HOOK (1991) - NEW! 2023 3-CD Ultimate Edition Produced, Edited, and Mastered by Mike Matessino featuring all Williams/Bricusse songs

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

2 hours ago, rough cut said:

Yes and no.

 

Both will arrive around the same time then 😜

 

Start with the hook reviews already!

[Bayesian 1,364]

On 03/12/2023 at 8:47 AM, JohnnyD said:

I’m a little concerned because, though the order status updated to “Awaiting Shipment,” I have not gotten an email yet saying it has shipped, that LLL employee has sent a package. I did order it on Black Friday around 11 AM EST. I hope I get a notification by this week.

Well, you could be in my position, whereby my status says "shipped," but the tracking info says USPS is still awaiting the item. It's been like that for me for three days now.

 

LLL are obviously swamped right now and working diligently to get these orders out, so I hope mine can get boxed up today. I'm really eager to try out the Disc 3 listening experience.

[Tydirium 1,167]

Just got an update email from LLL… for a different order that I placed almost a week after my Hook-Mask-Sneakers order. 😩 Lol

[rough cut 1,714]

1 hour ago, Luke Skywalker said:

Both will arrive around the same time then 😜

Yes, exactly.

[Dr. Rick 1,157]

 

[Jay 37,373]

I created a new thread so people can discuss the music without being mixed up with shipping updates.

 

Here it is.

 

By all means, keep the shipment update talk coming here though!

[Brando 1,864]

Well, I received the 2 scores I ordered, but it was whisked away before I could even take a picture of it, so I'll have to wait for Christmas to listen to it, but I look forward to reading everyone's discussions and will gladly join in after I've listened to it fully.

[Faleel 5,359]

[Tydirium 1,167]

Shipped by Employee2!!! 😀

[Manakin Skywalker 4,897]

Got mine in the mail today! 

[JohnnyD 1,223]

Still "Awaiting Shipment." No email update since November 30th... What do I do?

[Jurassic Shark 12,086]

Cancel it and order a CD from Varese Sarabande instead. Oh wait, theyre moving all their inventory, causing up to six weeks shipping delays!

[Tydirium 1,167]

12 minutes ago, JohnnyD said:

Still "Awaiting Shipment." No email update since November 30th... What do I do?

 

I’d give it a few more days; mine was “Awaiting Shipment” from Nov 27th until it finally shipped today. I wouldn’t worry.

[Faleel 5,359]

[JohnnyD 1,223]

19 minutes ago, Tydirium said:

 

I’d give it a few more days; mine was “Awaiting Shipment” from Nov 27th until it finally shipped today. I wouldn’t worry.

Thanks.

[HunterTech 994]

How does one get the 1425x1425 copy of the main cover art again?

[Tydirium 1,167]

1 minute ago, HunterTech said:

How does one get the 1425x1425 copy of the main cover art again?

 

Not sure exactly how big this is, but it’s big:

 

https://johndadlez.com/pix/HookHiRes.jpg

[crumbs 14,318]

On 03/12/2023 at 3:23 AM, JohnnyD said:

My order updated to "Awaiting shipment" November 30th. Status has not changed yet. Is that normal?

 

On 04/12/2023 at 3:47 AM, JohnnyD said:

I’m a little concerned because, though the order status updated to “Awaiting Shipment,” I have not gotten an email yet saying it has shipped, that LLL employee has sent a package.

 

54 minutes ago, JohnnyD said:

Still "Awaiting Shipment." No email update since November 30th... What do I do?

 

I dunno why you're getting so anxious about it. Their website clearly states "Expect up to 10 business days from the date you place your order for it to ship." It's been 3 business days since they even got stock.

 

You could always fly to their office and help them pack the (likely) thousands of orders they're swamped with, I'm sure they'd appreciate the help.

 

Or spare a thought for international buyers, who paid over 3 times as much for their shipping but many are unlikely to even receive their order before Christmas.

[blondheim 1,157]

So listen to this: I get home and Hook isn’t here. The postal workers have been here and dropped off other things but not Hook. The tracker says it’s still Out For Delivery and will be here by 9:00pm. However I’m worried as a postal worker has clearly already been here.

 

So I’m a reeeeeeally anxious little ball of stress all of a sudden. All that anticipation and hype just sank a deep pit into my stomach. I have to hope it arrives via another carrier by nine. Otherwise I’m gonna be worried it was stolen etc. until tmrw, hoping it arrives then. And on and on it goes but I digress/am catastrophizing.

 

I haven’t had a problem with anything being delivered here so far. I just got Solo the other day for example. But this is a new place I’ve just moved into.

 

Stress.

Stress.

Stress.

Stress.

Stress.

 

[Faleel 5,359]

Once, I had a book I ordered arrive by the post hours later than the usual delivery time, after they had already delivered earlier in the day.

[Bayesian 1,364]

1 hour ago, blondheim said:

So listen to this: I get home and Hook isn’t here. The postal workers have been here and dropped off other things but not Hook. The tracker says it’s still Out For Delivery and will be here by 9:00pm. However I’m worried as a postal worker has clearly already been here.

 

So I’m a reeeeeeally anxious little ball of stress all of a sudden. All that anticipation and hype just sank a deep pit into my stomach. I have to hope it arrives via another carrier by nine. Otherwise I’m gonna be worried it was stolen etc. until tmrw, hoping it arrives then. And on and on it goes but I digress/am catastrophizing.

 

I haven’t had a problem with anything being delivered here so far. I just got Solo the other day for example. But this is a new place I’ve just moved into.

 

Stress.

Stress.

Stress.

Stress.

Stress.

 

Don’t stress! (Even though I’d stress just the same as you if it were me.) If it says out for delivery, it hasn’t been scanned at the dropoff point (your mailbox). It’s still on a truck somewhere. And now that you’re home, you’ll be there when the guy does finally show.

 

[A. A. Ron 1,742]

2 hours ago, blondheim said:

So listen to this: I get home and Hook isn’t here. The postal workers have been here and dropped off other things but not Hook. The tracker says it’s still Out For Delivery and will be here by 9:00pm. However I’m worried as a postal worker has clearly already been here.

Former postal worker here — There are so many packages going out in the month of December that it’s not at all uncommon for carriers to split routes or take the packages off of someone else’s route in order to help them get done faster. Hopefully that’s all that’s going on.

[blondheim 1,157]

Not here yet 😬

 

I do believe in fairies, I do believe in fairies…

 

*claps*

 

 

[Amer 2,116]

I had an exception message from my USPS Tracking info and a few hours later it indicated that it was slowly moving ...??

 

Anyways its back in Transit. 

 

Whew!!

[cptgame446 11]

So, is there a way to get a digital copy of this?  I ordered it from lalaland, and it just shipped. I'm very excited. But I realized I literally have no cd player anymore. Lol. My PC doesn't have one anymore, and I have no stereo. My only cd player is in my car. How the hell am I going to listen to this thing?

[Jay 37,373]

No, La-La Land is not granted a license to release it digitally, and Sony Pictures can't release it themselves either because Sony Music has phonographic rights.

 

If you have a DVD/Blu Ray player, you can listen on that in addition to your car. Also, you can purchase a USB or USB-C DVD/BD drive for your PC and use that to rip it (and future music CD purchases) into files.

[blondheim 1,157]

Still not here. Tracking information still says the same thing out for delivery, expected by 9pm. Idk what to do now except bite my nails until I wake up tomorrow and then stress wait some more? Ugh. This is the worst.

 

[Bayesian 1,364]

8 minutes ago, blondheim said:

Still not here. Tracking information still says the same thing out for delivery, expected by 9pm. Idk what to do now except bite my nails until I wake up tomorrow and then stress wait some more? Ugh. This is the worst.

 

I've had this happen before. It'll arrive tomorrow. It's on the truck and hasn't been scanned at your house, so unless someone carjacks the mail truck overnight, you'll get it tomorrow.

[A. A. Ron 1,742]

It won't sit in the truck overnight. It'll get wheeled back inside where no one can get to it.

[Brando 1,864]

56 minutes ago, cptgame446 said:

So, is there a way to get a digital copy of this?  I ordered it from lalaland, and it just shipped. I'm very excited. But I realized I literally have no cd player anymore. Lol. My PC doesn't have one anymore, and I have no stereo. My only cd player is in my car. How the hell am I going to listen to this thing?

You can always do what I did and buy an external disc drive, idk how much ripping you do but I do it often and this comes in handy. Plus I see a 5% coupon so you can put this on your Christmas list maybe: Yaeonku External Blu Ray CD DVD Drive, USB 3.0 Type-C 3D Bluray CD DVD Reader Slim Optical Bluray DVD Drive for MacBook Laptop Desktop PC Laptop Compatible with MACOS Windows xp/7/8/10 https://a.co/d/boKtWWS

[Dr. Know 326]

1 hour ago, blondheim said:

Still not here. Tracking information still says the same thing out for delivery, expected by 9pm. Idk what to do now except bite my nails until I wake up tomorrow and then stress wait some more? Ugh. This is the worst.

 

Same thing happened to me yesterday.  The package did get to me today.  I know it is frustrating.

[Holko 9,530]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

No, La-La Land is not granted a license to release it digitally, and Sony Pictures can't release it themselves either because Sony Music has phonographic rights.

So why can't Sony Music release it, or grant Sony Pictures the rights, or grant LLL the license

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

14 hours ago, rough cut said:

Yes, exactly.

Well i meant that solo will arrive to music box around the same time their first hook batch arrives. So Solo being out of stock now (with units already on the way) will not slow your hook delivery….

[bollemanneke 3,350]

Jay, when I get the set, do you recommend reading the liner notes first? Or should I listen and then read?

[Richard Penna 3,694]

5 hours ago, Holko said:

So why can't Sony Music release it, or grant Sony Pictures the rights, or grant LLL the license

 

For once I'm in full agreement with our professional nitpicker. Obviously we want LLL to carry the physical product (and there will always be more than enough fans who want the CD, regardless of digital availability) but to not put this sort of thing on digital/streaming services is really not taking advantage of current technology.

 

Same sort of argument for Jurassic, Potter, etc. It also means that if (shock horror) one didn't want an entire set, but just a few tracks, they could buy them.

[BB-8 3,482]

21 hours ago, jacksparrow900 said:

 

[bollemanneke 3,350]

32 minutes ago, Richard Penna said:

 

For once I'm in full agreement with our professional nitpicker. Obviously we want LLL to carry the physical product (and there will always be more than enough fans who want the CD, regardless of digital availability) but to not put this sort of thing on digital/streaming services is really not taking advantage of current technology.

 

Same sort of argument for Jurassic, Potter, etc. It also means that if (shock horror) one didn't want an entire set, but just a few tracks, they could buy them.

Hear hear. My friends don't understand it whenever I have to send them files and tell them they can't get Mike's presentations on Spotify. All these studios should just, once and for all, GET THEIR PAPERWORK IN ORDER AND WAKE UP TO REALITY.

[Richard Penna 3,694]

I don't even really see how it involves such a mountain of paperwork that they won't do it.

 

All sorts of crap gets put on Spotify. Quite a few stock music companies have theire entire inventory on streaming - god knows who's listening to it. If they are able to profitably do that, the studios can sure as hell do it or allow the labels to do it.

[Holko 9,530]

9 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:

Hear hear. My friends don't understand it whenever I have to send them files and tell them they can't get Mike's presentations on Spotify. All these studios should just, once and for all, GET THEIR PAPERWORK IN ORDER AND WAKE UP TO REALITY.

Though maybe we're better off. Looking at Tidal, these goddamn morons can't even tell which JW is which.

[bollemanneke 3,350]

That, or glorious track names like The Land Race (from Far and Away, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Remastered).

[blondheim 1,157]

This morning I wake up and all the electricity is out in my room. Idk if I’ve blown a fuse or a breaker or something but I have to wait until my landlord gets up for him to fix it.

 

It’s just one thing after another.

[Holko 9,530]

Or lowres covers. Or ancient warbly low quality masters of some scores.

[rough cut 1,714]

I get the frustration about expanded JW not being able to stream... On the other hand, if it were... maybe "the higher ups" would decide there'd be no need for a physical product.

 

Pick your poison. 

[1977 1,743]

1 hour ago, Richard Penna said:

 

For once I'm in full agreement with our professional nitpicker. Obviously we want LLL to carry the physical product (and there will always be more than enough fans who want the CD, regardless of digital availability) but to not put this sort of thing on digital/streaming services is really not taking advantage of current technology.

 

Same sort of argument for Jurassic, Potter, etc. It also means that if (shock horror) one didn't want an entire set, but just a few tracks, they could buy them.

 

3rd party titles hardly ever get expanded digital releases. Exceptions being things like BTTF 1 and 2 for example.

[Richard Penna 3,694]

4 minutes ago, rough cut said:

I get the frustration about expanded JW not being able to stream... On the other hand, if it were, maybe "the higher ups" would decide there'd be no need for a physical product.

 

Pick your poison. 

 

Which would be more important: all JW expansions available to stream and purchase by anyone, forever. Or a physical set available for a couple of years and then OOP.

 

Surely at least some physical collectors (not the FSM 'no CD = no sale' brigade; they're beyond help) would forego their collection in return for wider availability.

[bigjimwilson 256]

Guys. I got home and there's no Hook CD waiting for me. I can't believe it. it's really quite a stressful situation. 

 

Absolutely nothing waiting on the doorstep. 

 

I can't help but notice however that the glass in the front door is broken. Some sort of botched delivery attempt? Also, someone's utterly ruined the wallpaper in the hallway. And up the stairs. And they've pinned a note to a bedroom door with a flippin' knife of all things. This is one desperate postal thief. Very strange methods indeed. 

 

Also I'm not entirely certain where the kids are. 

 

 

[mstrox 6,651]

10 hours ago, cptgame446 said:

So, is there a way to get a digital copy of this?  I ordered it from lalaland, and it just shipped. I'm very excited. But I realized I literally have no cd player anymore. Lol. My PC doesn't have one anymore, and I have no stereo. My only cd player is in my car. How the hell am I going to listen to this thing?

You can get an external disc drive for a computer that connects to a USB port for like $20.  It’s a bit pricey if you’re going to get it just for this release, but they’re very small and you can just slide it in a drawer or closet or something until the next time you want to rip a CD.  When I recently bought a PC, I had to make sure it had the optical drive I wanted since many don’t now.

[1977 1,743]

Or perhaps ask a mate who still has a PC drive to rip it for you?

[Bespin 8,484]

@cptgame446 Send us a proof of purchase and I'm sure someone wil help you here.

[blondheim 1,157]

So now on the tracking it has a section saying Return to Sender Processed?! It doesn’t make sense. the tracking says it’s going to be delivered today but it looks like it is going backwards away from me through the previous steps.