While the usefulness of Julie Kirgo liner notes can certainly be debated, I was disappointed that there is a "tech talk" section in the La La Land 100 Rifles, but it gives almost no information about the process. This is certainly the best sounding 100 Rifles there is, but it's not so far off the FSM version. My guess is that the source material must be a three or four track source with discrete instrument groupings that wasn't really intended to be made into stereo. Does anyone know?
In any event, 100 Rifles has been an obsession of mine since I first heard it in the early 90s, and yes there are some of us who still remember Jeff Bond's lyrics to the 100 Rifles main title: "We've got Burt Reynolds playing a Mexican / His sombrero's as big as a tree."
It's also interesting that Kirgo's notes get to be in normal-sized font and take up many pages, but Mike Mattesino's notes are squeezed onto less than half of the last page, in very small font. I know which ones I would've liked to read more of...I guess I'm saying I'm with you on this.
Julie didn't cover this in her pluperfect notes on lavish display, here? That's odd... Hopefully there is a list of the other Goldsmith westerns he graced his considerable talents with...I ferget cuz I'm dum.
Julie didn't cover this in her pluperfect notes on lavish display, here? That's odd... Hopefully there is a list of the other Goldsmith westerns he graced his considerable talents with...I ferget cuz I'm dum.
The session player list in the booklet mentions Saxophones. Can someone point them out to me in a cue or cues?
I don't know, Gold Digger. I've only got the FSM release, and the musicians list doesn't include the saxophone, although if present it might be listed as one of the woodwinds there. So I'm just guessing. Perhaps it's heard in one of the mariachi tracks. Saxes and accordions and stuff like that are occasionally used in mariachi music from the north of Mexico for instance. Or maybe the instrument is indeed used in other parts of the score. It might be used in a squealing trumpet-like way. It wouldn't have to sound like jazz just because it's a saxophone (not that you implied that it would).
P.S. Who is/are credited as the saxophonist(s) on the LLL? Maybe cross-checking the musicians could give us a clue...
