PM me for more instructions. I also need to confess that I never made a lossless version of this. So this would have to count as a temp version.
_“I mean, if a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.”
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Here’s a something for all you H.S. Thompson and "Fear and loathing fans out there!..
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS - The Complete Soundtrack
(nearly called the Criterion Soundtrack)
It’s the full soundtrack to “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” with several new tracks and more than a handfull handpicked dialogue sequences from the movie.
Backstory:
The soundtrack for “Fear and loathing in las vegas” is a almost brilliant musical interpretation of the trip that Gonzo and Duke undertake as they head into the heart of the American dream (or nightmare depending).
For anyone who’ve read the original book it stands out that H.S. Thompson didn’t concern himself with the sounds of the times to tell his story. “Sympathy for the Devil” does appear in the book as a title but otherwise the rest was left to the capable hands of Terry Gilliam and his team of musical advisors.
The original soundtrack from 1998 consisted of the following:
1. Big Brother and the Holding Company - Combination of the Two
2. Brewer & Shipley - One Toke over the Line
3. Tom Jones - She’s A Lady
4. The Yardbirds - For Your Love
5. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
6. A Drug Score (Part 1)
7. The Youngbloods - Get Together
8. Three dog night - Mama told me not to come
9. Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
10. Booker T and the MGs - Time is Tight
11. Perry Como - Magic Moments
12. A Drug Score (Part 2)
13. Debbie Reynolds - Tammy
14. A Drug Score (Part 3)
15. Buffalo Springfield - Expecting to Fly
16. The Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas
With a complete running time of almost an hour the original soundtrack CD omits several tracks that could be considered instrumental to the telling of the story. Strangely, and most likely due to copyright issues, is the omission of The Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash. But even “Ball and Chain” by Big Brother and the Holding Company is lacking from the finish article. These to name only a few. In fact it can be concluded that once the soundtrack is recomposed it is twice as long in running length and it contains twice as many tracks.
My first version, for personal use, consisted of the reintroduction of “Somebody to Love” by Jefferson Airplane and the before mentioned “Ball and Chain” by Big Brother and the Holding Company and The Rolling Stones’ “Jumping Jack Flash”. Back then I worked them in to the mix individually using soundbites from the DVD release of the movie.
The second, this, version is a almost complete re-edit of the full soundtrack. I used the IMDB notes (which off course is the movie credits) as a guideline and once again I used soundbites from the movie.
The Complete Tracklist is:
CD 1:
1. Lennon Sisters - My Favourite Things#
2. Big Brother and the Holding Company - Combination of the Two*
3. Brewer & Shipley - One Toke over the Line*
4. Elmer Bernstein - Thinking of Baby
5. Combustible Edison - Spy Vs. Spy
6. The Out-Islanders - Moon Mist
7. Beck, Bogart & Appice - Lady
8. Tom Jones - She’s A Lady*
9. Robert Goulet - My Love Forgive Me
10. Richard Wagner - The Ride of the Valkyries
11. Tom Jones - It’s not Unusual.
12. Wayne Newton - Strangers in the Night
13. The Hollyridge Strings - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
14. The Yardbirds - For Your Love**
15. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit*
16. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
17. A Drug Score (Part 1)$
18. The Youngbloods - Get Together*</span>
CD 2:
19. Three dog night - Mama told me not to come*
20. Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again*
21. Booker T and the MGs - Time is Tight*
22. Frank Sinatra - You’re Getting to Be the Habit with Me
23. Perry Como - Magic Moments*
24. Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy
25. A Drug Score (Part 2)*
26. Debbie Reynolds - Tammy*
27. A Drug Score (Part 3)¤
28. Big Brother and the Holding Company - Ball and Chain
29. A Drug Score (Part 4)¤
30. Buffalo Springfield - Expecting to Fly*
31. Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
32. The Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas*
33. Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the devil@
Legend:
** Track edited for consitency based on original soundtrack CD release. (Geffen Records - GEFD-25218)
¤ "A Drug Score (Part 3) is split into two segments.
@ Not present in movie nor on soundtrack.
$ Track partially edited from movie soundtrack.
There are still omissions from the full movie soundtracks, as well as inclusions of none-listed soundtrack tracks.
Most obvious is the inclusion of “Sympathy for the Devil”. This track is only referenced to in the dialogue and most likely this reference is only inspired by the title of the song. A cover version of the track made an appearance on the 1996 audiobook release. I decided to include it because it gives a twist at the end, besides being a brilliant song.
Also added and not referenced to in the movie is Richard Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries”. Most likely this track should be considered a sound effect guessing from the fact that the track was omitted from the tracklisting at the end of the movie. Still it holds a prominent spot and has a relevance to the story.
The omissions are the Circus music played as background to the Circus Circus scenes. This is mainly because I don’t know titles and performs. Besides the Circus Circus music would weigh down the soundtrack considerably. There are at least three background tracks which would have to be represented and when played in direct running order these could easily stop the album dead. This is why there is no circus music.
Despite being strict when it comes to source-material I’ve also chosen to alter a few tracks on the project.
This mostly apply to the Drug Score tracks. “Drug Score 1 (Acid Spill)” is now partially built from the movie version. The reason for this is purely indulgent. I always loved the “whaaats the trouble?” dialogue for the scene and I really wanted to include this is in my version.
For that reason the track is built up using the soundbite and the intro from the movie then crossfading into the CD version.
The second cut is "Drug Score 3 (Flashbacks) which has been split into two individual tracks. Having seen the movie you also notice that “Ball and Chain” appear in the middle of the flashback scene. For that reason I chose to split the track and add “Ball and Chain” in the middle.
But ok…ehm…that’s what I did and how it was done! Theres probably much more I could say but I think it would take up your time.
What’s the score here? What comes next? Who wants to hear it?
Personally I highly doubt the swedish translation will be any different from any other subtitled language. For sure I will not result in hilariousness like "Backstroke of the West".
But tell you what Puggo...You are welcome to send me a PM if you need a native Swede to look at it ;)
LOL
And sometimes my command of the english language fail me! Which is normal for a Swede!
cap said:is whether Lucasfilm should hire Adywan for his technical skills, but if you’re going to ask that question, then I have to ask Adywan: would you want to work for somebody like George Lucas?
Well Cap...It was obviously meant as a compliment to Adywan. I am fully aware that much of this has been a combined effort of the entire forum but I do believe it takes a special breed of man to pull something like this through and from the looks of it Adywan is one of these men.
When I state that I think Adywan should work for Lucasfilm its basically saying that "I wish that Mr. Lucas would listen to the voice of the fans" and I firmly believe that Adywan as produced a significantly different edit than I have ever seen before. That in itself is something that I personally think that George Lucas could use. A no-man, someone who rethinks the whole project.
With that said I hope that I have explained my meaning.
Do we know who made it?
Who made the edit that can be found on "Return of the Ewok and other little people"?
Righty-o! My thought exactly!
Question is: How many are on this ball? Wouldn't want to start working on what someone else has been doing all along. Which is presently considered the best version of the Behind the Magic material?
Question 2: Who has the best master? I really don't want to begin working from a encoded m2v file.
Question 3: Framerate? 12 fps?
*Correction*
How far did angel come?
Why not start substituting fixed objects in the scene? Skies, buildings and so forth?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g7bZ88gSvE
Thats about what I can manage in 3½ hours. and a lot of the minor corrections are not visible anymore since its compressed (damn youtube).
I really don't want to spend more time on ewok since it wouldn't lead to anything more than a big waste of my time.
You seem to have good focus. I'm not in here on a regular basis. Been a while for me. But I have read about Puggos 35 mm project. Has that gotten anywhere? I guess he would be the one in the most need at the moment.
I'm much abliged for your offer to help. But actually I am the one who is offering up my help.
And I know there are more out there who would be intrested in a combined effort.
But if you ask me I would love to look at the cut kissing scene from ESB and see if it can be spruced up.
Mayby Adyway could use it!
Wow will express my thoughts. I also see you did some color correction on it.
This seems to me to mean that we are on the same level here. We both know exactly how long and painstaking the process is. Its kinda like animation when it comes to output. You rarely manage to do more than a minute or so per day (if your good).
How far along are you on the project above?
@ffffff. Combustion is a good program. For mac users I recommend Shake but in general software only get smaller differences in the video such as blobs and spots. Problem lies in larger scratches and smudges and for these its the job for an artist. Its basic retouching.
I'm working on a demo at the moment and I can see it will take time. I grabbed a few seconds from the "Return of the Ewok" feature that OCP released. I can't work on the telecine bits. The just isn't enough information to go on. And by the looks of it it wouldn't result in anything magical. But then there is the Hyperspace clips which obviously have so much higher quality and in these cases the result is much more visible.
I'm going to post a before and after of one specific frame which I just did:
I made this using bits and pieces of information from the frame just before.
Obviously this process is so time consuming that it should be done with very specific purpose.
For instance...If someone were to find the original tape for the above mentioned "Return of the Ewok" then I would definately consider doing some heavy dustbusting on it.
I don't know if Puggo ever got around to completing his 35 mm digitization but this would also be one of those projects that I would consider putting down serious time on. Just for the heck of it.
@Vaderios I'll post my Ewok demo as soon as I am satisfied with it!
I suspected as much for the audio part. I'm just astounded that the sound was so varying.
Especially considering that the whole movie and its soundtrack has been redone so many times by Lucasfilm and Skywalker sound! Normally I see the movie on the TV with my surround system on so the differences doesn't stand out that much. But when I saw your edit I saw it on my laptop with a pair of decent headphones. Thats why it struck me as odd. But then again...these movies never stop to amaze me. Theres always something new to discover.
As for the Aurabesh Effect. I suppose your right. For me it all comes down to knowing the storyline by heart. I don't need the visual reference to know what the timer says. I guess that goes for most of us. But your choice makes perfect sense. I would actually consider screening your version to a newcomer or a child and in that instance, the visual representation of the countdown makes perfect sense (like I stated before). I guess it stood out considering the work you did in order to " Removed the writings" on the torture droid. Which is understandable considering its a normal syringe on the model.
Pardon me for asking but what software are you using? I noted Lightwave for the 3D modelling.
At the moment its all stuffed away. But I'd might just make a sample.
*Edit*
Only problem is to figure out what to work on and get a decent source. Dustbusting a reencoded m2v file seems stupid!
don’t know if this is completely the right forum for it but I have an idea! (Bravo?)
I’ve dabbled with Dustbusting from time to time.
Thats manual retouching of video images to remove scratches and other damages and artifacts for those who didn’t know. I’ve found that later versions of photoshop support direct editing of video (quicktime, if I am not mistaking.) This truly gives you the full potential of the photoshop tool, such as the patch tool and the clone stamp, as opposed to working in motion editing such as with adobe after effects. I’m not saying After Effects is bad but it is somewhat unpredictable.
Either way… Why not gather up a gang of potential Dustbusters. I suspect theres more people out here who know this skill and would be ready to work collaborately on projects provided that the source material is portioned out.
Or is it all a pipedream?
/Alex (Sweden)
I just saw this release and I am stunned! Goes without saying but why ain't Adywan employed as a lucasfilm creative consultant? I can't wait to see the upcoming releases.
But I have three questions though, one of these may not be relevant to this thread but I'll write it.
- How come the sound quality vary so much?
I know that you (Adywan) used several bits of audio from other sources. But has anyone noted exactly how vayring the dialogue is? Try listening in at the scenes shot in the cockpit of the Millenium Falcon. There major differences to the room sound from dialogue to dialogue. I suppose its on-set audio vs. ADR. I'm just wondering if this contributed to a lesser mix of one source or if this is present on all versions of ANH.
And if so...would it be possible to improve this? Any Audio Wiz-Kids out there?
- Why use our system of numbers in the movie when all lettering have been replaced with aurabesh?
It's just a consideration that so much time goes in to converting all references to english writting and replacing it with aurabesh (which is extremely effectfull) but when we get to the Death Star coming in on Yavin there is a, sorry to say it, generic timer counting down? This is by the way the only thing I reacted to. Sure I wish there'd been even more ships in the Death Star battle but I can fully understand how heavy such a effect sequence might be.
So if the previous question didn't tick Adywan off....
- Do you need any help with the upcoming projects?
I'd love to assist and have a decent background in digital effects, mostly compositing.
