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Bugger.
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Conti's "Victory" is one title I've been wanting for years (his best score IMO) and I hope that will be released soon by some label.
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Piranha is a great little score - that 'Premonition' cue is a terrific mini suite of theme and variations, climaxing with a strong brass chorale of the main theme. Other cues feature faux-classical strings, a bit of funky 70's processed fluting, a groovy acoustic guitar pop interlude 'Summer Dreams' - in fact thinking about it, this score is a really nice sister score to Carrie. There is at least one strong action piece, 'Piranhas Among Us' if memory serves, with heavy brass and string writing, and a bassline that has been stolen by other composers *cough Richard Band in Mutant cough*
As for Roger's 'Sly' hint, my first thought was Lock Up by Bill Conti, but thinking about how the MGM gates have recently been opened (kudos to Chris Neel, you rule!!!!), I'm thinking FIST will be the one. If so, this is a MUST have - powerful score, awesome performance by the London Symphony, and that's just the 30 minute LP - who knows what the Intrada boys have dug up.
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When we did the first limited edition BANDOLERO! CD (and I can't remember when that was...it must be at least 10 years now), we only sold 1500 copies out of the limited run of 3000. So when it came time to set a volume for this release, that seemed to be what the market would bear.
Bandolero! is a terrific Goldsmith score. As a kid, a audio taped the movie when it came on TV to get the music. It was one of the first scores that made me appreciate Jerry Goldsmith. Some years later, I got the Project3 release of the music. When Intrada released the re-mastered Bandolero! on CD, it had the same content as the original LP release, though it was better mastered than the previous CD releases. I skipped on that one, always (faintly) hoping that maybe some day someone would release an expanded edition, as some top cues, like "Procession to the Gallows" or the tinkering saloon piano music from the beginning of the film, were still missing from that CD.
Now I'm looking forward to the new INTRADA release, which seems to be definitive.
I believe that this CD might have sold out quicker than the previous one because
a) unlike earlier releases, it is a comprehensive, definitive edition of Bandolero! and
b) more soundtrack collectors are hooked up to the Internet than there were in 1993.
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I'm sorry, but I don't buy the arguments. The earlier BANDOLERO! releases have been long out of print. So to say that in the intervening 11 years since the INTRADA release's first appearance and the disappearance of the first two issues that every possible collector had a copy is not reasonable.
Also, the decision isn't based just on BANDOLERO! v1.o sales, but we've released enough albums to know what market demand is. I don't think anyone who REALLY wants this expanded BANDOLERO! will have to do without one.
Roger
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I'm sorry, but I don't buy the arguments. The earlier BANDOLERO! releases have been long out of print. So to say that in the intervening 11 years since the INTRADA release's first appearance and the disappearance of the first two issues that every possible collector had a copy is not reasonable.
Indeed, Roger, but that's hardly what I said.
Also, the decision isn't based just on BANDOLERO! v1.o sales, but we've released enough albums to know what market demand is. I don't think anyone who REALLY wants this expanded BANDOLERO! will have to do without one.
But don't you think that this release has sold out so fast simply because more soundtrack afficionados have Internet now than ten years ago? There's no doubt that you have enough experience to have a good idea of how many copies of Bandolero! you can sell, but I'd be surprised if this release hasn't sold out quicker now than it could have ten years ago.
As far as every interested collector getting a copy, well, there are always a few who lose out; that's life. Not everybody checks the Internet for soundtrack releases all the time. I would have loved to get a copy of Morricone's The Island; alas, when I found out about Varese's Club Edition release, it was already sold out. Tough luck, I guess. Anyway, one way or another, I'm glad Bandolero! is finally gets an expanded edition.
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Goldsmith's "First Blood"?
That has already been released, first by Intrada, then by Varese (same content). Is there any music missing on these releases?
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BANDOLERO is a classic which not only appeals to Goldsmith- but also to Western-collectors.
So pressing only 1500 is, well, under-optimistic.
Mika
But there are no monsters, dinosaurs, or space ships in it, so you sell a thousand copies less right there. 
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La La Land hit the nail on the head. If you press 1000 or 1500 of something you are hitting the die hard collectors, the ones who pretty much buy anything called a soundtrack. When you press 3000 it really has to be a special title in order to sell out. This is what they've all discovered. And, yes, the eBay speculators started coming out in force about eight months ago (what was the first of the 1000 pressing titles in the last year - The Island?). The Island sold out immediately, the speculators took note, and now, somehow in the last eight months the limited edition business has taken a whole new turn.
And let me tell you, the speculators are not buying "several" copies (maybe they are from Intrada) - they are sometimes buying fifty or more copies. That's why these things are selling out so quickly. If you have ten speculators who buy fifty copies each of a 1000 unit release, well, I think you can do the arithmetic.
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