Redman comments on the internet, blasting some of the message boards.

After which a discussion ensues on FILMUS as to which is the biggest online wasteland.

So far, the boards blasted are:
rmm
filmscoremonthly
filmtracks, and
moviemusic.com.

I'll let you read the whole thread right here .

But I'll quote the comments directly regarding mm.com:

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Originally posted by Ford Thaxton on FILMUS:

The true wastlands of message has to be either Filmtracks board which film scores are almost never discussed or Moviemusic.com, which is run by a power mad cowordly loon who thinks he's the Pope and the board is his messageboard is his Chruch.

IMHO fo course.

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"Chruch."

That's one thing they didn't touch much on. The bad spelling by Thaxton.

But I agree about r.m.m. I've taken it off my Usenet listings.

(an example would be his "review" of Shore's Two Towers. It's not enough to call it dull and mediocre, but he called it simple-minded, cracking on Shore's intellect)

At the very least the others who do continue to post on rmm try to lighten up the place with a little humor -- but sadly many of the posters are humor-challenged.

Ford's a very confused man. But let's see, which power mad "cowordly" dude would I like to be right about now, the Pope or Saddam Hussein?

Hmmm.

or I should say anything that substantively differentiates it from any of the other online wastelands.

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Originally posted by PeterK:
Anyway, welcome to my church. At least the aisles are clean and there is room in the pews. For clear thinkers, anyway.

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Ave Satani, Peter, Versus Christus.

It's a pleasure to post here, and I don't miss Ford.

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Originally posted by jonathan_little:
Can somebody give me a good "Big T" score? I own the Gerhardt re-recording with T's music on it, but nothing on it really gets me going. ( )

NP: something by The Big H. (no, not Horner or Hans.)

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Lost Horizon on that Gerhardt album still gives me wood, but I kind of feel the same you do JL....Guns Of Navarone is good, but the album always bored me. I hear Search For Paradise (recently issued on cd)is good(the finale is recorded on the Gerhardt album, and it's glorious).
His work focuses too much on that folksy, old timey song stuff for my tastes...if I have to hear that stuff, give me Steiner! I am looking forward to(with reservations) the Silva Tiomkin set coming out, if just out of curiosity. It will be interesting to hear the Big T presented in a concert manner, hope it doesn't stink (Dinko, that's your cue boss!)

Sean

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Originally posted by OHMSS76:
I am looking forward to(with reservations) the Silva Tiomkin set coming out, if just out of curiosity. It will be interesting to hear the Big T presented in a concert manner, hope it doesn't stink (Dinko, that's your cue boss!)
Sean

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Cue taken.

1) I quit buying this Silva trash (unless they do something I *love*, ie Rota's Romeo and Juliet), thus I will not be able to listen to it so that I can blast it.

2) I will buy it if the booklet credits all the Russian folk music Tiomkin used in 'his' scores.

3) I do not know about Silva presenting stuff in concert manner. Their CDs have lots of reverb, but most of the instruments seem fairly close-miked. What I get as an impression from their CDs is that the main instruments of any given piece are mixed more prominently volume-wise, while the rest of the orchestra is dropped to the background in a concert hall setting.

True there have been some flaws to projects associated with him. But at least he is a friendly and intelligent man who supports film music.

As for Ford, true he supports film music, but has a terrible ego and attitude. I think it is overcompensation for his other defects.

That said...I really hate to see this type of "trashing" going on here. One of the reasons I have refused to post on FILMUS, RMM and FSM has to do with all this negative bickering. (I realize I just added my 2 cents to the "war" but that was only to clarify where my position lies.)

I hope this thread doesn't linger and become some monster like it has appeared elsewhere. Let's try to find something better to discuss. If we want to talk "wars," there is too much going on in the more important REAL WORLD in this regard to discuss rather than these petty gripes.

James

Archives at Google.

I know the Prague horse head has long been drawing flies in the bed of Don Corleone for years now
I guess I meant 'concert' in that this Silva set would be presenting specially arranged suites, maybe like what they did with the Moross set, The Cardinal, showcasing longer suites, instead of a parade of generic cues.

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Originally posted by PeterK:
The Pope.

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But, just as there's a gap between officers and enlisted men in the army or between managers and laborers in business, there also seems to be a similar gap between record producers and the people who buy their records. The producers think the fans are just a bunch of morons who should be grateful instead of critical. Maybe it's because Nick is cultured and British and sees all this talk as hooliganism

Actually, I think Nick has done us all a great service however first through Bay Cities and then by opening up the 20th vaults and you don't see me mention him in negative tones as I would say Ford. [Nick says that Bay Cities failed because he didn't have a guy like Chris from Varese around but it's likely if he had such a guy the guy would've opposed doing half the records Bay Cities put out.]

As for groups from one message board knocking other message boards, that's like rooting for your own football team and dogging out the rivals. To call the whole game a wasteland though is a little harsh but people are entitled to their opinions.

If I thought I didn't get something out of coming here, meeting other fans, reading posts, and writing responses (like this one), I wouldn't do it. This is hardly a wasteland, in fact, it's one of the few places where you can talk about the pros and cons of the subject. Without it, I'd be in isolation with issues of the Film Score Monthly as my one and only Pravda to get info and opinion from.

But, I'm sure that would be fine by the record producers because then I'd talk their party line and praise them with rose petals for every little crum they dished out.