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If only all composer would/could do this!
This is truly awesome. Especially for me, Blindspot -- my favorite of anything Neely has ever done -- it was very sad that La-La Land went ahead with new season releases for all previous Neely shows but abandoned a follow-up to Blindspot's terrific Season 1 soundtrack.
Only thing is, doesn't seem like any of this is downloadable. That's too bad, but I guess understandable.
It's actually kind of painful...listening to the unreleased Blindspot right now, and it's so f***ing good. Just as good as I imagined it to be...but it's so sad to know that the only way I can listen to it is thru the site, and not out and about whenever and wherever I want. I wish to own, I wish to own! But yes, I will be happy with what I have and I'm hella grateful that Neely has allowed me to hear it at all!
If anyone knows that this can be downloaded and I'm missing something, please speak now!
Ack La-La Land please go back and release more Blindspot!!!
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Wow. His website is an amazing treasure trove. My first instinct was to look for First Daughter which he was working on with Michael Kamen when Kamen passed away. Gonna give this a listen. Nice piece from Neely on working on this project:
http://www.blakeneely.com/#page=listen§ion=film&item=first-daughter
"In early November 2003, my good friend and mentor Michael Kamen showed me an early cut of his new film. He said his idea was to score it as a fairy tale and played me 4 great themes he'd written. He asked me if I could take them and do full orchestral synth mockups to send to the director, Forest Whitaker. On November 17th, at around midnight, I emailed four cues to Michael for review. The next morning, I awoke to a horrible phone call: Michael had died.
In a surprisingly un-Hollywood move, rather than ask for another composer, Forest Whitaker immediately asked how we could honor Michael by using his music to score the film. Still grieving our loss but with an enormous sense of responsibility, I accepted the challenge and began what would become my most personally difficult yet gratifying project.
Forest and I worked closely throughout the many months of scoring. We spent many nights in my studio talking about the music, how Michael might do it, how I was trying to do it, the meaning of life, you name it. We even wrote songs together with Damon Elliott to give the entire musical score its own identity and sound world. We recorded a large orchestra and boys' choir for the final score and Forest's own daughter supplied our lead voice in the opening titles.
It was a surreal but wonderful time. I felt like Michael was next to me each night in the studio and on the podium in front of the orchestra. I miss him still. Fittingly, we finished the final mix of the final cue on Michael's birthday, April 15, 2004."
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(Couldn't find a general thread about Blake Neely's work on all four shows).
I'm a HUGE fan of these shows and specially the score by Blake Neely!
Yes, they can be a bit cheesy but I like cheesy 
He has some really great melodies and he is very character theme driven. Which is something I like.
Just found out that he has finally uploaded hours of expanded score from each season from all the shows!
Around 4-5 hours of extra score! Gonna take me several days to finish this all!
There's so much, I have to make playlists in my iTunes for each show and add to that the cues I really enjoy.
Previous discussion here
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=119472&forumID=1&archive=0
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