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 Posted:   Aug 23, 2015 - 11:38 PM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)

I was listening to JAWS today on Netsil and during the first shark attack cue (track 5 on the 2000 Decca CD) I heard a voice whisper, "Eat my shorts, Jerry." Was J-dub in on it or was there a practical joker in the control room?

Any other examples of film score backmasking?

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 1:27 AM   
 By:   GoblinScore   (Member)

Your honor, I ask the court to refer to the 11:02 mark of Silva Screen's THE BROOD suite by the esteemed Howard Shore, to hear a naughty female string player whisper "Steve", presumably signaling another player? (I hear the JAWS back mask too, for the record).

Turn up the volume to hear this & don't worry, not a jump scare prank. ...scared the hell out if me, since I was a teen when I first heard it - I lived in headphones, usually up loud most of the time. I Thought someone was in my room!!!

The prosecution rests, your honor....no, literally, way past bedtime!
-Sean

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 4:36 PM   
 By:   GoblinScore   (Member)

Dammit, sorry Josh, every time I bring this up, it kills the thread... .

 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 5:10 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

It's just that we're having a hard time coming up with other examples. Unless Jerry breifly being heard humming along with a cue from "Rudy" counts.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 5:10 PM   
 By:   chris123   (Member)

I never bother listening to scores backwards

 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 5:16 PM   
 By:   Trekfan   (Member)

Your honor, I ask the court to refer to the 11:02 mark of Silva Screen's THE BROOD suite by the esteemed Howard Shore, to hear a naughty female string player whisper "Steve", presumably signaling another player? (I hear the JAWS back mask too, for the record).

Heh, I've never heard that and found it and you're right, pretty eerie/creepy in context although the signal to a co-player was innocuous enough. Here it is with timecode to the moment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZtkX9lA-2Q&t=11m1s

 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 5:22 PM   
 By:   Trekfan   (Member)

Any other examples of film score backmasking?

I'm not sure this counts in terms of what you're looking for, as it isn't actually heard *during* the music, but I thought I recalled reading in some old FSM issue pages that an early pressing of Mark Mancina's "Twister" score had a few seconds before the main title cut of the conductor saying something like "We're going straight in" and the CD timecode on some players interpreted that and would display it as negative 3 seconds, negative 2 seconds, negative 1 second, then zero is when the cue actually started. A mastering/editing mistake, apparently, rather than a deliberate "Easter Egg" bonus content. A subsequent pressing fixed it apparently. If I'm not remembering this quite correctly, maybe a Mancina fan or someone who's witnessed this behavior on their copy can chime in.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 5:23 PM   
 By:   GoblinScore   (Member)

Vindication is delicious, woo hoo!

Your right Justin, hard to find aside from chair rustles. I was baffled for years on The Brood, thought it was bleed through but there is no Steve in that film!

-Sean

 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 5:27 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I got some sessions of people talking while not playing a cue. One is from "Star Trek: First Contact" where it sounds like Jerry saying rather annoyed something like, "You want to get back to work, Joel?"

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 5:34 PM   
 By:   Jim Cleveland   (Member)

Any other examples of film score backmasking?

I'm not sure this counts in terms of what you're looking for, as it isn't actually heard *during* the music, but I thought I recalled reading in some old FSM issue pages that an early pressing of Mark Mancina's "Twister" score had a few seconds before the main title cut of the conductor saying something like "We're going straight in" and the CD timecode on some players interpreted that and would display it as negative 3 seconds, negative 2 seconds, negative 1 second, then zero is when the cue actually started. A mastering/editing mistake, apparently, rather than a deliberate "Easter Egg" bonus content. A subsequent pressing fixed it apparently. If I'm not remembering this quite correctly, maybe a Mancina fan or someone who's witnessed this behavior on their copy can chime in.


Actually, it was "Okay now we can't be too slow to start", then a bunch of people "shooshing" one another...then into that GLORIOUS piece of music! I have that CD!

 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 5:43 PM   
 By:   Trekfan   (Member)

Actually, it was "Okay now we can't be too slow to start", then a bunch of people "shooshing" one another...then into that GLORIOUS piece of music! I have that CD!

Heh, terrific! I wonder if a later pressing is distinguished by a small numerical code under the UPC barcode as can be sometimes the case. I don't have the disc but might be interested to pick it up - it likely can be found all over eBay or Discogs or the like, but I'm not sure there's an easy way to identify this particular (first) pressing with this "mistake". Got any unique packaging details or the numeric code around the CD's inner ring that I could ask would-be sellers to check for me to match it up?

 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 5:56 PM   
 By:   mastadge   (Member)

Actually, it was "Okay now we can't be too slow to start", then a bunch of people "shooshing" one another...then into that GLORIOUS piece of music! I have that CD!

That wasn't intentional? I love that opening. Now if it happened between cues it would bug me, but right at the beginning of the disc it's kind of hilarious.

 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 7:31 PM   
 By:   Trekfan   (Member)

That wasn't intentional? I love that opening. Now if it happened between cues it would bug me, but right at the beginning of the disc it's kind of hilarious.

I'm fairly sure I remembered reading in FSM's pages that the label corrected that issue in a second pressing of the CD and that they would exchange the "faulty" original pressing disc for anyone who complained, and it was verified the subsequent pressing didn't have this chatter before the start of the cue - and FSM editorially remarking along the lines of "Personally we think it's kinda cool" or something like that. Anyone a big enough fan of that score that they have more than one pressing wink - or their copy that they picked up at some point they can verify does not have the few seconds of chatter?

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 24, 2015 - 9:11 PM   
 By:   Maestro Sartori   (Member)

Actually on the Jaws, it wasn't track 5 (nothing there), but I did hear this weird message on track 12: "People who post in forums always lie."

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 25, 2015 - 2:07 AM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

I was listening to JAWS today on Netsil and during the first shark attack cue (track 5 on the 2000 Decca CD) I heard a voice whisper, "Eat my shorts, Jerry." Was J-dub in on it or was there a practical joker in the control room?

Any other examples of film score backmasking?


I'm not hearing it. What's the exact time on the disc? (Or am I just extremely gullible?)

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 25, 2015 - 2:11 AM   
 By:   Francis   (Member)

On the Varese edition of Poltergeist II's "Late Call" at 1:24 you can hear John Williams' cell phone heckling Goldsmith's recording session.

 
 Posted:   Aug 25, 2015 - 9:43 AM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)

I was listening to JAWS today on Netsil and during the first shark attack cue (track 5 on the 2000 Decca CD) I heard a voice whisper, "Eat my shorts, Jerry." Was J-dub in on it or was there a practical joker in the control room?

Any other examples of film score backmasking?


I'm not hearing it. What's the exact time on the disc? (Or am I just extremely gullible?)


Yeah, this thread was created in jest and admittedly wasn't very funny (Netsil = listen spelled backward, backmasking = hidden messages in the recording that can only be heard when played backward, etc.), but the replies have been pretty entertaining!

 
 Posted:   Aug 25, 2015 - 10:53 AM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)

Now if you were an unscrupulous soul with a business mentality, you could market some of these as spook-racket 'messages from beyond'.

Is there anyone here called 'Steve'? I have someone, a woman ... she's trying to communicate ... we picked her up on the ghost-recorder ...

 
 Posted:   Aug 25, 2015 - 11:08 AM   
 By:   the_limited_edition   (Member)

I recall the old Tony Thomas LP of The Searchers where you can distinctly hear several people talking in the background.

 
 Posted:   Aug 25, 2015 - 1:32 PM   
 By:   other tallguy   (Member)

That wasn't intentional? I love that opening. Now if it happened between cues it would bug me, but right at the beginning of the disc it's kind of hilarious.

I'm fairly sure I remembered reading in FSM's pages that the label corrected that issue in a second pressing of the CD and that they would exchange the "faulty" original pressing disc for anyone who complained, and it was verified the subsequent pressing didn't have this chatter before the start of the cue - and FSM editorially remarking along the lines of "Personally we think it's kinda cool" or something like that. Anyone a big enough fan of that score that they have more than one pressing wink - or their copy that they picked up at some point they can verify does not have the few seconds of chatter?


Wow! That was an accident? I always LOVED that opening!

 
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