Cheers, we'll fix that.
I think he had something to do with Soft Machine at some point, probably during the terminally naff, dead-end "Rubber Riff" era.
I'll look into that...
There was a lot of faffing about with the TV music, wasn't there? Stories about how they were going to ask Mike Oldfield to do it.
I only bring this up because there was a bloke with a mobile earlier which rang to the tune of Tubular Bells.
The opening theme, I mean, not Viv Stanshall saying 'Grand Piano...'.
The opening TV music was taken from the first Original Records LP (you can hear the start of the first piece of incidental music "The Guide Speaks" begin as it fades out), and the closing music was from the 7 inch single.
A re-e-mix of the first LP theme appears on the Restaurant at the End of the Universe LP.
At the very end of ep six of the TV version there's a big booming finale of "Journey of the Sorcerer", I reckon this was done by Paddy Kingsland - but I'd be interested to hear if anyone knows any better.
>At the very end of ep six of the TV version there's a big booming finale of "Journey of the Sorcerer", I reckon this was done by Paddy Kingsland - but I'd be interested to hear if anyone knows any better.
It's looped horribly on the video release (to incorporate the extra credits).
Shame the nice atmospheric end theme of the TV series was overlooked for the video. All that delicious swirling echo.
Never liked the remix of 'Journey...' on the 'Restaurant...' LP, though the speeded up guitar which links to the opening beats appear to have been influenced by 'The Narrow Way - part 1' on Pink Floyd's 'Ummagumma'. That doesn't surprise me.
>There was a lot of faffing about with the TV music, wasn't there? Stories about how they were going to ask Mike Oldfield to do it.
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>I only bring this up because there was a bloke with a mobile earlier which rang to the tune of Tubular Bells.
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>The opening theme, I mean, not Viv Stanshall saying 'Grand Piano...'.
What a fantastic concept...
"Plus... Tubular... Bells!"
"Oh sorry - that's my mobile..."
Joe4 done:
>Shame the nice atmospheric end theme of the TV series was overlooked for the video. All that delicious swirling echo.
There's a version of "Journey" by Tim Souster hidden at http://tv.cream.org/themes/hitch_hikers.mp3, if that's any use. It's taken from 'Space Invaded', a BBC Records album from 198-something. I'm presuming that this must be the same as the 7" release, but different to the "Restaurant" copy (I've heard neither of the latter two).
Cheerio
Steve done.
The page claims the file doesn't exist, unfortunately.
Cue a dozen Jim Yoakum jokes.
Sorry, that was the comma.
http://tv.cream.org/themes/hitch_hikers.mp3
Hopefully, that works.
Cheerio
Yeah. I've got Space Invaded, complete with sleeve notes by Matt Irvine, and it's the same version as the 7".
Incidentally, I think Tim Souster may be dead now. No more journeys for him, then. Does anyone own anything else he's done? I read somewhere that he studied with Stockhausen, which is pretty cool.
At work we've got a CD of "library music" (generic music used in radio and TV production) on which he does some "soundalike" versions of several movie and TV themes. Soundalikes do exactly what they say on the tin. They're designed to mimic the arrangement and tempo of a famous piece of music, but change just enough notes in each bar to prevent having to pay royalties to the original composer. They're often favoured in adverts for companies too tight to shell out for expensive music rights. On the CD there's a rubbish "Mission Impossible" soundalike and ones for "Star Trek TNG" and "Star Wars", which are quite nice, in an alternate-universe kinda way.