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Mar 25, 2014 - 4:26 PM
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Foodman
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It's been a number of years now since I first discovered the great scores of Jerry Goldsmith. I have to admit at times it was expensive tracking down his out-of-print scores. I was sure that I would never come late to a composers' music again. Well, it happened to me again with John Williams. I had several scores over the years, but recently my interest in his music has caught fire! I can not believe I overlooked this great composer. I have been buying up numerous affordable soundtracks by Williams in the past month to make up for lost time.
Now I'm facing the same problem like I experienced collecting Goldsmith rarities, Big Bucks!
Towering Inferno, Dracula, Jaws-2, Poseiden Adventure, Earthquake, Cowboys, Eiger Sanction etc.
I'm wondering if and when some of these will be reissued? I would be curious to know which composers some of you have had the same experience I have had?
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Mar 26, 2014 - 6:21 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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re discovering John Williams now..."monsieur Neary, I envy you" 
My 'late to the gamers' have been Jerry Fielding, Stu Phillips and John Scott.
Three composers of whom I did have a few LP's during my early years collecting, when I was obsessing over Williams, Goldsmith, Horner, Barry, Morricone, Poledouris, Broughton and about 50 others, but never followed up any real interest in them.
But, as a lot of newer scores have lost my interest, these 3 composers have reminded me how good film music used to sound.
I have been quite lucky hoovering up the scores I had missed (I have always had a decent paying job, a good budget to play with and an understanding missus, although I plain refuse to pay the $200 for that old Josey Wales promo, so I will wait for a proper, definitive release of that one).
The John Scott stuff has been revelatory!
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Mar 26, 2014 - 9:23 AM
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Thomas
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Now I'm facing the same problem like I experienced collecting Goldsmith rarities, Big Bucks!Towering Inferno, Dracula, Jaws-2, Poseiden Adventure, Earthquake, Cowboys, Eiger Sanction etc.
My take on this is that you don't necessarily have to have all these now rarer scores and spend a small fortune in order to get a good idea of a composer's work. In the specific case of Williams, if you have a good variety of his more available and affordable releases then that's acceptable. I'm trying to say you don't have to be a completist and seek out all the hard to find scores to admire a composer's work.
I got relatively late into Goldsmith, and I only own around 20 or so of his scores, and I'm not going to spend a fortune on his OOP stuff, but I like the ones I have and feel they are a good representation of his stuff.
Something like that, anyway...
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Yep that happened to me with Alexandre Desplat. luckily he's one of the newer composer with a smaller body of work than Goldsmith or Williams but some of his older (french) scores are very rare and expensive.
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