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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: Michael.J.Lewis' score for 92 in the Shade (1975)   Last Post   Posted:   Jun 30, 2015 - 1:14 AM     By:   Bambole   (Member) I have been playing this score in my car for ages (maybe atleast a year and a half). Every time I listen to it, it takes me back to some idyllic time that I spent as a kid in a village stream with my cousins or when I sat for ages in a bar and got drunk as a youth. The score invokes visions of lazy days on a beach or cycling near the coast. The scenes of Peter Fonda and Margot Kidder riding a cycle and walking around are perfect when the score is played at the beginning of this very strange film. Lewis uses a lot of country music in the score. The stand out tracks are the "Main title", "Bonita", "Hanging Out", Bone fish" and "Key West Sunset". I recommend both the score and the oddball film about vicious competition between three tourist fishing boat owners. I am thinking about getting the book by Thomas McGuane (who directed the film). Any other fans of this score?    Posted:   Jun 30, 2015 - 1:31 AM     By:   bobbengan   (Member) Personally, I place it in the same category as ON THE THIRD DAY and THE NAKED FACE as scores by this wonderful composer that I personally just am not into. I prefer his sweeping orchestral side with big lyrical themes. Now that said it does, indeed, palpably evoke lazy, humid summer days in the Florida backwater. Strong observation indeed!    Posted:   Jun 30, 2015 - 12:27 PM     By:   MisterE71   (Member) Whoa! Talk about coincidence. This just came up on my iPod this morning. It caught me off guard. I was expecting a noir-ish broodfest (not sure why) and instead the first few tracks brought Ennio Morricone by way of Henry Mancini. There are some cool western touches, a melody that reminds me of "Moon River" if the sheet music got wet, and several tunes that I expect to break out into some kind of vintage 1970's country-pop hit. It's definitely different! Some of these hoedowns, along with the fishy track titles, make me wonder if Warren Oates spends half the movie comically trying to reel in an over-sized catch while Peter Fonda looks on and laughs. I'm only halfway through, but look forward to finishing later this afternoon.    Posted:   Jul 8, 2015 - 3:01 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) I've just purchased this score - totally unknown to me (as per the film) - being a double-header with my chosen buy: The Man Who Haunted Himself. The style seems typical for this composer, albeit the C&W cues are certainly different (I do have only a limited collection of his other works). One full play-through, so far, and no regrets about acquiring this score. But query: are the two tracks Key West Sunset and Sunset Reprise (2'09") exactly the same? It seems silly to repeat the track as the score would run approx. 35' without the duplication ... but so far, I can't distinguish any alternate instrumentation/orchestration. For the price, this double-header is recommended. Mitch    Posted:   Jul 8, 2015 - 5:39 PM     By:   .   (Member) I'm not keen on the soundtrack CD, but I do REALLY like the moody harmonica/guitar track "Key West Sundown" (as opposed to Key West Sunset) that represents the film on the 2CD Lewis concert set. There's just the one track (5:16) from this film, but excellent performance and sound. Reminds me a bit of the Omega Man theme in places. Nice improvised feel. Here is an excerpt of the slower early part (it becomes much more animated in the latter part not heard here): http://www.bluediamondmusic.com/92_in_the_shade.htm    Posted:   Jul 8, 2015 - 6:57 PM     By:   .   (Member) LEWIS ON 92 IN THE SHADE: "I seemed to have become Elliot Kastner's resident composer and he felt I'd done some great work. He produced this film, and incidentally, 92 is apparently the temperature at which most murders are commited. The picture was shot at Key West, with Margot Kidder, Peter Fonda, Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton, with post production at Pinewood. The director, Thomas McGuane, said I might be a great composer but I wasn't a 'Red-Neck', so I became a 'Red-Neck' on Elliot's instructions, and we formed a band rather than an orchestra. It was all done as a country and western score and it worked fabulously well, and all I wrote was the top lines, chord symbols, and every eight bars I would say 'Harmonica', 'Violin' or 'Guitar' etc. When we did "Key West Sundown" in Los Angeles, I got Tommy Morgan on harmonica, Carl Verheyen on guitar, and again all I gave them was the top line. And they took just 25 minutes for this one take, and I think the track is an absolute classic!."     General Discussion: Michael.J.Lewis' score for 92 in the Shade (1975)    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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