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 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 5:19 AM   
 By:   Kim Peterson   (Member)

Maybe now will get some decent artwork for the spines!?

...or the rise of cardboard sleeves and digipaks (digipacs, digi-packs, etc.). Concord Music released Indiana Jones: The Soundtracks Collection (which I do not own), enough said. If that is the case (no pun intended), there will be no more Varese/Concord purchases from me. A label my father supported from the 80's and I support when a release is of interest.

 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 6:19 AM   
 By:   ryanpaquet   (Member)

Nowadays buyouts like these are a great thing. I think Varese's move to push vinyl the past few years really caught the eyes of many prospective buyers. The vinyl market has exploded and I'm sure if anything Concord has a bit more financial muscle to push that more.

I'm sure they also recognize that Varese is a major player in both music, and soundtracks - you see their stuff everywhere, a well oiled established machine.

I still expect Varese's 40 Years of Film Music to come out sometime this year without fail - and many other projects that are in the works. That's money in the bank, period.

So congratulations Varese! If this means I can keep buying stuff you produce for another 40 years hear hear.

I wonder if any of the other soundtrack labels have been eyed.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 7:06 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

All these years, I thought Robert Townson was the boss of Varese. I clearly haven't been paying attention.

As for this merger, I really have no opinion this way or that way. I assume it has no influence on the product being released.

 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 7:12 AM   
 By:   LeHah   (Member)

All I know abut Concord is that it's long been a great jazz company. If they've acquired Varese, they have good taste in other forms of music as well, it would seem. Here's hoping!

Literally this. Concord is well-known for its elaborate and brilliant jazz albums.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 7:36 AM   
 By:   John B. Archibald   (Member)

I stopped ordering directly from Varese after multiple screw-ups they made in shipping my orders.

After taking my money, there were long delays before I received any product. At the time, I was living in San Diego; so shipments shouldn’t have taken so long, especially as I was reading posts on FSM from people much farther away who had already received theirs.

Once, I even received somebody else’s order! The address on the box was mine, but the order and the packing slip inside were for someone else. When I called Varese to discuss this, they insisted I mail the shipment, at my own expense, to this other person!

Which I actually did, hoping it would expedite shipment of mine.

But it didn’t.

So I will never order directly from Varese again.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 8:28 AM   
 By:   roy phillippe   (Member)

http://deadline.com/2018/02/concord-music-acquires-film-soundtrack-score-varese-sarabande-1202280825/

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/concord-music-buys-movie-music-label-varese-sarabande/


Thoughts? I'm sure you all will have some...


Perhaps they will go back and restore the dulcimer on "The Thorn Birds". Doubtful but it would be nice.

 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 8:34 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I stopped ordering directly from Varese after multiple screw-ups they made in shipping my orders.

After taking my money, there were long delays before I received any product. At the time, I was living in San Diego; so shipments shouldn’t have taken so long, especially as I was reading posts on FSM from people much farther away who had already received theirs.

Once, I even received somebody else’s order! The address on the box was mine, but the order and the packing slip inside were for someone else. When I called Varese to discuss this, they insisted I mail the shipment, at my own expense, to this other person!

Which I actually did, hoping it would expedite shipment of mine.

But it didn’t.

So I will never order directly from Varese again.


Ordered from Varese, they forgot to ship my order. Ordered from LLL, and got my package in two days!

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 8:56 AM   
 By:   stormcenter   (Member)

Hey maybe now we'll finally see "The Swamp Thing" and "The Bedroom Window" released on CD.

 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 10:30 AM   
 By:   Mike Esssss   (Member)

Keep in mind that part of what Concord is purchasing is goodwill, most of which is made up of the Varese brand. The brand is a known quantity in the market, and Concord knows that to wring value from their investment they need to lean into, not shy away from, what's made Varese successful for so many years. So I wouldn't expect any big changes on the release front. Maybe we'll see more.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 10:31 AM   
 By:   1977   (Member)

And hopefully, a little bit faster before CD plants stop manufacturing, pretty please....

Yavar


Darn, is that really on the table? Do we have any idea when it may happen?

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 10:32 AM   
 By:   PFK   (Member)

Hope the new owners have more love for scores from the past than the previous owner. Varese was the greatest label in the late 70's through the early years of the 21st Century. I wish for them a "rebirth".
Furthermore, I hope they will make deals with major studios like Universal and Warner Bros.




My thoughts exactly Cody. I haven't bought much from Varese in the past 10 years or so. I hope the "new" Varese will issue scores from the 1940s to 2018. Something for everyone!

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 10:35 AM   
 By:   Roy Donga   (Member)

Darren Blumenthal has been running Varèse for the last 5 years, what on earth did he do?

Have you met him in person? I have, he's a passionate man. Why are some of you being so disrespectful???


Mr Popular, it was just an honest question! Like others I thought it was Robert T who was the boss. I'd never heard him mentioned before, and am always interested in the inner workings of our favourite labels. By the way, I don't know who you are either Mr. P.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 11:02 AM   
 By:   lacoq   (Member)

http://deadline.com/2018/02/concord-music-acquires-film-soundtrack-score-varese-sarabande-1202280825/

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/concord-music-buys-movie-music-label-varese-sarabande/


Thoughts? I'm sure you all will have some...


Perhaps they will go back and restore the dulcimer on "The Thorn Birds". Doubtful but it would be nice.


That'll be the day! By the way Mr. Phillippe, I purchased the Thorn Birds: A Case Study Of A Film Score when it first came out and I read through it quite often. Always wanted to say thank you so much for putting this great book together, and guiding Mr. Mancini's concept over the finish line. How great it would be if similar books were written spotlighting a score by Williams, Goldsmith, Morricone, Legrand and others......

 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 11:12 AM   
 By:   orbital   (Member)

I wish you all the happiness in the world. You need it more than anyone on this board. I hope you can find some form of happiness that isn’t putting people down to feel superior on a message board that is dedicated to a love and passion we all share, film music.

Darren is and was a good boss. Honored to have worked with him.


Well put, Peter. Whatever this acquisition means all the best to you personally.

 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 11:18 AM   
 By:   WagnerAlmighty   (Member)

I stopped ordering directly from Varese after multiple screw-ups they made in shipping my orders.

After taking my money, there were long delays before I received any product. At the time, I was living in San Diego; so shipments shouldn’t have taken so long, especially as I was reading posts on FSM from people much farther away who had already received theirs.

Once, I even received somebody else’s order! The address on the box was mine, but the order and the packing slip inside were for someone else. When I called Varese to discuss this, they insisted I mail the shipment, at my own expense, to this other person!

Which I actually did, hoping it would expedite shipment of mine.

But it didn’t.

So I will never order directly from Varese again.


That sucks. I've ordered twice directly from Varese, but the only problem I had was with the lack of shipment notification (tracking would have been nice too). The packages got to me in a pretty quick amount of time.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 2:32 PM   
 By:   hyperdanny   (Member)

Is this the same Concord that bought and ruined Telarc a few years ago?

Different company and not the same management. If you want to come at me with this nonsense, your right, but the facts are facts. Under their current ownership they buy razor and tie, leave them alone...rounder, leave them alone, bicycle music, leave them alone.



That's very good and comforting to know, because to tell you the truth, when I started reading the thread I thought rightaway about poor Telarc , which sadly has been debased&dumbed down beyond recognition.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 3:06 PM   
 By:   MCurry29   (Member)

Good Luck Varese!! I still am one who loves ya! Never had any shipping problems in 5 years of ordering direct which I always do, because their CD's are less expensive on the home site and of course to better support the label. So many people complain about Varese releases it is astounding. Varese has released a ton great scores over the past year and although some of the 'new'-current releases don't float with me, a lot of them do-case in point Johan Soderqvist's- The Limehouse Golem.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 3:12 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

No one has yet answered this question: If Robert Townson was never the boss of Varese, then what was his role?

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 3:20 PM   
 By:   TJ   (Member)

No one has yet answered this question: If Robert Townson was never the boss of Varese, then what was his role?

He's a producer employee, just like haineshisway used to be.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 3:31 PM   
 By:   haineshisway   (Member)

No one has yet answered this question: If Robert Townson was never the boss of Varese, then what was his role?

He's a producer employee, just like haineshisway used to be.


Correct. Varese, up until Cutting Edge was first owned and run by Chris Kuchler, Dub Taylor, and Tom Null - the latter two went away within a few years and then it was Chris's company alone. Bob was never a boss of anything but his own division, soundtracks, in the same way I was boss of my own division and Cary Mansfield the boss of his.

 
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