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    Falstaft got a reaction from Ricard in JWFan turns 25!   
    Here's to you, @Ricard! The importance of this site and this forum, to me and so many others, is hard to overstate. 
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    Falstaft got a reaction from BrotherSound in JWFan turns 25!   
    Here's to you, @Ricard! The importance of this site and this forum, to me and so many others, is hard to overstate. 
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    Falstaft got a reaction from BB-8 in JWFan turns 25!   
    Here's to you, @Ricard! The importance of this site and this forum, to me and so many others, is hard to overstate. 
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    Falstaft got a reaction from Loert in JWFan turns 25!   
    Here's to you, @Ricard! The importance of this site and this forum, to me and so many others, is hard to overstate. 
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    Falstaft got a reaction from Tallguy in JWFan turns 25!   
    Here's to you, @Ricard! The importance of this site and this forum, to me and so many others, is hard to overstate. 
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    Falstaft got a reaction from KittBash in JWFan turns 25!   
    Here's to you, @Ricard! The importance of this site and this forum, to me and so many others, is hard to overstate. 
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    Falstaft reacted to KittBash in JWFan turns 25!   
    WOW! Time really has flown.
     
    I remember finding the Episode 1 The music when I was in High school in 1999 on my Pentium 133 with a 56k modem and having to set the machine up overnight to download the mp3 pieces that the site was offering as we slowly pieced together the score! It was magic as the site got its own forums and I remember always being a little bummed as I couldn't go to the live chats due to the time difference. 
    Fast forward and now my daughter is only 2 years younger then I was back then and I'm still visiting the site just about everyday! 
     
    Thanks to @Ricard @Jay @Andreas and everyone else who have made this site what it is over the years!
    Honestly If it takes 30-60 days builds to build a habit then visiting this site is engrained in my being at this point. 
     
    On a side note I wondering how many of us with the old "may 2002" accounts are still around these days?
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    Falstaft reacted to Manakin Skywalker in JWFan turns 25!   
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    Falstaft reacted to GlastoEls in JWFan turns 25!   
    Massive congrats on what is genuinely a fabulous resource and such a well natured place. 

    I myself have made real life friends from the site and met up with Williams nerds in Milan, Vienna, Berlin, and closer to home in London. 
     
    Here’s to the next 25!
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    Falstaft reacted to Jeff in JWFan turns 25!   
    I just saw the "25 years" story posted on JWFan's Twitter and thought I would drop in to say hi. I used to be active on the forum about 12 years ago. I just checked my profile and my last post was just a few days before my first child was born.   Needless to say I was busy for a little while and never made it back here, other than to do research once or twice.
     
    Anyway, congrats on 25 years and maybe I'll dip my toe back into the forum a bit ...
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    Falstaft reacted to The Five Tones in JWFan turns 25!   
    Congratulations, Ricard! You all deserve to celebrate. I've been coming here since 2000 (not as much as I'd like in recent years, though) and it's impressive how the site has developed as the hub for a vast, interconnected community but also as the definitive resource for all things John Towner Williams. As the nearly 92 year old maestro might say, long may you reign!
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    Falstaft reacted to Edmilson in JWFan turns 25!   
    LLL and Intrada should create exclusive discounts for JWFan users 
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    Falstaft reacted to Ricard in JWFan turns 25!   
    JWFan was born 25 years ago today! 
     
    Hard to imagine back then that the site would still be up and running two and a half decades later, let alone that the Maestro would still be active after having composed nearly thirty more film scores and a similar number of concert works, as well as conducting over 200 concerts including Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Japan!
     
    Dozens of his film scores have received perfect releases during all this time, providing fans with the confidence that many more will come in the future, while maintaining and further enhancing the collective appreciation and admiration for the music we all love and which will remain with us for the rest of our lives.
     
    The analysis and discussion of his work has reached such level of comprehensiveness and detail, that our forums have become an essential reference for fans and scholars, while fomenting the creation of fascinating projects that expand and deepen the study of the Maestro’s oeuvre and contribute to increasing its appreciation by future generations who, without doubt, will continue to ensure that his name is in the place it deserves in the history of music and cinema.
     
    Thank you, Mr. Williams, and thanks to all those who have contributed during this time to make the site such a wonderful place. Here’s to 25 more!
     
    PS. The following quoted post, written for this thread 10 years ago, provides a short summary of the origins of the site:
     
     
     
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    Falstaft got a reaction from Remco in New Interview with John Williams reflects on the beginnings of his career, a lifetime in music, and his love for orchestras.   
    It's really great, isn't it? I know enough about Williams's style of interviewing that a) his responses are often a little rehearsed and massaged and b) this one really does capture his incredible autobiographical memory and poetic sensibility towards his life and art. 
     
    Also, I didn't know he remembered that the SW opening title initially began with that tiny run up! Who else remembers first listening to the "secret" track on the ANH Special Edition in 97 and just being blown away?!
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    Falstaft got a reaction from That_Bloke in New Interview with John Williams reflects on the beginnings of his career, a lifetime in music, and his love for orchestras.   
    It's really great, isn't it? I know enough about Williams's style of interviewing that a) his responses are often a little rehearsed and massaged and b) this one really does capture his incredible autobiographical memory and poetic sensibility towards his life and art. 
     
    Also, I didn't know he remembered that the SW opening title initially began with that tiny run up! Who else remembers first listening to the "secret" track on the ANH Special Edition in 97 and just being blown away?!
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    Falstaft got a reaction from Arnaud2 in New Interview with John Williams reflects on the beginnings of his career, a lifetime in music, and his love for orchestras.   
    It's really great, isn't it? I know enough about Williams's style of interviewing that a) his responses are often a little rehearsed and massaged and b) this one really does capture his incredible autobiographical memory and poetic sensibility towards his life and art. 
     
    Also, I didn't know he remembered that the SW opening title initially began with that tiny run up! Who else remembers first listening to the "secret" track on the ANH Special Edition in 97 and just being blown away?!
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    Falstaft got a reaction from aviazn in New Interview with John Williams reflects on the beginnings of his career, a lifetime in music, and his love for orchestras.   
    It's really great, isn't it? I know enough about Williams's style of interviewing that a) his responses are often a little rehearsed and massaged and b) this one really does capture his incredible autobiographical memory and poetic sensibility towards his life and art. 
     
    Also, I didn't know he remembered that the SW opening title initially began with that tiny run up! Who else remembers first listening to the "secret" track on the ANH Special Edition in 97 and just being blown away?!
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    Falstaft reacted to Edmilson in New Interview with John Williams reflects on the beginnings of his career, a lifetime in music, and his love for orchestras.   
    I loved this part. John Williams never ceases to amaze me:
     
    And this too:
    And I love the fact that JW helps raising money for orchestras because he feels indebted to them, that without the musicians that perform his music it would just be, as he puts it, "dots on a paper".
     
    Truly a marvelous human being.
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    Falstaft got a reaction from Andy in New Interview with John Williams reflects on the beginnings of his career, a lifetime in music, and his love for orchestras.   
    It's really great, isn't it? I know enough about Williams's style of interviewing that a) his responses are often a little rehearsed and massaged and b) this one really does capture his incredible autobiographical memory and poetic sensibility towards his life and art. 
     
    Also, I didn't know he remembered that the SW opening title initially began with that tiny run up! Who else remembers first listening to the "secret" track on the ANH Special Edition in 97 and just being blown away?!
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    Falstaft reacted to fuhrsy31 in Tatoo with John reference   
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    Falstaft got a reaction from ConorPower in New Interview with John Williams reflects on the beginnings of his career, a lifetime in music, and his love for orchestras.   
    It's really great, isn't it? I know enough about Williams's style of interviewing that a) his responses are often a little rehearsed and massaged and b) this one really does capture his incredible autobiographical memory and poetic sensibility towards his life and art. 
     
    Also, I didn't know he remembered that the SW opening title initially began with that tiny run up! Who else remembers first listening to the "secret" track on the ANH Special Edition in 97 and just being blown away?!
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    Falstaft got a reaction from MaxTheHouseelf in New Interview with John Williams reflects on the beginnings of his career, a lifetime in music, and his love for orchestras.   
    It's really great, isn't it? I know enough about Williams's style of interviewing that a) his responses are often a little rehearsed and massaged and b) this one really does capture his incredible autobiographical memory and poetic sensibility towards his life and art. 
     
    Also, I didn't know he remembered that the SW opening title initially began with that tiny run up! Who else remembers first listening to the "secret" track on the ANH Special Edition in 97 and just being blown away?!
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    Falstaft got a reaction from Taikomochi in New Interview with John Williams reflects on the beginnings of his career, a lifetime in music, and his love for orchestras.   
    It's really great, isn't it? I know enough about Williams's style of interviewing that a) his responses are often a little rehearsed and massaged and b) this one really does capture his incredible autobiographical memory and poetic sensibility towards his life and art. 
     
    Also, I didn't know he remembered that the SW opening title initially began with that tiny run up! Who else remembers first listening to the "secret" track on the ANH Special Edition in 97 and just being blown away?!
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    Falstaft got a reaction from igger6 in New Interview with John Williams reflects on the beginnings of his career, a lifetime in music, and his love for orchestras.   
    It's really great, isn't it? I know enough about Williams's style of interviewing that a) his responses are often a little rehearsed and massaged and b) this one really does capture his incredible autobiographical memory and poetic sensibility towards his life and art. 
     
    Also, I didn't know he remembered that the SW opening title initially began with that tiny run up! Who else remembers first listening to the "secret" track on the ANH Special Edition in 97 and just being blown away?!
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    Falstaft got a reaction from enderdrag64 in New Interview with John Williams reflects on the beginnings of his career, a lifetime in music, and his love for orchestras.   
    It's really great, isn't it? I know enough about Williams's style of interviewing that a) his responses are often a little rehearsed and massaged and b) this one really does capture his incredible autobiographical memory and poetic sensibility towards his life and art. 
     
    Also, I didn't know he remembered that the SW opening title initially began with that tiny run up! Who else remembers first listening to the "secret" track on the ANH Special Edition in 97 and just being blown away?!
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