Land Records (2012)
in JOHN WILLIAMS
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Any news on if "Christmas Tree" will be the one on the "Home Alone Christmas" album or the film version that's just choir/piano... I imagine it won't be the film version which is kinda annoying... but expected. I know it says 'previously unreleased' but hmm
The other stuff! I'm happy for...I might have to get this lol