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Off-topic, but...

Speaking of Star Wars, somewhere (I haven't seen it in 20 years...must be
packed away...) I have an LP that has highlights of the now "Episode IV"
soundtrack all performed on pipe organ. Big, heavy organ blasting out those
John Williams themes. I remember liking it, but then again I was half as old
(& wise?) as I now am. I wonder how it would hold up.

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..... I've also got a synth version on the music from Star Wars that's
pretty execrable, bonus points for having some of the worst fuzz guitar
sounds ever committed to tape, sounds like a bad transistor fuzzbox DI'd to
tape, if you could imagine a marshall stack, then take the inverse of that.
Beautiful stuff, indeed...

Hi Ken & others who may still be interested!

Ah, the John Rose Star Wars LP. Delos DEL/F 25450 (scary that I could find
it on short notice).

It was recorded on a very substantial Austin instrument (having more than
8000 pipes, according to the liner notes) at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in
Hartford, Ct. I remember some of it as being *very* impressive, and quite a
bit of it being a bit more stilted than I'd have liked. I have it here, but
my better turntable is packed away at the moment, so I'll reserve my
'current' opinion.

It was fairly well recorded and the organ was quite impressive sounding, so
the big numbers could shake the floor quite well. Some of the more etherial
stuff was quite nice as too. The 'Cantina Band' track didn't swing at all,
though!  ;-)

Frank in Baltimore

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From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:ken.tkacs@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:55 PM
To: motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject: FW: [motm] Re: Back-burner Moog record project



Off-topic, but...

Speaking of Star Wars, somewhere (I haven't seen it in 20 years...must be
packed away...) I have an LP that has highlights of the now "Episode IV"
soundtrack all performed on pipe organ. Big, heavy organ blasting out those
John Williams themes. I remember liking it, but then again I was half as old
(& wise?) as I now am. I wonder how it would hold up.