So, the music in particular is very prolific. I mean somebody who hasn't even seen an original film all the way through can hum at least two of the themes. It's really permeated every corner of our lives. I just had to execute it.ĬC: Speaking of the legacy of Star Wars. I mean, I really, really studied that score.Īnd so, I feel like when I did that audition it wasn't like I had to learn anything. I don't have it with me right now, but it's all marked up the cover’s coming off, I’ve written all over it what I think that John Williams was thinking in certain places. I show it to people when I do clinics or whatever. But having said that, I had done my homework, I had the Star Wars score since the early 80’s and I studied that score. I think there were about five of us who auditioned for it and I got the gig. So, I got the opportunity to audition for Clone Wars. Which was the number one show in the world for many years and I think George Lucas was a fan of the music of CSI Miami. Then I started getting bigger and bigger television shows, I did CSI Miami.
I did Leprechaun way back when, Jennifer Aniston's first gig as well.
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My first ever television show was a blooper show called Foul-ups, Bleeps, and Blunders with Steve Lawrence and Don Rickles as the hosts and then I started scoring dramatic series and some films. Then I came back to town, I got married in the Philippines and we've been married 38 years now, my wife and I, and I decided to stay off the road and I got some gigs for television shows. But it’s better, I would have been a terrible doctor. So, then I dropped out of school and I was pre-med, so I dropped out my senior year and I had good grades, I was going to med school. And so, I got into arranging for them and we were using like show orchestras and stuff.
Then I went to college because I was told I needed to not be a musician in order to make a living and then I just started gigging around LA and it kind of worked out and I got a job as music director for an act that went overseas. Grew up playing Yes and Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple and whoever. Kevin Kiner (KK): Well, so my music background is that I grew up playing basically in garage bands when I was a kid. Or maybe I should say how you got started with Star Wars in general.
CineConcerts (CC): Tell us a little bit about your musical background and how you got started on this particular project.