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I don't think Bond should write it--he's not nearly enough of a fan of Goldsmith's music.
At the same time, there's a danger that you might get someone who's too attached to Goldsmith that he or she's viewpoint may become skewed. A book? I'm all for it. I'd like to know a bit more about the man. One of the bright lights in the recent dark days has been an anecdotal picture of Goldsmith himself.
Ever read the Goldsmith/Jeff Bond "Downward Spiral Road" piece from FSM's 10th anniversary issue? There's a hilarious (and bittersweet) timeline (ouch!) that chronicles the ups and downs of Bond/Jerry. The piece claims that Jeff approached Goldsmith at a concert in Detroit and told the maestro that he "worships him as a god." This is where the FSM/Jerry troubles began, I think. BTW, I've always loved the "Lukas Kendall Remembers" editorial from that same issue. It's probably the best thing ever written in the magazine's history, IMO.
As for Bond being "too much" of a fan, his fan love for all things STAR TREK didn't seem to interfere with his criticisms of the lesser TREK scores, did it? While that book was written with obvious affection, Bond still produced a fine book on TREK music, and so far is the only book on the subject to date. So why not a bio? Lord knows we need one.
I was in contact with Goldsmiths daughter Ellen about 18 months back she told me about the book, but I thought she had not continued with the project....john m.
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Its too bad Lukas because I know deep down inside you love his work. Unfortunantly some rocks fall in the wrong Valley, it seems you and the Goldsmiths dont mix.
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Honestly? Why do people post stuff like this? How many JG scores has Lukas released? More than a few.
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When the excerpts where published at FreeClyde and JGOnline, as suggested by both sites, I did send Carrie an email with my observations, comments and so on. No reply.
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Forgive my frustration but why does this have to get published anyway? Can't they just upload the work onto Joel's site so we can read it like was the case with the chapters allready featured? Or does there absolutely have to be a commercial aspect involved here?
I have just recently read the excerpts from Carrie's book on the Joel Goldsmith site and on Jerry Goldsmith Online, and I was fascinated even more by the open, human element of the writing than by the informational aspect of it. You see the real Jerry and Carrie Goldsmith. All Goldsmith fans have read the long or short canned biographies. This book, as indicated by the title, goes much deeper in it's exploration of this complex man, his remarkable career and his relationships with family and associates. Carrie's conversational approach to interviewing her dad and others (Anna North, etc.) is much more intimate, given her relationship, than someone doing it for other purposes, and reads, to her great credit, more like a memoir than a stark biography. I enjoyed learning about her thoughts on things as much as Jerry's, and the book seems to reflect her inner discoveries regarding her relationship with her dad (and vice-versa) as much as it relates information on his life and career, which creates a much more interesting slice of life to ponder. I sincerely hope, as mentioned above, that her touching and fascinating book might show up online, if not in print form. Incredibly interesting reading from all sorts of points of view.
I don't consider myself a nutcase fan, but, like many others, Goldsmith's music has been a meaningful part of my life for over 30 years. Seeing the inner workings of his mind, as only this type of intimate biographical approach could relate, helps me to admire and understand the great humanity of this man, both through trials and triumphs, good and bad- same as we all go through.
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Who knows what was happening at the time this thread took off, the point is that I regret not responding in real time as opposed to now, almost a year later.
Anyway, it is deeply painful to see how things break down in the course of a project like this. It simply doesn't matter whether we're talking about amateurs or professionals; coulda/woulda/shouldas after the fact are killers. So many sensitivities to become aware of, some delicate, some not so delicate, and you're always wondering how what you said will come across. From one day to the next.
In some very small maybe even insignificant but definite way, I share LK's regret. When a bunch of us civvies descended upon Detroit on that weekend in 2000, we converged in a hotel room and earnestly brainstormed on how we might somehow get through to Mr. G and have him agree to a very special session with us, along the order of a just-you-and-a-small-group-of-serious-film-music-appreciators-sharing-a-few-drinks-in-the-hotel-lounge-and-schmoozing-and-celebrating-that-which-we-hold-so-dear. I clearly recall J. Takis ("Wedge") being assigned the roll of ambassador or something as he had already had a favorable encounter the day before.
Hey, we could dream, ya know? Jerry would have no idea that it was FSM that had 'brought' this rather disparate little group of individuals together and he had to at least give us the pleasure of trying. It would all be as businesslike, non-fanboyish as possible.
It wasn't meant to be, for whatever reasons, but the next best thing we could do was approach him as individuals as often as possible i.e. after each concert and just engage him in conversation and talk shop and hope we could hit it off and hopefully not turn him off in any way. Well, the next best thing worked out wonderfully. The memories 8 years later of my as well as others' encounters are still fresh and delightful. Much has already been chronicled on contemperaneous threads originated at moviemusic.com (FSMessageboard was undergoing a makeover at the time) with some reminiscences later transferred this way.
He was great, a real sport. Things couldn't have gone any better, under the circumstances. But underneath the pleasantries and rapport lurked a nagging conflict, a conflict of the worst kind, the kind when death enters the picture: the unresolved conflict. In some strange and preposterously idealized way, we wanted to do our bit and contribute to patching up the bad blood and settling the conflict between him and FSM. I think, in retrospect, we made our contribution and succeeded with flying colors. But Jerry would never know about our dreaded connection; we never told him. At least not directly.
Call it a pipe dream. A cyberspace fantasy. Whatever. But the satisfaction with what did actually transpire was real.
And yet...this proposed book with the cooperation of FSM would have conceivably closed the book on the past, to a degree. Instead, everything is left hanging. The heartsickness of expectation postponed lingers. Aye, oh so close.
Perhaps a reconciliation between the Goldsmiths and FSM, in time, can still be effected. Carrie sounds like she has put in way too much heart, blood, sweat and tears to allow all her efforts to remain on the shelf. Those efforts cry out for a better epilogue. In time, she will know when the time's right. In the meantime, we can still dream.
Oh those nagging blues of the wishes unfulfilled kind.
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I don't think this book is aimed to criticise the industry of fellow collegues than it is to simply shed light on Goldsmith's views and anecdotes concerning it. But for now we are in the dark. 
