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Wait a second... Not to hijack here but @Jay I could hug you right now... not sure why I didn't think to look here before but this is the first time I've seen concrete dates for the prequel trilogy recording dates! It's always been vague mentions of the week of such and such. Or one date on a photo. Maybe I'm just slow but yeah thanks for that! EDIT: To be clear I've been given the dates For Ep 1 & 2 before but this is the first time I think I've had a source beyond a tip from someone.

Did we know this was up for pre order on Amazon now??

I must say at first I was a little dubious but now that we know that 1. Mike was involved, that means this was taken seriously and 2. there is going to be a physical Intrada release I'm so on board now! Not that anyone cares LOL

And with one little article so many updates to the Chronology are now to come!!!! Wow @Maestro with just these articles you are setting the stage for quite the book!

Listening to the radio stream. Thanks @aj_vader! Wow I really enjoyed that performance from Dracula!

Ugh! This week's Behind the Moon AGAIN makes me even more impatient for this book Thanks so much @Maestro for doing these! Sir the amount of research and care you've put into this... amazing! Just this weeks edition alone on some of the early years makes me so excited to dig into and update/correct aspects of the Chronology project!

Like so many of us, my first John Williams score on CD was also the first score I ever owned on CD. That score, of course, was from the original Star Wars trilogy... sort of. It was 1997. I was in Grade 10 and already a huge lover of film and TV scores. For years, I’d been recording the main and end titles from shows and VHS tapes onto cassettes, listening to them endlessly on my Walkman. I’d wear out those tapes with favorites like Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Wars, Back to the Future, and many more. Back then, I didn’t know the names of the composers. Looking back, I must have been some kind of idiot — it never even occurred to me that this music was available to buy. I genuinely thought I was the only person in the world who cared about this stuff. Besides, how would you even get the music without all the sound effects from the movies? :FACEPALM: Poor Atlantic Canadian kid — I had a lot to learn. Wait… Did They Use What I Think They Did? If you’ve already peeked at the image below, the cat’s out of the bag: I was a huge LucasArts fan. I loved flying X-Wings and TIE Fighters and solving the secrets of Monkey Island. So again it’s 1997 and X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter had just come out. I installed it the day it launched. As soon as that first X-Wing hit the screen and I started playing, something hit me: Hey... that’s the actual Star Wars music — like from the real movies!? Yes, It was slightly out of order, sure, but it was the real deal. More importantly, it didn’t have movie sound effects layered over it. Just pure music! That was mind-blowing. I didn’t understand how that was even possible. My teenage brain couldn’t get over How did they untangle the music from the effects!? Out of curiosity, I threw the multiplayer disc into the family CD player — and boom! The stereo kicked in, and suddenly I was hearing Star Wars music coming from the speakers. No dialogue. No sound effects. Just pure score, albeit with odd edits and a very strange stereo mix. From that day on, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter didn’t live with my PC games anymore. It joined my film score tapes. And I slowly started to piece it together: Of course this stuff was recorded separately. Of course it existed somewhere. That CD was played for months on the family stereo. I listened so much, I knew the edits of the 27+ minute battle suite better than I knew the actual film cue edits. Eventually, my parents took pity on me — or maybe they just needed me to stop. Either way, a trip to Sam the Record Man was in order. The First Real CD – “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” That’s where I got my first real CD album: The Lost World: Jurassic Park. At the time, it was the only John Williams score available at the store that wasn’t a “song track” or a compilation of stuff I already had on “tape”. I knew John Williams’ name by then, he was the Star Wars guy — so I picked it up, brought it home, and set up that little diorama quasi-digipack beside my X-Wing disc and my cassette tapes. I hit play, expecting that soaring, brassy Star Wars sound. But instead... What on earth was this? Dark, menacing percussion? Complex rhythms? Where were the fanfares!? It took a few days, but I fell in love. Hooked. Obsessed. This CD too was played to the point where my parents were once again ready to have me committed to an asylum but it was too late. So much so that when my high school English teacher assigned a project where we had to pick a music track that described a scene from a novel, I proudly brought in Track 7 — “Rescuing Sarah.” This was something different from the rest of the class and their Boys II Men or Mariah Carey. The room went quiet. My girlfriend at the time didn’t know what to say and even the teacher was baffled. Her rather confused, Ok thanks Jeremy that was interesting, ok who’s next? Didn’t phase me. I was now a film score JW fan for life. The Collection Grew… One Record Club Scam at a Time Shortly after that, my parents joined the biggest scam/trap in the music industry… The Columbia House Record Club, like so many other North American households in the '90s. I suspect this was another act of self-preservation on their part. As part of the deal, they let me pick some of the free CDs in the first batch. After 4-6 weeks for delivery my collection grew! Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, By Request, and all three Star Wars Special Editions joined my fledgling collection. They may have been locked into buying overpriced CDs for years, but honestly? I’m kind of glad they fell for it. That record club helped launch my collection — and my obsession. As the advent of the internet started to open my eyes not too long after a little site called Star Wars Episode One: The Music came around I suddenly realized I wasn’t the only one who like this stuff. I wasn't “lyrically challenged” as my friends and family called me in high school. These were called film scores and there were many fans before me and hopefully there will be many after us all. So here’s to the Maestro and his impact on all of us, though most of us will never get to thank him in person and he may never know the impact he’s had on us, Hundreds of CD's later I’m grateful that we’ve gotten to reap the rewards of his gifts and have this community all these years later.

@Jay always find it amazing, we probably only live like ~5 or so hours away but because of the border (mine shipped Thursday as well) Mine is still in LA and won't be here for at least another week. Customs, who's idea was that anyway LOL Glad you have yours enjoy! Thanks for the photos as well... it looks good!

@Jay just a quick heads up your society of the snow link in the main post goes to a Live and Let Die sheet instead of the right one.

Yeah as @Jay quoted MV once back in 2013 when asked if someone should buy the 95 release "Buy it. It's a rights mess. May not happen for awhile MV" - Source I guess "awhile" has passed, the stars have aligned and many people have done some crazy work and it's finally here!

YES!!!! I have put off buying the other releases for YEARS hoping for this!

absolutely I’m hoping the same!!

For those interested, I pushed around another 180 new entries to the chronology Mostly in the 50's and 60's trying to fill in some of the albums Williams played on or orchestrated etc. @Bespin Copilot Discography was invaluable as a starting point to start looking some data up on them... Of course and as usual I'm not done yet but a good update none the less. Amazing how hard it is to find release dates for a lot of these old albums. There's a lot of 1956/?? kind of things going on. I'm kinda glad I kept the older versions of this as tabs as it's fun to go back to ver 0.1 and see how simple it was to start with.

I thought about this and I've even tried it ..... ONCE and only ONCE! At one time I took all of the OST's that were usurped by their newer shinier brethren, everything from all my favorite JW albums, JG albums, Medal of Honor osts (man I still love that box set!) I took photos of them all was about to put them online when my daughter who was like 5 at the time asked if she could have them... I melted like ice cream in summer and put them in a box for her when she got older. Now she's 15 and doesn't care one lick so a couple of years ago I re-intergrated them all back in the collection and I must say I'm so happy I did. HOW could I EVER think of getting rid of them!