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aj_vader

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  1. OMG! It's real!!! https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/348366007074046-star-wars-john-williams-original-handwritten-music-manuscript-for-the-opening-star-wars-main-title-theme
  2. Happy Birthday JWFAN! I joined back in May 2002. I remember talking about Wlliams' Scores (Mainly Star Wars Music) with people from school and everyone thought I was insane. I came onto JWFAN where people understood and we're more accepting... a place where we could all be insane together! Thank you everyone 🙏
  3. There were new recordings made of the Star Wars music (1-6) using the London Symphony Orchestra in Abbey Road Studio 1 in 2013, conducted by William Ross. Confirmed what was recorded in this article: https://www.endorexpress.net/parks/disneyparks/tokyo-disneyland/2013/07/williamross/ Highlights; "We created a kind of 40 minute “suite” of music from the 6 films. We ran it by John Williams and got his approval." - William Ross "It would be great to be able to hear this music somehow on CD or something…" - Interviewer Ross' reply, "I think that would be wonderful. It’s a beautifully recorded piece of music…Abbey Road, the London Symphony Orchestra playing that iconic music! The Star Wars music is in their DNA and they were very happy with it. I think there’s a wonderful degree of integrity to the music and personally believe it would make a wonderful CD…but who knows." So the question is, where the hell is the audio for this and can we have it!!!? You can hear a little of The Imperial March in this phone video at the beggining (It sounds so fresh!!!)
  4. 1. Star Wars LLL 2. Indiana Jones LLL 3. Catch Me If You Can LLL 4. Spider-man 2 LLL 5. Spider-man 3 LLL
  5. "Your story is ground zero nerd love." Yeah I think the anthology boxset was £99.99 in HMV. It took me a while to save up for the special edition sets as well, however they seemed to be more mainstream and appeared in far more stores than the anthology set did. I didn't have the internet at that point, stumbling on releases was really my only way of finding these things out, we had the internet at school but it had filters for anything that wasn't related to the lessons. When I stumbled on the Empire SE set in HMV it was in one of those empty cases with a blue card saying Empire Strikes Back Special Edition blah blah ask at the counter. I asked to see it and I remember my eye's widening at the track list for Disc One Track 4, "Aboard The Executor", I thought this is it! the film version of the march at last! Nope! . I begged my Mother to buy it but it was £49.99! I had no chance. That was the leather non plastic version.
  6. This is amazing reading everyone's wholesome stories around this boxset. I was 6 years old when I got this set in 1993, I had to wait until I got enough money from Family Christmas cards to be able to buy it from HMV. I vividly remember going home on the bus after getting it and I was physically shaking with excitement and anticipation on the journey home, which would have only been around an hour at the most, but felt like an eternity, especially at that age. I think it's still the most excited I've ever been with a soundtrack release, the special editions were close but just didn't have the same kind of energy for some reason. I didn't even have all the OST's before I had the anthology, I never found them in record stores. The only Star Wars music I had before the anthology was Varèse Sarabande's Star Wars Trilogy released in 1990. When I got home I remember putting in disc two first and skipping to all the statements of the Imperial March 😂. At that point I hadn't heard the OST's at all and only had the original versions of the films on VHS. So when it got the end of the Magic Tree and Yoda and The Force those huge Imperial March statements blew my head off! (For clarification the original film version just tracked the ostinato from the film take recording of the Imperial Fleet, clunky edit as well). Oh the magic 🙏 it was so special.
  7. I know there will be a number of you bored of hearing The Imperial March at every concert... BUT NOT ME!!! 🤩 I'd trade it for the Battle of Hoth though, imagine that live (without the bombardment of sound effects). ❤️
  8. I had the same thing, it still says "Awaiting Shipment". I just got a "Shipped" confirmation! (Order Hook and Sneakers). I'm in the UK so probably going to be a few weeks. Probably lucky if I get it before Christmas , it took 7 weeks to get the Intrada Solo Deluxe on CD, customs .
  9. Can't wait to order Star Wars in the morning 🤩
  10. It's of course going to crash. It's Star Wars, it's bound to happen!
  11. The Williams title is Star Wars, I just know it.
  12. This mirage is present in my mind every month it comes round and it hurts more every time that flyer drops. I know I am responsible for my own misery 😭, but the want is so strong!
  13. Theres a few not opened actually, Lost World, Hot Fuzz, Godfather etc. Not got round to listening to them all yet.
  14. With Doug posting something, could it be The Hobbit Complete Recordings and Book? That would have started around 10 years ago??
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