Maglorfin

Is Michael Torke the guy who wrote Javelin, which appears on the 1996 Summon the Heroes CD?

Ditto. to Lukas.

A documentary about John Lennon, issued with the local newspaper (I'm also a huge Beatles fan ).

"I do so hate martial music."

I do participate, including this one.

For me too! :spiny: "If at first you don't succeed, Mr Wint ..." "Try, try again, Mr Kidd."

Which is your favourite Connery Bond?

I imagine he must be good at what he's doing, but IMHO, there's no place for his stuff on film music soundtracks. I listened once to the first half-minute of his remix on the PotC soundtrack and that was enough of trance music for me to last me a lifetime.

Dr. No.

If you're feeling like the Helen of Troy, don't. :spiny:

LOL To be sure - I'm extremely happy that I bought the set, which is definitely too good to be true, it's only that if the book didn't fell apart, it would've been as an icing on a cake. But of course, the book can still be read even after it has fallen apart, so if SAE won't be issuing any replacements, no big deal for me personally, though I suspect some won't be satisfied so easily.

Jesus H. Christ, those pics look dreadful! My booklet is luckily not yet in such bad condition and I hope it doesn't ever get there, but how can I be sure ... Did you consider sending those pics also to SAE? It might be a good idea so they'll see for themselves that the situation is in fact alarming ... Though judging by the numbers of defective booklet-related posts at their board, there's a good possibility that someone has sent them his/her own pics already ...

How wouldn't she, she's after all like the third female (active) member of this board after Saxbabe and JWFanGirl92.

Yes indeed.

Exactly. Wikipedia has a nice explanation here. indy4, tenor trombones also have this valve, so I guess they're almost as common as those without it. Maybe it depends on the level of proficiency on the instrument; when I think of it, two older and more experienced trombonists in our orchestra both have the trombone with this valve and one younger, who's still more of a beginner, doesn't.

So do I. Hopefully they find a satisfactory solution soon ...

Hey, don't sweat it, you're still so young, you've got plenty of time! However, do start catching up on this stuff, you'll love it and become an even bigger fan of JW (though you may find it quite difficult to rise to the level of fandom that is sometimes displayed on this board and may sometimes tend towards obsession ).

And James Horner?

In my VS account, the status of three orders which I received ages ago, is still listed as "in process", and I don't remember ever receiving an e-mail shipping confirmation from them (just an order confirmation), and until now, I've ordered 13 times from VS. The service has always been great, though I live pretty far from California, where they're based, all shipments arrived in 10-14 days max with CDs in perfect condition. So I think you can be perfectly calm, Mr. Breathmask, the postman will be stopping by with your (and mine, hopefully!) Matilda any day now.

Why not try a brass instrument? The left hand is used to essentially stabalize and hold an instrument, while all the playing and dexterity is done with the right hand. Yeah, especially for the trombone. You hold it with your left hand, move the slide with your right. Although on some trombones, the thumb of player's right hand is also used to manipulate the special valve that's located there (it can be seen on this photo right next to the mouthpiece - though it's of course not really there, it's just the perspective from which the photo was taken).

Over at the FSM's board they have a topic dedicated to the book only (a link which already fommes posted) and quite some complaints can be found there already. Looks like most people who bought the box will be wanting some kind of replacement and personally, I quite agree with the fellow that wrote the following:

OK, that seems to make sense. Hope it's true. Well, few posts later, somebody wrote:

I'd kinda understand if this happened after some months of active reading, but on the very first day ... I hope they improve this on the next box, whatever it is. BTW, how is it with the book from the first (Elmer Bernstein) box, did it suffer from the same problem?

The only weakness of the box I've managed to discover so far is the somewhat poor book binding. Although I've only managed to read first 30 or so pages of my book and handled it ever so carefully, the binding is already kind of starting to come apart. Has anybody else also experienced this?

Voted for TLC, also remembered that I have to watch that movie again after a long time.