KittBash

Expectations: Complete box sets featuring the definitive C&C versions of Star Wars, Indy or Hook.
Reality: Star Wars 2018 demasters on vinyl with Funko POPs or something.

Today it's quiet, but tomorrow there will be... something that won't feel real to me until then, despite how long it's been in the works.
 
_Mike Matessino on his Facebook status.
 
 

I hope people who didn't get it or got it cracked won't be too butthurt.

Someone should make a custom cover art for Chewy...

Where will you put it??

Finally received my copy of the Dildo of Destiny, in perfect condition 
 

It's definitely late March/early April, as I listened to a cassette of a brand new album, on the drive up to London, and the album was released on 24.3.86.

Time for another Chronology update! 
 
This time we have instead of  the under 300 updates I mentioned in my last post we have 416 new items added as well as updates to countless entries with new info as I've combed through several sources to narrow down some dates and expand on descriptions. 
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing
 

 

 
Implemented suggestions
 
Several great suggestions have come in from other members' since the last version and here's what we were able to implement. 
 
Upgraded Formatting [Suggested by @Jay] This may have been mentioned before but... it was a lot of work so I'm going to mention it again... though there are some consistency changes I want to make I just need the time and to set some rules. Upgraded Concert Categories -  @Steve brought up this idea to better delineate the concerts by William's involvement type. A version 1 of that has been integrated and is part of this update Various missed items - Several members even sent me some items that didn't make the first few versions of the chronology that I've managed to add along with the new items I've been pulling from all sorts of places. Thanks to you all and keep it up!   
Sources: Where has the new content come from 
 
This update has easily been the hardest fought so far as I've combed through all of the easy sources like JWFan itself, the forum entries here and at other sites like FSM and and am now branching out and going through texts, videos etc. Here's where we've seen some of these latest updates come from.
Online News paper articles/archives - Like I mentioned in the last update - http://johnwilliams.org/ has an excellent bibliography that has been a good resource, Google's newspaper archives have been valuable the hardest part here is all of the newspaper paywalls and broken links due to sites being redone. Literally hundreds and hundreds of articles have been combed through. I knew there were a lot as I read them over the years but it's amazing how many have been written about the man when you see them all together!  Editorial Stock Image Archives - Getty images, AP image sources and other editorial image banks looking for shots of Williams at events and other things have allowed some missing dates to be filled in and many events to confirm Williams was actually there, you can see many of these shots mentioned as Press in the source links. OST & Expanded Liner Notes - As another project I have been working on for some time on, I've digitized/OCR'd all of my copies of the Williams liner notes (even the blue box which was a chore and a half) so I've been combing through those doing searches and finding tidbits of dates and time periods that can go into the chronology. A lot has been added from those as we have some great researchers and writers in the community that have put a TON of time and effort into these notes and I really love them all... FYI everyone knows about the blue box notes being extensive but Mike Matessino's notes on Fiddler are SO full of detail it's crazy, they are worth a read to get a complete snapshot of that time!  At this point starting to run out of places to think to look, I've got a few blogs of some journalists that I've started going through but each update to the chronology may be harder and harder.
 
Anyone with thoughts and suggestions where to look next are welcome to shoot them my way! Even if I've mentioned the sources in past updates bring them up again... maybe I missed things. 
 
Now back to combing sources

As we may or may not know. Discogs is a crowd sourced site. Think of it like a Wiki. If something isn’t there and you have the data you can submit it. 
 
I’ve done that a few times for track times as it bugs me when they are omitted. 

Regarding concerts/events Williams attended, he was part of the Bowl welcoming event of Gustavo Dudamel. I think I have video grabs of that one on some back up disc.
https://www.laphil.com/press/releases/967
 
 
He attended Dudamel 's 1st season opening concert that featured the premiere of Adams' City Noir and Mahler's Titan at Disney Hall. He can be seen in the audience very briefly on the DG DVD release.
 
I also remember that someone saw him at the premiere of Goldenthal's opera Grendel (maybe someone at FSM boards).

Hey @Naïve Old Fart The UK concerts have certainly been interesting to pin down. Some like the 1998 ones you mention were easy and can be found in the sheet already [lines 1757 - 1760 of the current sheet]
 
The 86 concert on the other hand has been a little more difficult to actually find ANYTHING on.... I believe it's you who mentions it in this thread here on JWFan and I have it on my little list of things I'm trying to confirm before they go into the sheet but I haven't found a sniff of this concert anywhere yet. Even the Royal Albert Hall Archives only list the 76, 78, 80, & 85 concerts. Does anyone have any other info on this one?

@KittBash
 
Another event which John Williams attended as an audience member was the concert given by the John Wilson Orchestra at Royce Hall in Los Angeles on 25th October 2013.  We know that Williams attended because LSO percussionist David Jackson (also a member of the JWO) posted a photograph of Williams with John Wilson backstage.  Unfortunately I can no longer find the photograph online.
 
It is the concert described here.  I seem to remember that Larry King was also in the photograph.

Time for another Chronology update! 
 
This time we have instead of  the under 300 updates I mentioned in my last post we have 416 new items added as well as updates to countless entries with new info as I've combed through several sources to narrow down some dates and expand on descriptions. 
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing
 

 

 
Implemented suggestions
 
Several great suggestions have come in from other members' since the last version and here's what we were able to implement. 
 
Upgraded Formatting [Suggested by @Jay] This may have been mentioned before but... it was a lot of work so I'm going to mention it again... though there are some consistency changes I want to make I just need the time and to set some rules. Upgraded Concert Categories -  @Steve brought up this idea to better delineate the concerts by William's involvement type. A version 1 of that has been integrated and is part of this update Various missed items - Several members even sent me some items that didn't make the first few versions of the chronology that I've managed to add along with the new items I've been pulling from all sorts of places. Thanks to you all and keep it up!   
Sources: Where has the new content come from 
 
This update has easily been the hardest fought so far as I've combed through all of the easy sources like JWFan itself, the forum entries here and at other sites like FSM and and am now branching out and going through texts, videos etc. Here's where we've seen some of these latest updates come from.
Online News paper articles/archives - Like I mentioned in the last update - http://johnwilliams.org/ has an excellent bibliography that has been a good resource, Google's newspaper archives have been valuable the hardest part here is all of the newspaper paywalls and broken links due to sites being redone. Literally hundreds and hundreds of articles have been combed through. I knew there were a lot as I read them over the years but it's amazing how many have been written about the man when you see them all together!  Editorial Stock Image Archives - Getty images, AP image sources and other editorial image banks looking for shots of Williams at events and other things have allowed some missing dates to be filled in and many events to confirm Williams was actually there, you can see many of these shots mentioned as Press in the source links. OST & Expanded Liner Notes - As another project I have been working on for some time on, I've digitized/OCR'd all of my copies of the Williams liner notes (even the blue box which was a chore and a half) so I've been combing through those doing searches and finding tidbits of dates and time periods that can go into the chronology. A lot has been added from those as we have some great researchers and writers in the community that have put a TON of time and effort into these notes and I really love them all... FYI everyone knows about the blue box notes being extensive but Mike Matessino's notes on Fiddler are SO full of detail it's crazy, they are worth a read to get a complete snapshot of that time!  At this point starting to run out of places to think to look, I've got a few blogs of some journalists that I've started going through but each update to the chronology may be harder and harder.
 
Anyone with thoughts and suggestions where to look next are welcome to shoot them my way! Even if I've mentioned the sources in past updates bring them up again... maybe I missed things. 
 
Now back to combing sources

Huh and here I thought all this time Spielberg’s album notes in Empire of the Sun were meant to teach us about the CD format
 

😛

Time for another Chronology update! 
 
This time we have instead of  the under 300 updates I mentioned in my last post we have 416 new items added as well as updates to countless entries with new info as I've combed through several sources to narrow down some dates and expand on descriptions. 
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing
 

 

 
Implemented suggestions
 
Several great suggestions have come in from other members' since the last version and here's what we were able to implement. 
 
Upgraded Formatting [Suggested by @Jay] This may have been mentioned before but... it was a lot of work so I'm going to mention it again... though there are some consistency changes I want to make I just need the time and to set some rules. Upgraded Concert Categories -  @Steve brought up this idea to better delineate the concerts by William's involvement type. A version 1 of that has been integrated and is part of this update Various missed items - Several members even sent me some items that didn't make the first few versions of the chronology that I've managed to add along with the new items I've been pulling from all sorts of places. Thanks to you all and keep it up!   
Sources: Where has the new content come from 
 
This update has easily been the hardest fought so far as I've combed through all of the easy sources like JWFan itself, the forum entries here and at other sites like FSM and and am now branching out and going through texts, videos etc. Here's where we've seen some of these latest updates come from.
Online News paper articles/archives - Like I mentioned in the last update - http://johnwilliams.org/ has an excellent bibliography that has been a good resource, Google's newspaper archives have been valuable the hardest part here is all of the newspaper paywalls and broken links due to sites being redone. Literally hundreds and hundreds of articles have been combed through. I knew there were a lot as I read them over the years but it's amazing how many have been written about the man when you see them all together!  Editorial Stock Image Archives - Getty images, AP image sources and other editorial image banks looking for shots of Williams at events and other things have allowed some missing dates to be filled in and many events to confirm Williams was actually there, you can see many of these shots mentioned as Press in the source links. OST & Expanded Liner Notes - As another project I have been working on for some time on, I've digitized/OCR'd all of my copies of the Williams liner notes (even the blue box which was a chore and a half) so I've been combing through those doing searches and finding tidbits of dates and time periods that can go into the chronology. A lot has been added from those as we have some great researchers and writers in the community that have put a TON of time and effort into these notes and I really love them all... FYI everyone knows about the blue box notes being extensive but Mike Matessino's notes on Fiddler are SO full of detail it's crazy, they are worth a read to get a complete snapshot of that time!  At this point starting to run out of places to think to look, I've got a few blogs of some journalists that I've started going through but each update to the chronology may be harder and harder.
 
Anyone with thoughts and suggestions where to look next are welcome to shoot them my way! Even if I've mentioned the sources in past updates bring them up again... maybe I missed things. 
 
Now back to combing sources

Time for another Chronology update! 
 
This time we have instead of  the under 300 updates I mentioned in my last post we have 416 new items added as well as updates to countless entries with new info as I've combed through several sources to narrow down some dates and expand on descriptions. 
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing
 

 

 
Implemented suggestions
 
Several great suggestions have come in from other members' since the last version and here's what we were able to implement. 
 
Upgraded Formatting [Suggested by @Jay] This may have been mentioned before but... it was a lot of work so I'm going to mention it again... though there are some consistency changes I want to make I just need the time and to set some rules. Upgraded Concert Categories -  @Steve brought up this idea to better delineate the concerts by William's involvement type. A version 1 of that has been integrated and is part of this update Various missed items - Several members even sent me some items that didn't make the first few versions of the chronology that I've managed to add along with the new items I've been pulling from all sorts of places. Thanks to you all and keep it up!   
Sources: Where has the new content come from 
 
This update has easily been the hardest fought so far as I've combed through all of the easy sources like JWFan itself, the forum entries here and at other sites like FSM and and am now branching out and going through texts, videos etc. Here's where we've seen some of these latest updates come from.
Online News paper articles/archives - Like I mentioned in the last update - http://johnwilliams.org/ has an excellent bibliography that has been a good resource, Google's newspaper archives have been valuable the hardest part here is all of the newspaper paywalls and broken links due to sites being redone. Literally hundreds and hundreds of articles have been combed through. I knew there were a lot as I read them over the years but it's amazing how many have been written about the man when you see them all together!  Editorial Stock Image Archives - Getty images, AP image sources and other editorial image banks looking for shots of Williams at events and other things have allowed some missing dates to be filled in and many events to confirm Williams was actually there, you can see many of these shots mentioned as Press in the source links. OST & Expanded Liner Notes - As another project I have been working on for some time on, I've digitized/OCR'd all of my copies of the Williams liner notes (even the blue box which was a chore and a half) so I've been combing through those doing searches and finding tidbits of dates and time periods that can go into the chronology. A lot has been added from those as we have some great researchers and writers in the community that have put a TON of time and effort into these notes and I really love them all... FYI everyone knows about the blue box notes being extensive but Mike Matessino's notes on Fiddler are SO full of detail it's crazy, they are worth a read to get a complete snapshot of that time!  At this point starting to run out of places to think to look, I've got a few blogs of some journalists that I've started going through but each update to the chronology may be harder and harder.
 
Anyone with thoughts and suggestions where to look next are welcome to shoot them my way! Even if I've mentioned the sources in past updates bring them up again... maybe I missed things. 
 
Now back to combing sources

Time for another Chronology update! 
 
This time we have instead of  the under 300 updates I mentioned in my last post we have 416 new items added as well as updates to countless entries with new info as I've combed through several sources to narrow down some dates and expand on descriptions. 
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing
 

 

 
Implemented suggestions
 
Several great suggestions have come in from other members' since the last version and here's what we were able to implement. 
 
Upgraded Formatting [Suggested by @Jay] This may have been mentioned before but... it was a lot of work so I'm going to mention it again... though there are some consistency changes I want to make I just need the time and to set some rules. Upgraded Concert Categories -  @Steve brought up this idea to better delineate the concerts by William's involvement type. A version 1 of that has been integrated and is part of this update Various missed items - Several members even sent me some items that didn't make the first few versions of the chronology that I've managed to add along with the new items I've been pulling from all sorts of places. Thanks to you all and keep it up!   
Sources: Where has the new content come from 
 
This update has easily been the hardest fought so far as I've combed through all of the easy sources like JWFan itself, the forum entries here and at other sites like FSM and and am now branching out and going through texts, videos etc. Here's where we've seen some of these latest updates come from.
Online News paper articles/archives - Like I mentioned in the last update - http://johnwilliams.org/ has an excellent bibliography that has been a good resource, Google's newspaper archives have been valuable the hardest part here is all of the newspaper paywalls and broken links due to sites being redone. Literally hundreds and hundreds of articles have been combed through. I knew there were a lot as I read them over the years but it's amazing how many have been written about the man when you see them all together!  Editorial Stock Image Archives - Getty images, AP image sources and other editorial image banks looking for shots of Williams at events and other things have allowed some missing dates to be filled in and many events to confirm Williams was actually there, you can see many of these shots mentioned as Press in the source links. OST & Expanded Liner Notes - As another project I have been working on for some time on, I've digitized/OCR'd all of my copies of the Williams liner notes (even the blue box which was a chore and a half) so I've been combing through those doing searches and finding tidbits of dates and time periods that can go into the chronology. A lot has been added from those as we have some great researchers and writers in the community that have put a TON of time and effort into these notes and I really love them all... FYI everyone knows about the blue box notes being extensive but Mike Matessino's notes on Fiddler are SO full of detail it's crazy, they are worth a read to get a complete snapshot of that time!  At this point starting to run out of places to think to look, I've got a few blogs of some journalists that I've started going through but each update to the chronology may be harder and harder.
 
Anyone with thoughts and suggestions where to look next are welcome to shoot them my way! Even if I've mentioned the sources in past updates bring them up again... maybe I missed things. 
 
Now back to combing sources

Huh and here I thought all this time Spielberg’s album notes in Empire of the Sun were meant to teach us about the CD format
 

😛

For anyone interested/hasn't seen it yet, here is the Beacon article @Thor was referring to. 
 

 
 

Huh and here I thought all this time Spielberg’s album notes in Empire of the Sun were meant to teach us about the CD format
 

😛

Huh and here I thought all this time Spielberg’s album notes in Empire of the Sun were meant to teach us about the CD format
 

😛

Sorry to bring up an old post, but I just got a copy of the original 1987 program of JW’s concerts in Japan!
 
Not in the greatest condition but fascinating all the same.
 
Also found this amusing article about JW’s time in Japan over 30 years ago:
 
https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14580929
 
Guide to pics:
 
1. Cover
2. Inside page - not a real signature!
3. Program A
4. Full page ad for the actual TV broadcast!
5. Mini pamphlet tucked inside by the previous owner (thank you!). You can see where he folded it
6. Inside the pamphlet

Huh and here I thought all this time Spielberg’s album notes in Empire of the Sun were meant to teach us about the CD format
 

😛

Thanks @Chen G.
 
I've actually started trying to gather those... I have an upcoming update that should add just under 300 new entries to the chronology, including some events/concerts he's attended. I've been going through as many old articles as I can find, http://johnwilliams.org/ has an excellent bibliography that has been a good resource (Google's newspaper archives have been valuable), as well as I've gone through Getty images, AP image sources and other editorial image banks looking for shots of Williams at events etc.
 
If anyone knows of some other sources I'm happy to go through them too! 

Huh and here I thought all this time Spielberg’s album notes in Empire of the Sun were meant to teach us about the CD format
 

😛