I got my shipping notice on the same day it was delivered.
I hope yours was intact, my jewel case was broken. They don't make them nor even ship them like they used to any more.
Any way this is the last of my most requested expanded scores.....As I look at my collection, I don't see anything else . Even Robocop 2 is there! Air Force One was the 6th or 7th CD I've ever owned. I bought it at a time when I just started to buy scores the first 3 or 4 years and I wasn't really paying attention to the composer's name on the cover. I just knew them as the music from this and that movie. It wasn't until I was listening to the Hi-Jack track, that I questioned "who did this?!". Jerry Goldsmith? Sounds familiar. Then I realized that I had another score by Jerry Goldsmith I bought 2 or 3 years earlier. Medicine Man! Then I started looking at my other scores for the names of the composers. Back then I got all my film score news and discussions from mostly the Usenet film music related newsgroup. I had heard that the reuse fees for Varese was a big deal back then, and they couldn't release more music at the time, but then there were rumors of Joel McNeely's music being part of the problem also.
I forgot the story Does anyone know why Joel McNeely was brought in to co score this movie? Was he the first or second choice? Maybe the second because of Randy Newman. The CD Text reveals McNeely worked on at least 50% of this score!
I hope yours was intact, my jewel case was broken. They don't make them nor even ship them like they used to any more.
When I saw they are now shipping CDs in those vacuum sealed corrugated cardboard mailers which try to destroy the items they contain before they even hit the shipping process, I expected the worst. I had ordered Air Force One and Star Trek. I "only" ended up with a small crack on the back of the Air Force One jewel case.
I got my shipping notice on the same day it was delivered.
I hope yours was intact, my jewel case was broken. They don't make them nor even ship them like they used to any more.
Any way this is the last of my most requested expanded scores.....As I look at my collection, I don't see anything else . Even Robocop 2 is there! Air Force One was the 6th or 7th CD I've ever owned. I bought it at a time when I just started to buy scores the first 3 or 4 years and I wasn't really paying attention to the composer's name on the cover. I just knew them as the music from this and that movie. It wasn't until I was listening to the Hi-Jack track, that I questioned "who did this?!". Jerry Goldsmith? Sounds familiar. Then I realized that I had another score by Jerry Goldsmith I bought 2 or 3 years earlier. Medicine Man! Then I started looking at my other scores for the names of the composers. Back then I got all my film score news and discussions from mostly the Usenet film music related newsgroup. I had heard that the reuse fees for Varese was a big deal back then, and they couldn't release more music at the time, but then there were rumors of Joel McNeely's music being part of the problem also.
I forgot the story Does anyone know why Joel McNeely was brought in to co score this movie? Was he the first or second choice? Maybe the second because of Randy Newman. The CD Text reveals McNeely worked on at least 50% of this score!
McNeely was brought on because of the tight deadline Goldsmith was working with. He needed to pass off a handful of scenes to get it done in time.
The sound quality of this set is wonderful and I love it.
The setup though is a little weird. There's a few things from the pristine foot warmer that could have been included on here.
Also on the original foot warmer where the unreleased Goldsmith cues were in mono the "The Parachutes / Parachute Attack" that was the film version the way how it opened up is how it is in the "End Credits" so this leads me to believe that is how "The Parachutes" is originally meant to be.
Also another thing to point out with the pristine sounding foot warmer that has the film version take for "Target Air Force One". The one on this set is the alternate take.
I have made a thorough personal edit and I eliminated the "End Credits" track as it was nothing more than just edited material from a few cues. I did fix "The Parachutes" taking it from the "End Credits".
I also took the film versions and put them in the main body and took the alternates and put them as bonus tracks.
Oh and I also renamed the tracks that had "KV" to "Ivan". For example "KV and The Hostages". I renamed it to "Ivan and The Hostages". I am still puzzled as to who "KV" is...maybe a mistake on Goldsmith's part when he wrote the cue titles.
This is all personal preference of course. I'm glad to finally have the complete score though.
The sound quality of this set is wonderful and I love it.
The setup though is a little weird. There's a few things from the pristine foot warmer that could have been included on here.
Also on the original foot warmer where the unreleased Goldsmith cues were in mono the "The Parachutes / Parachute Attack" that was the film version the way how it opened up is how it is in the "End Credits" so this leads me to believe that is how "The Parachutes" is originally meant to be.
Also another thing to point out with the pristine sounding foot warmer that has the film version take for "Target Air Force One". The one on this set is the alternate take.
I have made a thorough personal edit and I eliminated the "End Credits" track as it was nothing more than just edited material from a few cues. I did fix "The Parachutes" taking it from the "End Credits".
I also took the film versions and put them in the main body and took the alternates and put them as bonus tracks.
Oh and I also renamed the tracks that had "KV" to "Ivan". For example "KV and The Hostages". I renamed it to "Ivan and The Hostages". I am still puzzled as to who "KV" is...maybe a mistake on Goldsmith's part when he wrote the cue titles.
This is all personal preference of course. I'm glad to finally have the complete score though.
Can you closely listen to "Air Force One In Trouble" with headphones and report back?
Just finished working on this clip. It was a whopper. Here's Newman's rejected Hijacking cue restored with as much sound effects and dialogue as possible. I had to post it on Vimeo as Youtube will block it.
