LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience

"Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there." LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience: Track One Scene: Small Soldiers Opening Credits Artist: Jerry Goldsmith Movie: Small Soldiers Quote: Archer (Frank Langella)/Small Soldiers Mix: Power to Believe Welcome to the Jerry Goldsmith Experience! Alrighty, let's get this party started with the opening sequence to Small Soldiers, one of Jerry's later scores. Small Soldiers is a vastly underrated movie and has a phenomenal score by Jerry Goldsmith. This is the only selection on the Mix from that particular movie but it's got some other fantastic musical compositions on it that any fan of Jerry's work should definitely check out.

"You are what you do. A man is defined by his actions, not his memory." LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience: Track Two Song: First Meeting Artist: Jerry Goldsmith Album: Total Recall OST Quote: Kuato, Total Recall Mix: Growltiger IN WHICH: Chris stands before a small cage at the Humane Society. From behind the bars, the male kitten peers upwards with hopeful eyes. Chris decides not to adopt him and goes to leave. The kitten grabs the bars of his cage in his claws and meows as hard as his little lungs can manage. Chris hears and looks back. Moved by something he doesn't fully understand, he decides to welcome the kitten into his home. This little gem is from Jerry's score for Total Recall (the original). I used it on the Mix GROWLTIGER which is about the life, death and rebirth of my cat Oliver. There are two other Jerry Goldsmith songs from Total Recall on that Mix and I REALLY wanted to put them in this collection right away but I'm right in the middle of upgrading GROWLTIGER song by song and I didn't want to skip ahead, so for now those two songs will remain in limbo. Once their upgrades are complete they will become a part of the Jerry Goldsmith Experience.

"Since you are part of the all that is, part of its purpose, there is more to you than just this brief speck of existence. You are just a visitor here in this time and this place, a traveler through it." LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience: Track Three Song: Star Trek: Voyager Main Theme Artist: Jerry Goldsmith Album: The Star Trek Album Quote: Gene Roddenberry Mix: Wishbringer It's difficult to imagine Star Trek of old without thinking about Jerry Goldsmith. His contributions to both the series and the movies are nothing short of legendary. He scored the first Star Trek motion picture and it was in that movie that he originated the theme that would become synonymous with Star Trek: The Next Generation. A few years later he went on to create this masterpiece, the main theme to Star Trek: Voyager. Say what you want about the show (I liked it), this epic opening song perfectly represents everything that Star Trek stood for...Hope, Vision and the Spirit of Adventure.

"Sounds mean nothing without music." LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience: Track Four Song: Main Titles Composer: Jerry Goldsmith Album: Star Trek: First Contact OST Quote: Jerry Goldsmith Mix: The Power of Three The three greatest movie score composers of our age team up in THE POWER OF THREE! John Williams, James Horner and Jerry Goldsmith at their very best in fifteen different movies spanning back to 1980. Buckle Up. THE POWER OF THREE consists of 5 sections with each composer taking a turn each section. The order of the composers could be any number of combinations. I was staring at the lineup and wondering why I had back-to-back similar sounding Jerry Goldsmith going on in the middle of the Mix. I asked myself from four years ago why I set it up that way. Past Chris told me to just go with it, it has something to do with the flow of the music later on in the Mix. So, yeah, uh, let's just go with it. But yeah, Star Trek, man. I fear it's lost without him and without Gene. But if you ever just want a taste of what Real Star Trek is really all about, just listen to this theme and get back to me. I was unable to decide between this theme and the Insurrection theme so I just put them both on, they are both magnificent in their own way. Jerry Goldsmith truly was a Master. May his vision through his music live on forever.

"And, if by some strange chance, you should run across him, you had best think only good thoughts. Anything less than that is handled at your own risk, because if you do meet Anthony, you can be sure of one thing: you have entered The Twilight Zone." LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience: Track Five Song: It's a Good Life Artist: Jerry Goldsmith Album: Twilight Zone: The Movie OST Quote: Rod Sterling/Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 8: It's a Good Life Mix: Hippo 2.0 Remember this kid? Right, the one who can wish anything into and out of existence and knows everything you're thinking. That one. You wouldn't think something this terrifying would have such and eerie and beautiful theme, but that's the way Jerry Goldsmith rolled back in the day. This theme, which plays during the third vignette of Twilight Zone: The Movie, is classic Jerry at his absolute best. The entire Overture to the movie is over on THE MASTER SWORD, under the title The Three Sacred Flames (trust me, it makes sense for that Mix) and includes an even more intense version of this theme, along with the beloved theme to Kick the Can, the one where the old people in the nursing home turn into kids for one night and rediscover their joy. Only Jerry could have composed a piece of music that actually makes you feel that way. It's just one of the many gems he left behind for us.

"She is a Living Presence in their spiritual earthbound Plane. They're attracted to the ONE thing about her that is different from themselves. Her Lifeforce." LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience: Track Six Scene: Tangina's Monologue (Part 1) Artists: Jerry Goldsmith, Zelda Rubenstein Movie: Poltergeist (1982) Quote: Tangina/Poltergeist Mix: Sleepy Dragon Tangina's monologue from Poltergeist is one of the pivotal moments in the movie, thanks to Zelda Rubenstein's riveting performance paired with Jerry Goldsmith's exceptional score. I broke it into two parts for the Mix SLEEPY DRAGON and have put both parts on the Jerry Goldsmith Experience so that we may get the full effect of their dynamic brilliance.

"A good string section and an orchestra are the first things I think of when I start a project. The strings are particularly important to me. With them I can do any kind of picture. After the human voice, they are the most expressive instrument I know." LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience: Track Seven Song: The Parachutes Composer: Jerry Goldsmith Album: Air Force One OST Quote: Jerry Goldsmith Mix: The Power of Three The three greatest movie score composers of our age team up in THE POWER OF THREE! John Williams, James Horner and Jerry Goldsmith at their very best in fifteen different movies spanning back to 1980. Buckle Up. Merry Christmas! I've got something special for you all today. This song here is what I like to call a "crowd pleaser". I don't know what it is about it....well actually I do, but I don't know why this PARTICULAR song attracts so many people who otherwise don't really care too much about orchestral movie scores. But attract them it does, and with good reason, because Jerry's main theme to Air Force One is one of those songs that just makes you feel...patriotic. I think it also has something to do with Harrison Ford and the fact that Air Force One is just such a great and memorable movie. So here it is, with a bow on it, JUST for you. Hope everyone has a great day and a wonderful Christmas! Later!

"So much Rage, so much Betrayal. I've never sensed anything like it." LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience: Track Eight Scene: Tangina's Monologue (Part 2) Artists: Jerry Goldsmith, Zelda Rubenstein Movie: Poltergeist (1982) Quote: Tangina/Poltergeist Mix: Sleepy Dragon In this, the second part of Tangina's monologue from Poltergeist, both the music and the tone shift into darker and more ominous territory, which in the end is what Poltergeist is all about. The dread this scene inspires is second to none.

"You are one of the chosen many, flesh and blood. It is now your destiny to fight the Eternal Darkness.. You hold one of Mantorok’s hearts. To some it is a source of great power. From these people, you must defend it, lest they use it to destroy what little brightness your world has left in it... Guard it well!" LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience: Track Nine Song: The Power Artist: Jerry Goldsmith Album: Poltergeist 2: The Other Side OST Quote: Mantorok/Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem Mix: Eternal Darkness IN WHICH: As the planetary alignment approaches, the chosen gather atop a spire of stone to be gifted with the Power to destroy Evil. I have a hard time deciding which of the first two Poltergeist movies has the better score. Jerry's work on both of them is nothing short of astonishing. I used several songs from Poltergeist 2: The Other Side on the Mix ETERNAL DARKNESS, this being the opening song for that Mix. Yeah, in the end I have decided NOT to decide. It's all Jerry and it's all awesome.

"If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will be because it is good." LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience: Track Ten Song: Ba'Ku Village Composer: Jerry Goldsmith Album: Star Trek: Insurrection OST Quote: Jerry Goldsmith Mix: The Power of Three The three greatest movie score composers of our age team up in THE POWER OF THREE! John Williams, James Horner and Jerry Goldsmith at their very best in fifteen different movies spanning back to 1980. Buckle Up. Here we have Jerry Goldsmith's painfully beautiful beginning credit scene score for Star Trek: Insurrection. Jerry did a TON of work on the Star Trek series during his life, including the score to Star Trek: The Motion Picture as well as the theme to Star Trek: Voyager to name just a few. For now, let's just bask in the melody of his God-given talent.