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 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 3:41 PM   
 By:   darthbrett   (Member)


The music has an almost British character in places. I wonder if Ray Ellis was an ex-pat.


Nope, he was born and bred in Philadelphia, PA. His early jazz/R&B career was in Philly and the Northeastern seaboard, but later on he moved to Ojai, California where I assume he lived when he started doing all of the TV stuff. He served in the US Army during WWII as well.

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 4:39 PM   
 By:   Gary S.   (Member)

Re the confirmation email - I tried twice with my regular email with no response - tried a third time via hotmail and got it right away.

I resubmitted my info again this afternoon and finally got an immediate response.

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 4:44 PM   
 By:   Gary S.   (Member)

In order to prepare for the boxed set I have pulled out my season 2 and 3 Blu ray sets. I'll have to rewatch season one on my HD Dvd player. Currently up Amok Time.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 5:09 PM   
 By:   Broughtfan   (Member)

I'll personally pack and inspect every set.

Now that's what I like...a gentleman whose word is his "bond."

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 5:42 PM   
 By:   johndupree52   (Member)

Am I the only one who kept waiting for Bulk in the La La Land TOS video to say "Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light." or any other Ghostusters quote?

Though the aforementioned quote could describe what some people would have said they would feel like if a TOS box was released.

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 5:56 PM   
 By:   Adam.   (Member)

Third time's the charm. I finally got my confirmation email from LLL after the third try. Number 2869.

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 8:28 PM   
 By:   Neil S. Bulk   (Member)

Am I the only one who kept waiting for Bulk in the La La Land TOS video to say "Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light." or any other Ghostusters quote?

Yes.

Neil

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 8:29 PM   
 By:   Broughtfan   (Member)

I just realized we're finally going to learn the identities of the composers who wrote all the wonderful second season "Trek" fanfare variations. The two that most interest me is the one used in the title opening of "Catspaw" and the one that sounds like "Korngold Revisited," the latter I've always believed to have been arranged by Fried. Perhaps both (and others) were made by Courage, though I think Dunning may have made at least one version of the fanfare as well.

Talking earlier about library sessions, I know Wilbur Hatch lead a big session (I assume a library date) in late June 1968 and was thinking the third season title was recorded the same day. Is this correct?

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 8:43 PM   
 By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member)

Am I the only one who kept waiting for Bulk in the La La Land TOS video to say "Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light." or any other Ghostusters quote?

Yes.

Neil





. . . It becomes my job to edit the takes down and match the episode segues to make sure that speed was accurate and takes were accurate, so what you're hearing is actually what you've heard in that TV show for years."



"We're all fans and we all know if we used the wrong take someone would absolutely call us out on it,
and that can't happen. We have to be spot-on perfect and that's what you're going to get with this set."


Johnny reminded me of someone too . . .




"When I first saw the original masters, I was impressed by the overall condition? It was very good? There were
about a hundred and fifty rolls? Each tape's a half an hour long? So that's seventy-five hours of material . . ."



"You have to be careful when you handle it that you don't break it? So it just requires constant
attention to detail and knowing when you're getting it the best that you can get it . . ."

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 9:11 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)



"You have to be careful when you handle it that you don't break it? So it just requires constant
attention to detail and knowing when you're getting it the best that you can get it . . ."


Now that's funny. I can't get that voice out of my head saying a line like that. big grin

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 9:31 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

Not to mention the use of Doomsday Machine cues and Fred Steiner re-recordings used on The Menagerie Part 2!


I haven't gotten to that episode yet in the remastered DVDs. Can you be more specific? Were the music substitutions put into "The Cage" footage or the Kirk-era framing story? And what Varese cues got used? This is amazing.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 10:00 PM   
 By:   Lee S   (Member)

Not to mention the use of Doomsday Machine cues and Fred Steiner re-recordings used on The Menagerie Part 2!


I haven't gotten to that episode yet in the remastered DVDs. Can you be more specific? Were the music substitutions put into "The Cage" footage or the Kirk-era framing story? And what Varese cues got used? This is amazing.


Was this in the "original effects" branching on the blu rays, or just the updated effects versions like the new theme?

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 10:01 PM   
 By:   NickintheATL   (Member)

Not to mention the use of Doomsday Machine cues and Fred Steiner re-recordings used on The Menagerie Part 2!


I haven't gotten to that episode yet in the remastered DVDs. Can you be more specific? Were the music substitutions put into "The Cage" footage or the Kirk-era framing story? And what Varese cues got used? This is amazing.


The beginning of Act One is one instance that comes to mind. There are others in that episode, but that one is the most jarring to me. It's supposed to be tracked with a cue from The Enemy Within.

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 10:11 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

The beginning of Act One is one instance that comes to mind. There are others in that episode, but that one is the most jarring to me. It's supposed to be tracked with a cue from The Enemy Within.

Interesting! Since "The Enemy Within" was re-recorded quite nicely by Tony Bremner, I wonder why they didn't use the needed bit from that digital recording.

And the remastered version of "The Enemy Within" itself had all its music, unless I missed something, so the "EW" original soundtrack tapes must have been available. Very odd.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 10:11 PM   
 By:   shadowman   (Member)

All I know is that I'm finally gonna get one of my favorite cues which to this point was not released on any of the previous TOS cd's from Varese, Label X, or GNP. It's the one playing when the Mugatu attacks a drugged Kirk in the episode "A Private Little War". It's a cue which was used in a number of episodes. My profound thanks to all who helped make this release possible. A truly monumental set
for one of my all time favorite t.v. shows. Long live Star Trek TOS!

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 10:32 PM   
 By:   Lukas Kendall   (Member)


Yes, Hatch conducted the 3rd season title theme and library music.

The piece that was tracked over the ep title for Catspaw is by Courage, called "Ship in Orbit (Big)."

What other questions are people asking...? While there may be 75 hours of recorded music, a great deal of that are the outtakes, which is to say bad takes, and we're not going to release those. We are carefully trying not to call this complete because that is such an important and all-encompassing word: sometimes at the end of a session they would just bang on the Yamaha E-3 for five minutes to get white noise for possible library use, and then never use it, and I'm sorry but we're not going to run all of that. This will be complete for everything that you would consider actual music, in the correct master takes.

Lukas

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 10:48 PM   
 By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member)

So . . . no studio chatter?

I guess I may as well also ask about various instances of onscreen singing, Uhura ("Charlie X," "Conscience of the King"), Spock ("Plato's Stepchildren"), the "space hippies," etc. Remember any details offhand?

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 10:51 PM   
 By:   Lukas Kendall   (Member)

So . . . no studio chatter?

We have a little studio chatter of interest. However, in my experience there's not as much studio chatter on these tapes (any film score tapes) as you might think, because they'd do such a good job conserving tape.

I gotta shut up now and let La La Land run the show as far as doling out this info...!

Lukas

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 11:37 PM   
 By:   Amer Zahid   (Member)

Oh I was wondering if the re-recording of the main title and end credits used for the remastered seriesbe included as a bonus in the set would be included??

I think that's there, too, though I don't know how many of the re-recorded titles are included. Believe they did three of the MT: Courage season 1, Steiner season 1 (melody in cello, horn countermelody in woodwinds), Courage season 2. At the time it was deemed that the season two and three arrangement didn't change (except for the voice taken out) so there's no new third season orch. recording. Not sure about the end title, probably two versions (Steiner season 1, Courage? season 2).


So can some officially reconfirm this. Id like both version i.e with and without kirks voice over. Given the 15 disc sets im sure there would be enough space. In comparison to the Ron Jones TNG set I was a little annoyed that each disc didnt have Main& End title book ending each disc.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2012 - 11:46 PM   
 By:   Thgil   (Member)

I must be an oddball. I never play the main/end titles on the GNP Star Trek discs. Or on La-La-Land's TNG Collection. I know I'm listening to Star Trek. I don't need to hear Goldsmith's theme at the beginning and end of each disc. Same thing with the original series. (Except "The Cage" where it actually seems appropriate.)

 
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