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Jon
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I almost slept through "Rocky IV" the other day, just to listen to the score by this guy who's rather a phenomenon than a person - Vince DiCola. I have yet to meet someone who knows anything about him, except that he scored this film in 1985 and "Transformers - The Movie" the year after.Who was he?
Why did he disappear?
What is he doing today?
Let's face it, "Training Montage" and "War" from "Rocky IV" are two incredibly cool tunes, so pompous and overmelodic that it almost isn't true. DiCola plays on every emotion that he can think of, and I admit it - I love it. His style of music is something I haven't heard from many others - OK, he has a lot of influence from the Moroder/Faltermeyer/Levay-school and some hints from Vangelis and Tangerine Dream too, but he is even more melodically oriented.
What if he started to work for Bruckheimer today - instead of Trevor Rabin?
posted 12-08-2000 09:48 AM PT (US) Jon
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Heh...just found out that Vince DiCola has a solo album released, called "In-VINCE-ible" (duh), check out www.artist-shop.com/newlabel for more info. It's 74 minutes long, with about half of it being instrumental with cues from film scores!He also plays with a band called "Thread", it seems. There'a also a picture of him there, with dark shades and a strange hat.
posted 12-08-2000 10:04 AM PT (US) Ricard L. Befan
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DiCola also wrote some additional cues for the 1983 Stallone/Travolta collaboration, STAYIN' ALIVE.
I have to admit that I almost hated his score for ROCKY IV when the film was released (I always compared his aggressive synthesized themes with the previous Bill Conti works), until a few years later I began to accept it as it is, and started to LOVE those amazing cues that you mention (the -unreleased- film versions are even better), plus the "Hearts of Fire" song with that superb instrumental ending (again, film version).
I didn't know about his new album, so this is great news for me. Thanks!
posted 12-09-2000 10:45 AM PT (US) SEBULBA
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His score for Transformers is pretty cool. I have the complete 70 + min. version. He does some nice work with synth.
posted 12-09-2000 10:55 AM PT (US) Will
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I've made the "Ultimate Edition" of the Transformers soundtrack, all the cues and songs in chronological order plus the songs in movie edit.Since the whole movie is scored or with songs, listening to it is like listening to the movie itself without the dialogue.
NP TPM Ultimate Edition (*****)
posted 12-10-2000 07:37 AM PT (US) Jon
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Also, the "Living In America" single by James Brown from Rocky IV has a B-side by DiCola, called "Farewell". It's possibly the music played at the funeral of Stallone's buddy.
posted 12-11-2000 10:05 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB