Electric Guitar for the first time?

In the AOTC soundtrack, did any one hear an Electric Guitar on track three? That's the first time I've heard an EG in an orcestra.

 

It has been done before

 

Thank god it was cut from the film. Horrible. Anyway it's been done before. Not in Star Wars but in James Horner's score for A Perfect Storm. I am sure there are others as well.

 

All those who don't like electric guitar - either in the film or in general - are just closed minded people.

I think it sounds excellent there. Of course I'm not desperate to see Star Wars swamped with nothing but guitar riffs everywhere. It was nice touch.

 

Experimentation is great in orchestral music. Return of the Jedi and Empire Strikes Back use synthesisers on a few occassions.

The electric guitar fit the mood of the scene, but I think it put the track a little over the top. That's just a personal opinion, though.

 

Don't get me wrongo- I think it was pretty cool to have it there.

 

I loved the guitar; seemed very fitting. If it were to be used in the film, it could have easily been mistaken as source music.

There?s also some electronic orchestration in the Menace album as well, but not in the film. You hear it right before the Emperors theme when the Viceroy was talking to the dark lord in Naboo.

In Danny Elfman?s Spider-man there is a guitar-solo, as well Dead Presidents.

 

There is also a heavy guitar element in both the Armagedon and Mr. Holland's Opus soundtracks.

 

Wow which parts have the synthesisers in ROJ?

 

I haven't heard those sound tracks.

 

"In Danny Elfman?s Spider-man there is a guitar-solo, as well Dead Presidents."


That's not the first time Elfman has done that either. He used a guitar solo in Anywhere But Here and also Good Will Hunting, I think. He also used a very wierd kind of guitar in Men In Black but I have no idea what you'd call it.

 

All those who don't like electric guitar - either in the film or in general - are just closed minded people.

That's bull. I am a very open minded person. Sure it's easy to write off those that disagree with you as being close minded but that is simply ignorant.

I listened to the guitar bit in AOTC for a few weeks with an open mind before I finally decided I didn't like it. I still kept an open mind when I saw the film to see if I liked it where it fit in the film. It's not in the film, so I guess I am not the only one who didn't like it.

 

Fair enough Strilo. You have proven me wrong.
OK what I should have said is those who dismiss it before they've heard it are closed minded.

Which is not the case with anybody in this thread. Ah well.

 

"That's not the first time Elfman has done that either. He used a guitar solo in Anywhere But Here and also Good Will Hunting..."

True, but Dead Presidents came out before those movies.


"He also used a very wierd kind of guitar in Men In Black but I have no idea what you'd call it."

I think it was a very synthesized sting solo.


"It's not in the film, so I guess I am not the only one who didn't like it"

Like Lucas? Yeah, but he did some pretty bazaar editing music-wise in this movie.

 

Yeah Lucas did do some bizarre music editing. But in the case of the electric guitar, that part of the cue is used in the proper place, there is just no electric guitar there. And that's a good choice, IMHO.

 

In RotJ, you can hear a synthesizer in the bass while the Rancor-keeper is weeping.

When it comes to the music editing, I'd rather have the entire score as Williams wrote it (electric guitar and all) in the film than keep Lucas' other edits.

 

Well sure me too but we don't get that choice do we?

 

ah yeah GasCabbie, I remember it. That goes so well with fatmans weeping.

There are so many moments when I can't tell what is score and what is sound effect. That is the genius of JW, GL and Ben Burtt - it's all seamless.

 

Hans Zimmer ("The Rock", "The Peacemaker", "Gladiator"...) and his "deciples", like John Powell, Trevor Rabin or Mark Mancina, use E-Guitars in a lot of their scores... I guess it was Zimmer himself who introduced this style to soundtracks... but don't quote me here.

 

Actually, the electric guitar is used quite well in the AOTC track Zam the Assassin and the Chase through Coruscant.

The first time it was very strange but after repeated "listenings" I found it to be really amusing. Too bad they didn't use it.

 

"I guess it was Zimmer himself who introduced this style to soundtracks... but don't quote me here."

Ah nope, Elfman?s Dead Presidents came out in 95, The Rock came out the following year.

For those who don?t have Danny Elfman?s Music for a Darkened Theater II should really check it out. It?s definitely one of my favorite Elfman scores, as well one of the best score compilation soundtracks ever.

 

I have listened to it hundreds of times and I still don't like it.

 

I think there is a recognisable synth sweep when Luke enters Jabba's palace in ROTJ. Wasn't there also some really weird contempary sounds used in TPM celebration music right at the end of the movie? It almost sounds like there is some sampling used and I can hear a decidedly cheesey digital synth in the mix. But hey both of the above worked. I think a snippet of the guitar part can still be heard in the speeder chase in AOTC when Anakin sets the speeder into a steep dive. I think it works because it sounds more like a sound effect than anything else. Oh yeah remember "JEDI ROCKS" in ROTJ? Now that was taking the poodoo.

 

stri, I love the electric guitar in AOTC.

 

I can sort of play that guitar riff now.
I wasn't able to make out bits of it over the orchestra, but I have a bare bones version of it that I can play.