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  1. Dear friends and fellow Star Wars fans... Please know the following A: I am a huge Star Wars fan B: I am a huge Star Wars Music fan ;} C: I think J Williams is a godlike super human ;} D: I am so happy to hear that some of my fans are as upset as me that this Disney/Lucas deal has apparently ended my career! ??? I was rcruited by Lucas to be the only in-house composer within the entire Lucas empire.... I worked my ass off and tried to deliver the best music I possbly could for these people over a period of about 20 years now, but It's been super hard to deal with all the politics and quite frankley, shortsightness of the "powers that be" over in Lucasland. All sorts of weird stuff has happened since DIsney "aquired" Star Wars and the only conclusion I can make is that some lawyers pocketed Millions whilst I recieved an insulting royalty chack for about 3 dollars 50 cents USD.... IM NOT JOKING!!!! wow. So since then, any attempt I make to even TALK to Disney or Lucas regarding the possibilities of me continued to work on these franchises has been ignored... I was even reccomended by former LucasArts composer Wilbert Rojet, to compose music for a VR project with ILM (Lucas's renowned special effects studio), but these people didn;t even have the coutesy to return my email... they simply hired someone else (Who didn;t move their entire family to Marin county to work... or anything like that_) I hate to say it, but the Darkside is alive and well in Lucasland! I don't think it's Disney that retried me... I beleive its Lucas, and I beleive the only reason is politics and lawyers (worried that my "loose" arrangment with Lucas in the past might now be a "liability" on their part. Starangly! Disney records is now suddenly into relasing some of my material to be available on Spotify etc... for the very forst time... What is funny though, is that when I talk to them, they seem to treat me like "Some Old Guy" who "used to" compose music for them...!!!! Wow. I'm not even 60 and J Williams is 90!!!! What????\ The bottom line is this: To "my" fans and any fan of Star Wars and Star Wars Music. I'm so sorry to disappoint you, but G Lucas is in the business of becoming enormously wealthy. He has many lawyers "buffering" him from people like you and me (Fans and "Assets Creators") I don't blame George, but it's likely he has never even heard my name... I also don't blame Disney ... It's Disney who reached out to me to FINALLY release my very first Star Wars game... Lucas always REFUSED. To clarify, I mean Lucas' Lawyers always refused. The Disney Lawyers, at least see the value os rerleasing my work (even if they assume I'm a "Washed up Old Guy" The weirdest part of all of this, is that my music composing skills (and orchestration/recording/mixing and producing skills are better than ever!!! ... once I understand how musch of my music Disney beleives they own, I can ask them politely again if I might possibly have my job back and be "Allowed" to continue to compose for this wonderful franchise called "Star Wars" until then... I just write music for myself that no-one will ever hear but me and few close friends... IT"S FRICKEN awesome BTW!!!! ;} Again thanks so much and I apologize, because I really have just about zero control over my own career M G
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