https://johnkennethmuir.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/jaws018.jpg Maybe put the discs in his JAWS! Great ideas everyone! Love the Leg! First 50 ordered receive a swatch of the Kintner boys yellow rubber raft. Haven't posted photos here in awhile. Forgot how to. -Duh...
Wha... wait a minute. This happened? I remember seeing this post and thinking it was still about Jaws 2. Thank goodness limited Intrada is out or else I'd be long out of the game on this release.
Royal Mail doesn't seem to be scanning any of my packages in last couple of months, so I lose track of everything once it leaves the US. But JAWS 1 & 2 should be in the UK by now.
Ok it's here & I'll be nice & eschew the board of the stream of expletives I'm spewing out - this is fan- effing-tastic!! Sound is beautiful, the notes. ...oh man, we get WEATHER reports of when the sessions were held! This is the kind of crazy detail I just eat up, loving this. I'm so happy Intrada got this one, not to slight the other labels, but they killed it on this set. Killed it. 5 stars, get it shorty, get it. -Sean
My goodness... what a release! The liner notes are even more informative than usual. Mr. Matessino really deserves a great big ice cream sundae for his work finessing unconventional source material into a terrific two-channel stereo mix for CD. Unbelievable. The story behind the restoration is a page turner. This is precisely the treatment this score deserves. The rest of the booklet is pretty wonderful too, especially the session photos courtesy Mr. Spielberg.
Mike M., a couple of questions for you sir. One, considering not only the mastering work but the placement of proper cues (the correct take of Man Against Beast for example), does this new release now stand as the best and most accurate presentation of the score to date, including compared to DVD releases and even the recent Blu-ray which presumably used the 2000 mix as well? Two, the liner notes mention the best source available was used for the MCA soundtrack album; were the original tapes not to be found? Whatever you used sounds great.
Huge thanks all around to the great team at Intrada, Mike and of course John Williams. A major, major gap in film score preservation and availability has now been properly remedied. It was worth the wait.
