Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the
Replicant POD {Ò¿Ó} covertly transmitting a message to renegade
friends in alt.fan.blade-runner. Tracking...
>Eberhard Schefold <ebab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> once tried to test me. I ate their liver
>with some fava beans and a nice chianti
>
>> POD {Ò¿Ó} wrote:
>>
>>> The only other composer who was consulted was Hans Zimmer. Scott had
>>> him tagged as an insurance backup, but he never wrote anything.
>>
>> Either you're all trying to confuse me, or this was a joke I didn't
>> get. Zimmer's first scoring credit on IMDB is from 1984 and European,
>> so an assignment on a major Hollywood picture (even only as a backup)
>> in 1982 seems highly unlikely to me.
>
>Now don't hate me for this, but I used to have an unreleased Hans Zimmer
>album from 1983. He was in a band called Helden with Ultravox drummer
>Warren Cann, and they had made an album called Spies, and before that
>there was actually a single and a live performance at the London
>planetarium. So Hans was on certain people's radar in the early 80's.
>Needless to say I lost the Spies album, but not before I leaked my copy
>onto the Internet, having cleaned the tape hiss up and MP3'd it. Now
>there are bootleg CDs, but dispite all the efforts, it never has been
>released.officially.
>
>Don't get too excited, it's rubbish.
>
>However in the effort of trying to get it released, the two people who
>were doing all the leg work Cerise and Rob of the Ultravox fanzine went
>around to Hans Zimmer's house and he told them the tale that got relayed
>to be, because of my interest, that it was a great pity that Hans had
>left a video tape of 3 hours of Blade Runner footage that Ridley had
>given him with the intention that if Vangelis didn't work out, he would
>write a score.
>
>But for some reason, hans had to "leave" the family home, not being able
>to take much with him, so this 3 hour tape was either binned or burnt or
>still exists in a box around at the ex mrs. Zimmer's house!
Fascinating! Now where else in the entire universe can you get such
obscure BR information than on a.f.b-r? Shouts out to us!!! We are
Blade Runner.
Netrunner
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