Kevin,

	Sorry to keep an off-subject going, but I would like to talk with you
offline about this "ultimate soundtrack". I too am a big soundtrack fan.
Thanks. Contact me at peter@....

- Peter Hardcastle


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Robinson [mailto:slaveof1@...]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:10 AM
To: dragonraid@...; spamfam@...
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [DragonRaid] Greetings/Slightly off topic]


Hey, I'm a HUGE Soundtrack collector.  Of course in
recent years I've been forced to let many pass me by
for lack of funds, having four kids and all, but I
love Williams as well, especially his classics!

In fact, since you guys brought up the issue, I just
spent Friday night at my brother's house in Chicago
and the two of us spent over 24 hours, excluding
sleep, working on my brothers computer enhanced cd
burning studio to produce the ULTIMATE soundtrack mix
of both Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back (we ran out
of time to do Return of the Jedi).  What I mean by
this is that we took the complete soundtrack of each
movie and organized it in the order of the movie,
completely according to the movie; every jot and
tittle of the music.  For those of you who may be
intimately familiar with the soundtracks, even the
newest releases, you may know that they are not
perfectly ordered in this way on the soundtracks.  It
was alot of work, but after cutting and splicing and
re-ordering the music (and placing all the extra stuff
in bonus tracks) we then spliced in all the scenes
from the movie itself to fill in the gaps between the
musical tracks to make one seemless soundtrack
alternating between music only to movie clips!  And
with my brother's equipment we were able to overlap
tracks seemlessly without interruptions for a complete
soundtrack mix!  They are awesome!  In fact, we even
included the trailers for the special editions just
for added effect!  For anyone who enjoys listening to
the music, but loves outtakes from the movie as well,
these are truly masterpieces!  Now mind you, I don't
have as much time on my hands as your all thinking.
This was just a one time deal that my brother and I
have been dreaming of doing for a long time and
finally found some time to make it happen.  Of course,
we're still going to have to do Jedi.  It just took
much longer than we imagined it would.  You'd be
surprised at how out of order the Empire STrikes Back
Special Edition soundtrack is especially.

Kevin
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> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 12:11:44 -0700
> From: spamfam@...
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> To: "David L. Milner" <papabeardm@...>
> Subject: Re: [DragonRaid] Greetings/Slightly off
> topic
>
> "David L. Milner" wrote:
>
> > Greetings, Fellow LightRaider Scott (Egerion).
> Hail and well met!
>
> Well met, indeed.  Thank you.
>
> >         Another film music buff!  I love it! I
> started collecting soundtracks
> > when I was about 15 (back when Arthur was king),
> and I also have a slew
> > of them.  I love John Williams' music
> particularly, because he has a keen
> > sense of "real" music, as opposed to the "Let's
> see what current tunes we
> > can interpolate into the musci so we don't really
> have to pay a composer"
> > school of film music. Some of the great film music
> would work great as
> > background music  for DR.
>
> It's always great to connect with another filmusic
> fan.  I've been at it for nearly
> as long as I have been DragonRaid, and it's hard to
> say which one I love more.
> John's music has had a dramatic (literally) effect
> on my life, and (aside from Dick
> Wulf) he's one of my long-time heroes.  Interesting
> story: I got quite a revelation
> a few months ago, after my parents returned from a
> family reunion up in Oregon.  My
> father's first cousin has a son by the name of Kevin
> Kaska (my second cousin), who
> has worked with Williams on several occasions,
> orchestrating and conducting some of
> his music (he released a fantastic CD wherein he
> conducted the London Symphony
> Orchestra, performing Williams' Trumpet Concerto and
> Essay for Strings).
> Apparently, Williams is quite taken with his
> abilities; I gather he's something of
> a prodigy.  He refers to him as the "tall genius,"
> and even went so far as to give
> him as a gift one of the arrangement books from the
> original scoring session for
> E.T.  So I guess I have some distant connection to
> Williams after all....
>
> As far as background music for DR, I've already
> compiled some tapes that are great
> for playing in the background during game sessions.
> It does quite a bit for adding
> atmosphere to the proceedings.
>
> >         The first soundtrack I bought was "The Ten
> Commandments" by Elmer
> > Bernstein, and later bought "Ben-Hur" by Miklos
> Rosza.  I have several
> > other Rosza soundtracks, including "King of Kings"
> and "El Cid".  I would
> > really like to get hold of his soundtrack for "Quo
> Vadis", but alas,
> > intellectually superior film music lovers such as
> myself and Scott are
> > not nearly adequately represented in the current
> market.
>
> Not nearly.  It's an ongoing struggle, trying to get
> heard by the recording
> companies.  Sometimes campaigns requesting the full
> score for a certain film will
> produce results, and there have been a good rash of
> re-releases in the last few
> years containing all the music from past Williams
> classics.  But overall, we're
> really not that respected, and more often than not
> our plaintive cries fall on deaf
> ears.  Fortunately, we do have some representation
> in professional circles,
> including the venerable Michael Matessino, who
> produced the full scores for the
> three Special Edition Star Wars films, as well as
> the recent Sound of Music full
> release and, most notably, the full score to the
> original Superman film (one of my
> all time favorites!).  He was one of the people I
> was corresponding with when I was
> contemplating the Williams book; he's a great guy,
> and he has quite a passion for
> doing just what we love - compiling complete scores
> for the listening public.
>
> >         Scott, please send me your e-mail address.
>  I live in Pueblo, and would
> > love to correspond with you.  Or maybe we can do
> lunch.  Have your
> > people.... Aw, just send me your e-mail address.
>
> It should be in the "From" part of this e-mail
> above, but I'll just give it to you
> anyway: spamfam@....  Anyone is welcome to
> contact me at any time with
> questions, or just to talk.
>
> >         I wrote a musical based on DR, if you are
> still interested in drama.
> > I'd appreciate your take on it.
>
> I've heard quite a bit about you in the past year,
> actually.  I know of your
> musical, and of a few other projects you've had a
> hand in (you'd probably be
> surprised how much I've seen).  Honestly, I've been
> wanting to talk to you in
> particular for quite some time now, but like this
> list, I just haven't made the
> effort yet.  My apologies.  I'll get in touch with
> you soon, and we can swap
> stories.
>
> >         Anyhow, welcome to the list.  You have
> apparently been part of the DR
> > family for years.  Always nice to meet a long lost
> relative.
>
> Yes it is, and like I said in my message, learning
> that there were so many
> "relatives" still out there was one of the great
> thrills of my life.  Thanks for
> the warm welcome.  We have much to share, and I look
> forward to meeting you.
>
> - Scott
>
>
>
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