We are working on several scores at the moment, including some
requested items as Days of Heaven, Meteor Man, Ghostbusters, and
others...

Our first release is at hand. We will be releasing a score which is
seeing its first time on CD, or any format for that matter.

The CD is American Perfekt by Simon Boswell.. There will also be a
bonus track to the alternate score to Eighteenth Angel that Simon
composed but walked off of. The Eighteenth Angel score will be an
upcoming release, as will some of Simon's earlier work such as the
early Italian horror films, Hackers, and Hardware (rights on some of
these permitting).

American Perfekt will be a limited edition numbered run of 2000 and
will be #1 in the composers collection. So if you think you will ever
collect the entire set, start now before they are $100 on ebay.

We are now putting together the new site at www.regal-audio.com

We will be accepted money order, cashier's check, personal check,
credit cards (through paypal initially).

Please support us, and PLEASE DON'T POST THE RELEASES HERE. We can
only afford to print 2000 copies at a time, and if these don't sell,
we won't be able to bring you more scores.. copying against a huge
company like Warner is one thing. Copying against a small outfit
composed of collectors is another..

Feel free to email if you have any questions...

THANKS FOR READING!
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Here's the email they give:

::+: Morpheus :+:: (starwars@satx.rr.com)

Ghostbusters eh? Hmmmmm.....
Here's the direct link for those who are also baffled: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&th=5d3bddad98852bfe,1

Check out the site, and we'll all just have to keep posted on it!

NP:Ionisation(Varese)

Don't use words around me that got no meaning.

Wow. If they release this one, I'll kiss who ever produces it!

-Joe (Is praying the producer is a women)

Still, with that nasty-sounding bootleg out there, I wonder what they're planning on releasing..... and odd (although not unheard of) that they wouldn't involve the composer in their plans.

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Originally posted by OHMSS76:
Looky what I found at rec.music.movies...

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Please support us, and PLEASE DON'T POST THE RELEASES HERE. We can
only afford to print 2000 copies at a time, and if these don't sell,
we won't be able to bring you more scores.. copying against a huge
company like Warner is one thing. Copying against a small outfit
composed of collectors is another..

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I like this one:

Executive Decision - 61 Tracks - 2 CDs - Jerry Goldsmith
Hong Kong Limited Edition Pressing of 2500 Pieces
$29.99

"Hong Kong Limited Edition"??

Isn't Hong Kong basically "Bootlegger Central"? (Or is that Bangkok?)

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Originally posted by PeterK:
Dan - I bet FSM wouldn't tell you it's odd to not involve a composer in their projects. Even better... I am talking about the living composers, too!

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True.... but I think places like FSM and others that don't involve the composers are the exception, not the norm. And in that regard, it IS "odd". (But again, as I already said, it's not unheard of.)

Yep, I saw the exchange on rec.music.movies. I usually don't dig this sort of scene, but it will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Of course that copy of The Howling has me salivating, so hopefully our new friend can give some more info.

NP:Twilight's Last Gleaming(Goldsmith)It's Jerry day! Yea yea!

We are completely legitimate. In most cases, the composer has nothing to do with the deal. It's mechanical rights, and master rights. With Simon, we have been VERY lucky in being able to deal with him on some of the material he owns the rights to.

In regards to the others, it's a matter of finding the master tapes...

Oh, and if any of you wanted to see Blow Out, or Meteor Man, you can thank Ford Thaxton for killing those deals. We are a completely legitimate company, but he emailed MGM, telling them we were going to rip them off (he doesn't know us and never has) and they backed out of Blow Out, and Meteor Man is iffy (although that is owned by Motown)...

For those of you who don't know, Ford Thaxton is the resident idiot on the net, in regards to soundtracks. He even spent some time at a well-known composer's house one time, and ran up a $1000 phone bill. He is even reported to have made a homosexual pass at another, being promptly kicked out. For more on him, follow this link http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ford+thaxton+lukas+kendall&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=2&selm=3leu86%244a5%40dcsun4.us.oracle.com and MOST IMPORTANTLY http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ford+thaxton+lukas+kendall&start=30&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=31&selm=2000121002492176639%40zetnet.co.uk.

This is the kind of guy who claims to love music, but he just single handidly killed two scores chances of seeing the light of day (at least Meteor Man.. who else is going to release that??)

If anyone has any questions, feel free to email. We are gearing the site up now, and Simon's first release is being prepared and will be sent to the replicators soon.

Anytime you see someone running a record company (like Robert Townson, or Roger Feigelson, etc.) talking "with the rest of us", they usually do so with a certain level of decorum and professionality - and I haven't really seen that yet. All Ford asked was if anyone knew who you were. That's it.

And he pointed out that you're selling bootlegs. While that probably wouldn't have been much of an issue (Intrada, SuperCollector, etc. all sell them too), the problem is that you're selling bootlegs while trying to get licenses from the very companies that these titles were bootlegged from!

I'm not going to be on any side here, I don't know enough about the company to make any judgement calls. But I do know what I read, and don't seem to be handling these posts professionally at the moment.

Dan

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Originally posted by dgoldwas:
All Ford asked was if anyone knew who you were. That's it.

[Message edited by dgoldwas on 08-01-2001]

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That's not entirely true. Ford (like always) emailed, said we were not legitimate, made threats, said he was going to "ruin us," and single handidly killed the releases of at least one, but possibly two scores. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Check out the urls I provided. You will see what kind of person Ford is.