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Helicopter Fight (Film Version)
This has been assembled from various sources, too numerous to mention, but including 'Tempus Fugit' from the OST as well as a rather masterful use of the BluRay audio by @mattjoes. As you can hear, the cue can segue seamlessly into 'Writing's On The Wall'. Enjoy!
The date you're looking for is November 24th. That's when they'll announce their final batch of releases this year. Either Bond's there or not.
That would be the one which would get me really excited, and I think it's the one everyone on those film boards asks for, but I'm not going to get my hopes up.
I'd give a lot for an expanded MR score.
No hard feelings, my dear.
Come again soon.
Yes - they posted this on the FSM forum:
I know I sound pessimistic, but I'm not holding my breath. You never know though. Tomorrow Never Dies was priced 29.98 last year ^#(^
I am 60 next year so hopefully we will have a few expanded Bond scores for me & everyone in the Bond Music community to celebrate, hopefully before Black Friday 🙏🙏🤞🤞
I can 100% say that EON are not the problem, this has been confirmed a few years ago by MV from LLL Records who said that EON are very supportive of the James Bond Expansions, just be patient more Expanded scores will happen 🤞🤞
I've certainly never heard of 'The Reward' before, that is a curious one. What does it mean with the tracks that say 'with overlay' or 'overdub'? They're playing their previous recording back and adding to it?
https://www.michaelkamen.com/catalogue/licence-to-kill
Considering the Kamen estate has got the LTK recordings at hand (since they posted samples in that page), perhaps LTK is a good candidate for expansion by La La Land. Hopefully early next year!
Interesting to find out the LTK instrumental with Clapton and Flick is just called "The James Bond Theme."
Speaking of LTK, here's a couple of licensed tracks that are heard in the film.
This is the music heard when Bond arrives in Isthmus:
And the Joe Butcher TV show music:
Yeah.
Yeah I was slightly curious if it definitely was the same bit of music that we all heard as I assumed these would all come from the recording sessions for the film whereas that was much earlier, but then I thought it must’ve been the same one. They all talk about Clapton just coming along for a day.
This is a great spot! Thanks for flagging. It'll save me some work on this thread. I'd left Licence To Kill well alone because of how poorly sequenced the soundtrack album is!
I'm guessing "2M4 - Stella's Goodbye" is a typo and should read 'Della' (as in Leiter). I was scratching my head for a moment trying to remember a character called Stella, before I twigged :))
I wonder if the cues are Kamen's titles? It's interesting seeing how many alternate takes there are. It's also cool seeing the long-fabled (and only recently confirmed) Eric Clapton version of the James Bond theme, there in writing.
I'm starting to feel quite hopeful that a complete version of this soundtrack will surface soon. We know that LLL had it on their agenda a few years ago, so there's willing from a label. It's also clear that a lot of work has gone into cataloguing all of Michael Kamen's work recently, so hopefully his Estate are up for it. The unreleased cues on the website really do give me hope. I'm just confused that the audio quality is so bad. I don't know if it's to deter people from ripping them, but the fact that they're only short snippets should do that anyway. I just hope it's not the source material at fault!
There's another mistake in the cue list. Track 3M3 is called Wavekrest Break-In, but Bond actually breaks into Krest's warehouse, not the Wavekrest boat.
Same here. I especially want the music that plays when Bond is on the truck chasing Sanchez. It's a reprise of the music heard in the PTS, when Bond hooks Sanchez's plane to the chopper, but with an electric guitar playing the Bond theme.
I had a look around the website and ran into this:
"A note regarding audio samples: all clips have been reduced in quality and do not represent the condition of the original source material. This site is an educational and informational site about the career and works of Michael Kamen and his many collaborators."
So we can rest assured that LTK sounds better than those samples (probably!).
All this Kamen discussion makes me feel like listening again to his sax concerto.