Thank you for this interview Kaya, it was indeed very interesting. And you nailed it: we clicked on this link to hear what Powell had to tell, not a filmmusic debate. I think most people here are really grateful to you for providing such insight on John ´s career, so thank you again and keep up the good work!!
"I feel the interviewer showed up his limitations here though, couldn't follow up any of the interesting answers as it comes across he doesn't have a wide exposure to film music (or even music in general) – only the newer/RCP etc. stuff. Needs to listen to more stuff! And I think Powell was hinting at same ;-)"
Just gonna defend my honor here. I have been listening to scores since I discovered film music in 1996 when I was 9 years old, have a degree in Electronic Media & Film. I started Film.Music.Media from a tiny blog to the site it is today. I've conducted over 200+ interviews since I started the site 6 years ago (review # probably in the thousands) and I work at Walt Disney Studios.
My goal for the "All Access" series is less formulaic structure and more organic conversation. If you want an interviewer who enjoys the sound of his voice more so than the information the interviewee is giving then maybe my interviews are not for you :P. If you can show me a better John Powell interview, then by all means please do ;). I'm very grateful to John for the time he gave for this. He is not usually one for interviews, but he was super willing and open to this idea and I think as an audience we all should be thankful for this mega morsel of insight from him.
Edmund Meinerts
September 14, 2015 at 12:46 pm - Reply
Yeah, we knew that already about Armageddon. His demo idea for it eventually ended up on the Directors Cuts album series as a track called "Full Force" – you can find it on YouTube. It's an interesting piece from a historic perspective, definitely from the "Face/Off" era of Powell, but to be honest I don't like it that much, especially the second half. The resultant Rabin/HGW/etc. score is much better.
Perhaps the one and only time I'll ever be glad that Powell didn't end up on a project… :p
this one has lots of nice little information pieces like he was involved to score Armageddon and also seem to have written some stuff for it (before bruckheimer rejected it)
interviewershoweduphislimitations
September 13, 2015 at 12:24 pm - Reply
Very candid and interesting responses.
I feel the interviewer showed up his limitations here though, couldn't follow up any of the interesting answers as it comes across he doesn't have a wide exposure to film music (or even music in general) – only the newer/RCP etc. stuff. Needs to listen to more stuff! And I think Powell was hinting at same ;-)
Also I find the name-dropping cringey, but that's prob just me.
Thank you for this interview Kaya, it was indeed very interesting. And you nailed it: we clicked on this link to hear what Powell had to tell, not a filmmusic debate. I think most people here are really grateful to you for providing such insight on John ´s career, so thank you again and keep up the good work!!
"I feel the interviewer showed up his limitations here though, couldn't follow up any of the interesting answers as it comes across he doesn't have a wide exposure to film music (or even music in general) – only the newer/RCP etc. stuff. Needs to listen to more stuff! And I think Powell was hinting at same ;-)"
Just gonna defend my honor here. I have been listening to scores since I discovered film music in 1996 when I was 9 years old, have a degree in Electronic Media & Film. I started Film.Music.Media from a tiny blog to the site it is today. I've conducted over 200+ interviews since I started the site 6 years ago (review # probably in the thousands) and I work at Walt Disney Studios.
My goal for the "All Access" series is less formulaic structure and more organic conversation. If you want an interviewer who enjoys the sound of his voice more so than the information the interviewee is giving then maybe my interviews are not for you :P. If you can show me a better John Powell interview, then by all means please do ;). I'm very grateful to John for the time he gave for this. He is not usually one for interviews, but he was super willing and open to this idea and I think as an audience we all should be thankful for this mega morsel of insight from him.
Yeah, we knew that already about Armageddon. His demo idea for it eventually ended up on the Directors Cuts album series as a track called "Full Force" – you can find it on YouTube. It's an interesting piece from a historic perspective, definitely from the "Face/Off" era of Powell, but to be honest I don't like it that much, especially the second half. The resultant Rabin/HGW/etc. score is much better.
Perhaps the one and only time I'll ever be glad that Powell didn't end up on a project… :p
this one has lots of nice little information pieces like he was involved to score Armageddon and also seem to have written some stuff for it (before bruckheimer rejected it)
Very candid and interesting responses.
I feel the interviewer showed up his limitations here though, couldn't follow up any of the interesting answers as it comes across he doesn't have a wide exposure to film music (or even music in general) – only the newer/RCP etc. stuff. Needs to listen to more stuff! And I think Powell was hinting at same ;-)
Also I find the name-dropping cringey, but that's prob just me.
Daddy Hans!! lol.
Powell. Yay!!! Although sad about no more Bourne scores.
Awesome!
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