Thor Joachim Haga
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Ha, ha…what an introduction post! Good times, TG! Hope you stick around for a while. There have been too many people who have come on to say hello and then disappeared off the face of the earth forever.
I have the old Cinema Septet CD by Young, which also has the first two on that disc, if memory serves. I’m guessing they reused that? (THE TOWER, I have on its own digital album….great score).
Hehe. We need to do a Grusin thread at some point, though. Maybe you were thinking of the Grusin/HOOK connection since we were talking about Williams doing sound—a-likes… 🙂
Yup, as mentioned earlier, I’ve reached Rachel Portman in my collection walkthrough now. This 1992 score is the earliest I own of her. Slightly whimsical, but SEVERAL themes on display here, not just the one she usually repeats. Love the more downkey woodwind moments. Possibly temp tracked with TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD? But the less said about the ugly brown border on the cover, the better. Don’t know why Big Screen Records did those.
I started re-reading that thread on JWFAN about plagiarism after the subject was broached in the Quincy Jones thread, and while reading it, it occured to me how highly people out there in the big world rank the ‘originality’ (or the ‘genetic’) criterion mentioned above. So much so that it completely overshadows the other criteria. A shame, because they are just as important, sometimes even more. In fact, originality – however you want to define that – probably plays a LESSER role in evaluating a film score than, say, the ‘aesthetic’ one for me. Just a thought.
Cool story, Nick! I’m impressed you were so quality conscious at the time, almost as if you were always looking ahead into the future.
I had a more mundane here-and-now relationship to it at the time. VHS was what it was; I never dreamed up better formats (although the extremely expensive and always elusive Laserdiscs existed at the same time I was buying tapes). I even marveled at some high end VHS transfers, like the aforementioned JURASSIC PARK — we had a great test run with that in the television room.
That’s why I can vividly remember the first time I watched a DVD at a friend’s student dorm, probably around the year 2000. Totally blew me away! But unlike music, where I was always HiFi-minded (something I inherited from my dad), I was never really the same way with films. I remember getting the cheapo DVD ScanBox version of SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, and although I was bummed there weren’t many extra features on it, the video and sound were so much better than my old taped VHS!
Yes, found it. Here it is.
Well, it’s not a voluntary break, really; it’s a hearing issue that keeps me “locked” to this forum alone. Might be a couple of years until I return to JWFAN in full, if I return at all. But I lurk there now and then…wasn’t there a thread called “John Williams plagiarism” or some such thing, where this issue could be brought up? I seem to vaguely recall one.
By the way, I don’t think it’s an issue of plagiarism myself. Just a weird coincidence. But I’m sure it would ignite some discussion.
I’m on a break from JWFAN, but feel free to post it there (with a link to this thread, of course), and let the mayhem commence! 🙂
