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Topic: Woo-hoo! I'm Goin' To Detroit! It's Official!
Shaun Rutherford
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Hello there,
Just received my tickets today (after much procrastination, the best seats I could get were MB Left (Mid Balcony?!?), Row EE, Seats 30 and 32 (I'm a big man). Sweet! Everyone else who's going, please tell me where you're sitting and how bad my seats really are! Can't wait to meet you all! I'll be the one wearing the GOLDSMITH RULEZ! shirt. Just kidding.Shaun
posted 03-24-2000 11:35 AM PT (US) James
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What, are you stickin' it to me?!Kidding.
I just found out I won't be able to go, and I was really looking forward to this.
Anyone know where I might find a schedule for all of Goldsmith's concerts this year?
James
posted 03-24-2000 01:23 PM PT (US) Audacity
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That would be nice to have a list of all of Goldsmith's concerts, and maestro Williams too.Audacity
posted 03-24-2000 02:33 PM PT (US) Howard L
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"Can't wait to meet you all! I'll be the one wearing the GOLDSMITH RULEZ! shirt."Just don't forget to leave your Spock ears home.
posted 03-24-2000 04:11 PM PT (US) Chris Kinsinger
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...and I thought everybody would be wearing white wigs with ponytails!posted 03-24-2000 05:09 PM PT (US) Shaun Rutherford
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Hee-hee. I hope you know I was kidding, Howard! I WILL be wearing my Ghost And The Darkness Lion Teeth, however.Shaun
posted 03-24-2000 07:00 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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Shaun: Awriiiight!Wedge: This is YOUR neck of the woods: HOW and WHERE are we going to find each other? (Maybe the clip-on ponytail ISN'T such a bad idea.)
I will be wearing the black-and-white silk jacket, the round gold-rimmed spectacles, and the oh-so-superior expression on my mustachioed mug.
posted 03-24-2000 07:56 PM PT (US) Howard L
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Hey Rocco, I had a 'stache for like 15 years. Taking it off made me feel like I added ten to my appearance. Usually works the other way. Go figure.Shaun's line about the only seats left got me nervous & so I purchased a ducat on-line just to cover my bunnies. I've emailed Wedge with a pair of what looked like the cheapest most reasonably good-looking roach-proof motels from my AAA guide. One's near a Chinese restaurant, too (hint: Friday late afternoon/early evening before the concert?). Perhaps Wedge is playing the diligent college student for the moment; you know, all-nighters at the keyboard, cramming, getting loaded Thursday night to jumpstart the weekend...
posted 03-25-2000 10:04 AM PT (US) Shaun Rutherford
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No Chinese for me, thank you! Way to go, anyway, Howard! My girlfriend just asked me if we were going to stay overnight there and I responded with a "DOH!" Way to be ahead of the game! Incidentally, where's Wedge at during our time of need?Shaun
posted 03-25-2000 10:33 AM PT (US) H Rocco
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Wedge? WEDGE? WEEEEEEEEEEDGE? (Volume won't work over the net, but this will suffice to catapult is back to the Top.)NP: "The Howard Stern Radio Show" (late night TV show) (Gary Coleman is the guest) (he just said "Crabs is coming back again")
posted 03-25-2000 09:01 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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*Sniff*
And I can't come.NP: The Reivers (great Williams americana)
posted 03-26-2000 11:22 AM PT (US) Jack
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Anybody going Saturday?
posted 03-26-2000 09:26 PM PT (US) Howard L
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Man--just called one of the 2 cheap motels and the rate seems to have gone up over 50% from that which was published. Must have something to do with the oil thing. Looks like this little weekend junket could get pretty expensive, folks.
posted 03-27-2000 08:05 AM PT (US) Wedge
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AACK! I'm here! I'm here! Sorry ... it's been a mess, between school and family illnesses.Howard writes the following:
"Cross Country Inn-Warren
at jct. I-696 & Dequindre Rd. (exit 20)
(810) 754-5527
1P/$43-48, 2P/$50-55Super 8 Motel-Roseville
at jct. I-94 & Little Mack Rd. (exit 232)
(810) 296-1730
1P/$44, 2P/$50I'm sort of favoring the Roseville location even though it may be a little
further than Warren; (a) there's a Chinese restaurant located nearby & that
may be a good place to have a group dinner or whatever before the show, and
(b) it's strategically & conveniently located per a Saturday trip up to
Canada (hint-hint)."I don't know about dinner. Chinese might be good. I like Greektown, myself. As for how we might find eachother, I think I'm going to get a big cardboard sign that says "Kendall's Stepchildren" and wave it up in the air. Or maybe baseball caps with white ponytails attached.
Don't worry. I'll be scouting out the Hall beforehand to let everyone know. First, I'll need an inventory of all attendees, along with flight information, lodging, and seat #s. DON'T e-mail me about all that yet. Just get the information. I'll post requesting it soon.
posted 03-27-2000 10:41 AM PT (US) Howard L
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The Super 8's the one that the price's jacked-up; haven't checked the other. Will keep Wedge posted as confirmations occur. No sense in telling the rest of the non-film music world where we's gonna be at.
posted 03-27-2000 12:15 PM PT (US) Valere
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My wish to ALL of you that can go is one of happiness,and enjoyment of meeting others that share your same passion. I truly wish that I could go,to enjoy and meet and greet. Best Always, Valere.
posted 03-27-2000 01:28 PM PT (US) MWRuger
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Darn It! I was hoping to surprise everyone and just show up, but I won't be able to go either.But I will celebrate in spirit by programming an "Everythings Jerry" night and drink a little bourbon and think of you guys! Have a better one!
posted 03-28-2000 06:52 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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It honest-to-God breaks my heart that so many of you WON'T be there. I'll tip you all a virtual Jack Daniel's rocks when the time comes.NP: nothing yet ... what SHOULD I put on? I'll grab something out of the pile at random -- it is MAJIN by Akira Ifukube (it is almost always Akira I. or Jerry G, isn't it). Here we go ...
posted 03-28-2000 07:06 PM PT (US) joan hue
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Detroit or a new house? Detroit or a new house? Guess the house wins out. So H R will toast us "can'tmakeits" with Jack Daniels? Oh, Hank, you KNOW how "couth" I am, so it will have to be Leonitti"s cabernet sauvignon or better yet, Dom Perignon. And if that is too expensive, Mad Dog will do just fine. The rest of us will just complain because you all won't be posting that weekend. Hey, can someone bring a lap top to keep us updated EVERY SECOND?
posted 03-28-2000 07:32 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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Hatfield already has me earmarked for taking down EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENS (and he's much taller than me, at least by reputation, so I'm quite sure he'll make me do it), but I don't own a laptop. Should someone else tote one along, I'd be more than happy to send you and other no-turn-upniks any number of taunting e-mails explaining moment for moment and syllable for syllable PRECISELY what you're missing.NP: DAI MAJIN STRIKES AGAIN (Akira Ifukube, last of the accidental trilogy of Majins, all 1966)
posted 03-28-2000 08:08 PM PT (US) Chris Kinsinger
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If Rocco toasts individually to EVERYONE HERE who can't make it to the concert, I KNOW what kind of music he'll be listening to...it won't sound much like Goldsmith, though.Been there, done that.
I'll toast just once, for all...
And I'll be glad to carry you to your room, Roc...
That is, if I make it to the concert myself.
The jury is still out on that one, and as soon as I know the facts, I'll be just as gleeful as Shaun in shouting it from the rooftops!
However, while y'all are planning strategies toward a group meeting, I just have one little thing I'd like to mention:Wedge, the "big cardboard sign" idea is quite a good one. It really doesn't have to be that large. A 30 by 40 inch sheet of foamcor (styrofoam poster board) mounted on a 4 foot post would attract all eyes in a place where there are no other high-mounted signs. If this were a political campaign convention, one of these signs would simply be lost among all the rest, but in this venue, ONE sign will catch every pair of eyes!
However, printing the words "Kendall's Stepchildren" (I know you were kidding) is a bad idea. Lest we forget, Lukas Kendall glories in the fact that Goldsmith LOATHES him...so I, for one, have no intention of evoking the name of Kendall at a Goldsmith concert! A better idea would be to choose a SYMBOL that only WE know about...perhaps a WEDGE...yeah...A GREAT BIG RED WEDGE...kinda' like a triangle, only the top side is rounded, and the two pointy sides are straight.
I'll make the sign for ya' Wedge...even if I wind up not being able to come to the concert.posted 03-28-2000 08:20 PM PT (US) Mark Hatfield
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Hello, everybody!Got my airline tickets confirmed just the other day. I'm flying in Friday morning & leaving Monday afternoon, with tickets to the Friday evening & Sunday matinee concerts. I believe Mr. Rocco has tickets for the same performances.
I am really pretty darn excited about this! The trip has become more of an "event" than I had at first anticipated: my delight at getting to see/hear one of my idols in person is now matched by getting a chance to meet some of you folks in person. Sure wish "Mom" coulda been there, though.
Note to "Hank": the height difference is far more valuable in rebounding than in relationships, buddy.
posted 03-28-2000 10:03 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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"Mad Dog," Mom? I know from Thunderbird and Night Train -- similar? (I bought a half-pint of Thunderbird once many years ago because, as I explained to my friends at the time, "I just wonder what the end of the road tastes like." It is surprisingly sweet and grapey. Thinking of you, however, we may well lay out the green for something more Couth.)We keep reading here about who's NOT going (more I'm-so-blue faces at every one of ya), but who IS going? and will cop to it in public? (Oh, we'll find a way to find you.) C'mon, fellows, I thought LOTS of us were going! (And really, Christopher, "been there, done that" -- not in Detroit you haven't. Come on, who ELSE is liable to harangue us about the onrushing Apocalypse?)
NP: "THE TOWERING INFERNO and Other Disaster Classics" (Varese, cond. Debney and McNeely, not to mention the various OSTs throughout, i.e. DANTE'S PEAK, VOLCANO and OUTBREAK -- "March of the Lava" is tremendous, I may yet have to lay in a copy of VOLCANO.)
posted 03-28-2000 11:49 PM PT (US) Lou Goldberg
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I was lucky to see Goldsmith in concert a few years back in Toledo, Ohio. I'm sure the Detroit orchestra will be better, but I'm not going to attend. Hopefully, Jerry won't become nervous and start pulling his ponytail over his shoulder like he did then. If anyone has the back issue of FSM that discussed this concert, it has an accurate portrayal of what a bunch of jerks the fans were meeting Goldsmith back stage. So please be cool and bring no bootlegs for the man to sign. Otherwise enjoy.If anyone wants to drive to Ann Arbor from Detroit to come visit, I will be glad to meet you. Just e-mail me.
NP: Anna and the King of Siam (Bernard Herrmann)
[This message has been edited by Lou Goldberg (edited 29 March 2000).]
posted 03-29-2000 02:12 AM PT (US) Howard L
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"But I will celebrate in spirit by programming an "Everythings Jerry" night and drink a little bourbon and think of you guys!"Now Mr. Ruger, shame on you--you KNOW that if you're going to do it right it better be RUM, as in "KINSINGER, FETCH ME A RUM!"
"So H R will toast us 'can'tmakeits' with Jack Daniels?"
Joan, that's code language for Romulan ale. (contacts!)
"Hatfield already has me earmarked for taking down EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENS..."
Wasn't that the Swashbuckler's job? --Oh, that's Canada. Anyway, now that Senator Hatfield's itinerary is on record let me confirm that my flights're similarly timed. And I've booked rooms at 3 places (Livonia, Warren & Madison Hts.) and for relatively CHEAP rates (Joan: sorry, but I wear the cardboard belt around here) just to cover meself...and any last-minute attendees (Bloom: hint!). Are y'all going to the concert a 2nd time for a more critical ear as opposed to the golly-gee-gosh aspects the first time around?
And Mr. Bloom/Dickinson, do you really think LK "glories" in the JG-don't-like-FSM thing?
[This message has been edited by Howard L (edited 29 March 2000).]
posted 03-29-2000 09:05 AM PT (US) MWRuger
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Sir,As a confirmed abolitionist, I cannot drink a spirit that is part of the triangle trade. I may miss my Hot Toddy, but I will drink only sour mash bourbon in protest.
“Mr. Addams, I give you a toast!”
posted 03-29-2000 10:57 AM PT (US) Ron Pulliam
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My first thought on seeing the subject of this thread was to wonder where in the boonies the originator might live that would make a trip to Detroit an orgasmic event.Now see there is a valid reason for a film music fan to go to Detroit (well give me another one, if it exists).
As for the Goldsmith-Kendall brouhaha -- you all know that Goldsmith feels there's too much of his music on CD. Along comes Lukas and FSM and he's releasing Goldsmith scores from the Fox catalog left and right...with no assistance from Goldsmith...and it seems Goldsmith couldn't stop it if he, in fact, wanted to.
So, IF there is any glorying in being disliked by Goldsmith (if that's truly the situation), then Lukas must be really enjoying releasing Goldsmith's scores.
Rather than mention Lukas, why doesn't someone ask Goldsmith to autograph a CD of "Take A Hard Ride" or "Rio Conchos" or "The Flim-Flam Man" or "Patton"? I'll bet Goldsmith's reaction would be PRICELESS!
Ron
posted 03-29-2000 12:56 PM PT (US) Shaun Rutherford
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Yup. I'm takin' Rio Conchos for him to sign----for two reasons. One is that it's my favorite Goldsmith score, and another is to hear his reaction to the FSM release.Shaun
posted 03-29-2000 06:42 PM PT (US) Kris Koon
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Wish I could go. I'll just be stuck in Alabama for the summer. I don't suppose any of you who are driving could swing down (or up?) here and pick me up? I'll bring my Freud LP for Jerry to sign. Given the Alien score situation, I'd like to see his reaction to that. (Too bad I don't actually have a turntalble, so I haven't even heard it.)
posted 03-29-2000 07:41 PM PT (US) joan hue
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Hi Ron. If you don't mind answering this probably stupid question, I need a little education. I really don't understand the music publishing business. I may buy a CD from Intrada, the Net, CD Now, Soundtrack Retailers, FSM, etc. I just assumed these CD's were authorized for release by the composers or their heirs. So I don't understand why Jerry Goldsmith would be upset with FSM for distributing his soundtracks any more than another distributor. I've always heard he isn't fond of FSM, but wouldn't he get the same compensation from FSM as say Silva? Or are these composers not compensated for original or rerecorded soundtrack releases? I'm very confused and probably illiterate about the business aspects of film music. If I would have attended Detroit, I would have naively handed him my Silva The Omen: The Essential Jerry Goldsmith along with a FSM release.
(And embarassed all my cyber buddies with what I guess is a faux pas.) I just don't get it.H R, Mad Dog 20/20 has escaped your taste buds? Well, you're not missing much, as it is the kind that fits well in a brown paper bag. Somebody TAKE A LAP TOP! SEND PICTURES.
posted 03-29-2000 10:50 PM PT (US) joan hue
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P.S. dearest boys/sons. (Said with a LOUD roar!!) Since MOTHER can't be there to chaperone, absolutely NO, ZERO, NADA drugs, sex, booze, or rock and roll.Hmmm, that would blow your toast to me a tad bit; wouldn't it now?
NP The OMEN: The Essential guy whose name you all keep forgetting.
posted 03-29-2000 10:56 PM PT (US) Howard L
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MEMOTo: Mr. Dickinson
From: T. JeffersonPlease advise Mr. Ruger that was a truly glorious comeback; however, when he speaks of 'Mr. Addams' and writes with 2 d's he better be referring to Gomez, not John, and when I say Gomez it better be Astin, not Julia. Did you evah--
MRS. ADAMS: John, when you speak about saltpetre you say it with such 'joie de vivre'.
MR. ADAMS: Abigail, you spoke French!
(He grabs her arm and commences smooching...)
posted 04-01-2000 01:00 PM PT (US) Jeron
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I'm confused...
posted 04-01-2000 02:45 PM PT (US) Chris Kinsinger
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Not to worry, Jeron.
Howard is just being his old LUNATIC self!(I thought Raul made a marvelous Gomez!)
posted 04-01-2000 05:19 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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Remember, gentlemen, not everyone is familiar with your 1776 shtick. (Jeron, don't ask any more questions, it might just encourage them, at the tiniest drop of a hat they will start exchanging mountains of dialogue from Peter Stone's script for the musical 1776 -- a musical about the drafting of the Constitution, talk about your high concepts -- oh God, it may already be too late to stop them ... )I guess I should feel grateful Howard is deigning to appear here at all, however rarely ...
(Are you REALLY planning on going to Canada from there?)
NP: BABY: SECRET OF THE LOST LEGEND (original SPFM suite -- if I bring this one for Goldsmith to sign, will he even realize it's the real thing? The boot versions I've seen have looked absolutely identical. I wanted him to sign it at the tribute proper, but he got distracted by that *#&$^!%# Elmer Bernstein, or maybe it was Mancini. That's what I get for lurking at the END of the line ... and you know, people, not to tut-tut at you in advance, but just bring ONE thing to sign -- even assuming we get to meet him at all, we didn't in New York -- it was scary how much stuff people were compelling him to sign at the Tribute, and amazing to me that he just put up with it ... in barging in, Bernstein perhaps thought he was rescuing Goldsmith from yet one more lunatic. Well, he was, but all I really needed was a signature. Oh well, I did get to shake his hand.)
[This message has been edited by H Rocco (edited 01 April 2000).]
posted 04-01-2000 08:43 PM PT (US) MWRuger
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Howard:Sir;
I stand much abashed and contrite over my egregious error. Please do not let this faux pas stand in your way of supplying the continental army.
Your Obedient and Humble Servent
[This message has been edited by MWRuger (edited 02 April 2000).]
posted 04-02-2000 02:22 PM PT (US) Howard L
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REPLYTO: MWRuger
FROM: T. JeffersonOh very well, I withdraw the request.
(I'll speak to the printer about it later)
TJ/hl
CC: H Rocco, Jeronposted 04-02-2000 07:26 PM PT (US) Howard L
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"(Are you REALLY planning on going to Canada from there?)"Yes.
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