Comments on: Review: New ‘Music of Star Trek’ CD by Prague Philharmonic

By: lostandfound

lostandfound — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:52:05 +0000

Hi all – not sure if this is news to anyone, but I emailed Ron Jones about his scores for ST:TNG a few days back, and he mentioned that FSM were going to be releasing a 12 cd box set of his work for the series.. That seriously blows my mind.. I think he did some of the best work on the show when he was working on it..

By: Ty

Ty — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:59:12 +0000

I suppose there’s a market for this, but I personally don’t get the appeal of re-recordings of Trek music when you can still obtain the original versions of these tracks.

By: T'Cal

T'Cal — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:41:00 +0000

Does anyone know where I can find the recording of TNG theme done on piano? The version I’m looking for was played as a bumper between commercials during the 30th anniversary Trek TV special. It was a slowwed down, almost meloncholy version of the theme song. It sounded fantastic.

By: Kadratis

Kadratis — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:17:24 +0000

Beautiful music!

By: subatoi

subatoi — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:28:51 +0000

Do they only have “Faith of the Heart” or also the end titles for ENT?

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:44:09 +0000

Have a friend I teach with who got to New York the past two years to jam with Les on his birthday at some club. Got to know him personally through that experience. He said they’d jam till 2….3 whatever…and Les would be exhausted but stay afterward and sign autographs for everyone until the sun came up. Pretty cool.

That multitrack story is interesting and has an interesting progression from Bing Crosby to Thomas Dowd to today.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:38:03 +0000

Sorry to veer us further O.T., but +1 for Les Paul.

Always wanted to get over to hear him play. The story of how he invented the multi-tap tape delay is an exercise in genius .

Not one in a thousand can begin to appreciate the impact he’s had on modern production. The his electric guitar is a drop in the bucket compared to his innovation of the multitrack recorder, or sound-on-sound production.

I got out the old Gibson and played some heavy 5ths today in his honor.

By: CarlG

CarlG — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:22:46 +0000

@17, 31: Yeah, it’s too bad, too. If you listen to some of the episodes from TNG’s 1st and 2nd seasons, there were some impressive scores there. “Heart of Glory” and “Q Who” come to mind…

But then they got bland. It figures — one of the few shows on TV that could afford an orchestra and they wouldn’t do anything with it… *facepalm*

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:12:58 +0000

“Pan-Diatonic Wash”. Ha. I’d never heard that before. I always thought of it as sheets of boredom. They say a Coltrane solo was sheets of sound but that was my discription of TNG music.

and since this is the closest thing to a proper thread to leave this….

RIP Les Paul

By: ST EXP

ST EXP — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:40:19 +0000

I’m trying to figure out what is different in this release than the 2003 release… other than an ST11 track.

It appears, based on the listing and brief audio samples, that it’s the same release making you sit through the TMP/TNG theme song over and over on every track.