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If they’d included Crystal Skull, they’ll have had to include Dial of Destiny as well, and the resulting irony levels would have asphyxiated everyone in the building. You’ve got to look after your staff.

I have altered the quote, pray I don't alter it any further.

If they’d included Crystal Skull, they’ll have had to include Dial of Destiny as well, and the resulting irony levels would have asphyxiated everyone in the building. You’ve got to look after your staff.

What do you mean nobody knew?
 
Deck officer?  Deck officer!

Is the irony lost on anyone else that Disney are going to the trouble of reissuing the original trilogy on CD, after making the latest score available on CD for barely a few hours?

oh for FUCK'S SAKE COME ON

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

‘You Americans. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.’

Just to mention a tiny transition in ESB’s end titles which I do like: the two extra bars at the end of the Imperial March just before Han and the Princess takes off. Lovely.
 
I’d also like to put on record my grumpiness at the way the original recordings were butchered in 1997 to make up for the SE credits. Jarring and unpleasant.
 
Mark

Just to mention a tiny transition in ESB’s end titles which I do like: the two extra bars at the end of the Imperial March just before Han and the Princess takes off. Lovely.
 
I’d also like to put on record my grumpiness at the way the original recordings were butchered in 1997 to make up for the SE credits. Jarring and unpleasant.
 
Mark

Just to mention a tiny transition in ESB’s end titles which I do like: the two extra bars at the end of the Imperial March just before Han and the Princess takes off. Lovely.
 
I’d also like to put on record my grumpiness at the way the original recordings were butchered in 1997 to make up for the SE credits. Jarring and unpleasant.
 
Mark

‘You Americans. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.’

‘You Americans. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.’

‘You Americans. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.’

‘You Americans. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.’

‘You Americans. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.’

‘You Americans. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.’

‘You Americans. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.’

Damn, can’t quite place it, but I do recognise that beautifully bluesy #5/maj7 combination.

Oh, and:
 
Call of the Champions: Tracks 2-12, 14: recorded at Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, 1999/12/9 + 10 and 2000/06/19 + 20.
Tracks 1 & 13: recorded 2001/11/27 at Maurice Abravanel Hall, Salt Lake City
 
 

From liner notes to the 2006 compilation Jazz Beginnings:

JW: "That's a funny-looking instrument you are sporting between your legs, Yo-Yo!"
SO: "It's a Limoncello, Ennio!"

We are going to need a bigger towel.  

SO: I've just come from the hot spring bath. You're going to love it, John, but here in Japan you can only wear a small towel to cover your conductor's baton!
 

When you do a promo video for Deutsche Grammophon, be prepared to say "Deutsche Grammophone" a lot, because Deutsche Grammophon want you to say Deutsche Grammophon at least twice in every sentence written by Deutsche Grammophon's promo department. I told them they should get some other composers to say "Deutsche Grammophon" a few times, and they said they knew, but they're all dead.
 

…Deutsche Grammophon…Deutsche Grammophon…Deutsche Grammophon…
 

…DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON!