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[Satorious]

I live in hope that one day I might hear a decent rendition of the the Horseback/Forest chase music from AVTAK amongst any other unreleased Barry cues.

I thought Rich Douglas' rendition of that cue was pretty decent.

Anyway, how's your project going, gkgyver?

You're right - I forgot about that one, it's a fine track. This said Rich's composition does sound quite a bit different to me - presumably because he's composed it from memory rather than using the actual source? Anyway, it's great having all these talent Bond musicians around who appreciate and write Bond music. I'm loving Rich's new experimentation with the Strat guitar!

[gkgyver]

You know how it is sometimes. I've done those pieces, and was really looking forward to sink my teeth into the Octopussy pretitles, I've even done some transcription work.
I've ordered new software (for editing and a new sampler), and I said to myself "I'll finish it once I've installed and got an understanding of the new toys".

Well, and then came the pre- holiday- days. Plenty of exams to study for, Christmas/New Year's plans and then family gatherings around every corner, a family vacation at the end of December ... in short, I've installed the new stuff, but didn't have a chance yet to really explore it.

The project has not gone cold by any means.

After all, there is also the Venini glassworks cue left, I can't just leave it untouched.

[The Shark]

I thought Rich Douglas' rendition of that cue was pretty decent.

No, it gets the harmonies and orchestration all wrong. Good attempt though.

[gkgyver]

I can't remember him doing it at all ... I have to look for it.

EDIT: No, can't find it on his Bond page.

[The Shark]

I can't remember him doing it at all ... I have to look for it.

EDIT: No, can't find it on his Bond page.

Damn man... these are FANTASTIC!

I did in fact do a couple of cues from AVTAK 3 to 4 years ago. They're definitely far from perfect, but work. No clue what was I thinking with all of that compression lol. Here they are once again:



Keep up the great work GK!

Rich

[gkgyver]

The Centrifuge cue:

[deth]

well that was fantastic!

[Professor Dent]

Fantastic indeed. Well done!

[gkgyver]

I wanted to do the Living Daylights cue The Shark mentioned first, but I, ahem, can't find my DVD ...
and I don't want to download the movie of course.

[gkgyver]

Venini Glassworks/Following Goodhead:

[Bond... Raybond]

Very nice. Now I have another two tracks to add to my Moonraker expanded soundtrack (alot of which are your previous releases). If the album/session masters to Moonraker are indeed lost, maybe Nic raine should contact you should he ever do a full re-recording of this score.

Thanks for all your hard work on this project.

[gkgyver]

Perhaps someone can enlighten me why the C naturel in the first 10 seconds of the cue seems to be out of tune in the film recording?

Believe me, it is my dream to record a piece (or several) with a real orchestra.

The Shark, do you have a vid or a MP3 or a rip of the TLD cue you were talking about? I found my TLD DVD ... but it's empty!

[mattjoes]

In Venini Glass Works, the flute should be playing F# E D# D B instead of G# F# E D B.

Have you gotten ahold of some "nasty sounding brass"?

[gkgyver]

Unfortunately, no. Cost cutting.

Octopussy pretitles is on schedule for Sunday.

By the way, how did you develop such a good ear? Do you have perfect pitch?

[Leo R.]

Great work once again!
I'm absolutely stunned.
I think there are some minor errors in the Venini cue, but the rest is spot on!!

If you also manage to do the "Zero G" cue (and Barry's carnival music... :-P) the Moonraker soundtrack will be finally complete.

Thanks again!

[gkgyver]

I think there are some minor errors in the Venini cue, but the rest is spot on!!

Do tell?
I'd be glad to correct it, but apart from the descending flute, I don't hear it.

[mattjoes]

Unfortunately, no. Cost cutting.

Octopussy pretitles is on schedule for Sunday.

By the way, how did you develop such a good ear? Do you have perfect pitch?

I think it's simply that I've been listening to Bond music long enough to be able to tell right away when something is off, like with this cue. Then it's just a matter of figuring out the right notes. Out of curiosity, I did take a test to determine if I have perfect pitch, and answered 7 out of 12 questions correctly.

IIRC, the Octopussy pretitles features two unreleased cues: the gunbarrel, which leads into a theme that plays while Bond parks, and the jet landing music. Are you working on both?

Please do the Checkpoint Charlie cue at some point. I love that one.

Edited by mattjoes, 26 March 2011 - 06:15 PM.

[gkgyver]

IIRC, the Octopussy pretitles features two unreleased cues: the gunbarrel, which leads into a theme that plays while Bond parks, and the jet landing music. Are you working on both?

Does this answer your question?



In between the gunbarrel and the Acrostar cue, there is "Bond Look-Alike" from the OST. I'm still not sure how to handle that.
Would you prefer "Gunbarrel" as well as "Acrostar" as two separate cues, or the two of them combined?
Or should I make one 4 minute track with both cues and "Bond Look-Alike" added?

Is the Checkpoint Charlie cue the one when Bond leaves the Faberge auction?

[Satorious]

IIRC, the Octopussy pretitles features two unreleased cues: the gunbarrel, which leads into a theme that plays while Bond parks, and the jet landing music. Are you working on both?

Does this answer your question?



In between the gunbarrel and the Acrostar cue, there is "Bond Look-Alike" from the OST. I'm still not sure how to handle that.
Would you prefer "Gunbarrel" as well as "Acrostar" as two separate cues, or the two of them combined?
Or should I make one 4 minute track with both cues and "Bond Look-Alike" added?

Is the Checkpoint Charlie cue the one when Bond leaves the Faberge auction?

Nope, that's the Sotherby's cue where the Taxi tails Khan. That's a nice little cue too. The one I think that's being referred to is the scene just after Bond is told about Vijay's death and heads to Germany. He is briefed in a car by M, who tells him "he's on his own". Has a nice play on the Bond theme.

Talking of which - one other lovely little cue from Octopussy is the one where Bond has to sign for the egg as "it's Government property now" and then you also get that wonderful ethnic melody when Bond arrives in India. Love this track - but it's quite ambitious...

Some more great work by the way - (yes something is off about the opening of the Venini cue, but even so - it still sounds great). I look forward to hearing this new cue you are working on.

[Victor Zokas]

First of all, thanks GK for all your work on this. Great stuff. Nic Raine with a whole orchestra (much as I enjoy his work) doesn't capture these cues anywhere near as well as you are doing. As for Octopussy, I'd opt for having the pretitles as one cue including Bond look-alike

[gkgyver]

Does the "Destroying the Globes" cue qualify as an unreleased cue? Or is that tracked from Flight Into Space?

[Leo R.]

In between the gunbarrel and the Acrostar cue, there is "Bond Look-Alike" from the OST. I'm still not sure how to handle that.
Would you prefer "Gunbarrel" as well as "Acrostar" as two separate cues, or the two of them combined?
Or should I make one 4 minute track with both cues and "Bond Look-Alike" added?

Is the Checkpoint Charlie cue the one when Bond leaves the Faberge auction?

Maybe splitting the two cues up might work best. I don't think it's worth the trouble of putting Bond Lookalike in between.
Are you going to mix in the gunbarrel in too, like you did with Moonraker?

Incidentally, Octopussy contains about 20 minutes of unreleased music :-P
Gkgyver, I've got mp3s of the unreleased cues (with SFX of course). If you want them, just PM me.

Edited by Leo R., 28 March 2011 - 10:25 AM.

[mattjoes]

Does this answer your question?

Yes, it does! Sounds good.

In between the gunbarrel and the Acrostar cue, there is "Bond Look-Alike" from the OST. I'm still not sure how to handle that.
Would you prefer "Gunbarrel" as well as "Acrostar" as two separate cues, or the two of them combined?
Or should I make one 4 minute track with both cues and "Bond Look-Alike" added?

I'd prefer them separate.

Is the Checkpoint Charlie cue the one when Bond leaves the Faberge auction?

Nope, that's the Sotherby's cue where the Taxi tails Khan. That's a nice little cue too. The one I think that's being referred to is the scene just after Bond is told about Vijay's death and heads to Germany. He is briefed in a car by M, who tells him "he's on his own". Has a nice play on the Bond theme.

Talking of which - one other lovely little cue from Octopussy is the one where Bond has to sign for the egg as "it's Government property now" and then you also get that wonderful ethnic melody when Bond arrives in India. Love this track - but it's quite ambitious...

Some more great work by the way - (yes something is off about the opening of the Venini cue, but even so - it still sounds great). I look forward to hearing this new cue you are working on.

Yes, that's the cue I meant. The other ones are also worth doing. For the cue with the ethnic melody, you would need a strong french horn.

Does the "Destroying the Globes" cue qualify as an unreleased cue? Or is that tracked from Flight Into Space?

I believe it's tracked, but even if it isn't, it doesn't offer anything new.

[gkgyver]

I couldn't remove the gunshot from the gunbarrel, sorry. Let me know what you think.

[Bond... Raybond]

Well you did well, I couldn't hear any gunshot.

[Leo R.]

I couldn't remove the gunshot from the gunbarrel, sorry. Let me know what you think.

Nice one. Did you track the gunbarrel from "009 gets the knife and Gobinda attacks"? Maybe you could try to mix the first few seconds of the actual gunbarrel into it, and then slowing down the rest a bit.

Btw, what's the nice "The Living Daylights Score 007 Aboard Hercules" cue you have on your youtube channel? Another unreleased track? Pity it is in mono...

[gkgyver]

Btw, what's the nice "The Living Daylights Score 007 Aboard Hercules" cue you have on your youtube channel? Another unreleased track? Pity it is in mono...

That's the cue The Shark mentioned earlier in the thread that he'd like to see done. I uploaded a rip of it so he could tell me if that was the cue he meant.
I'll tackle that anytime soon.

Yes, it's from Gobinda Attacks.
The problem is that the CD quality of the Gobinda Attacks cue doesn't mesh well with the DVD gunbarrel. And believe you me, I've tried!

[Leo R.]

That's the cue The Shark mentioned earlier in the thread that he'd like to see done. I uploaded a rip of it so he could tell me if that was the cue he meant.
I'll tackle that anytime soon.

Ah ok, to me it doesn't sound like a very interesting cue though. Please do all of Octopussy first ;-)

Yes, it's from Gobinda Attacks.
The problem is that the CD quality of the Gobinda Attacks cue doesn't mesh well with the DVD gunbarrel. And believe you me, I've tried!

That's too bad. I loved the way you handled the Moonraker gunbarrel. Well I guess that tracking it from Gobinda attacks is the best solution available.

Looking forward to hearing more!

[Marcato]

The Harp is also with the Horn


You can hear my version here - an old version that i since then have re-done

[gkgyver]

Your ending to the march is incorrect because it has the brass playing an E minor chord together with the harp.

Acrostar cue: