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Movie Music Composer Michael Kamen deceased
Posted: 2003-11-19 06:50pm
by Steve
Grammy-winning composer Michael Kamen dies at 55.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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Kamen composed a number of good soundtracks for various movies, including Frequency, X-Men, Band of Brothers, Highlander, the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard movies, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, the Three Musketeers (the Disney one with Chris O'Donnell and Kiefer Sutherland), Roadhouse, Event Horizon, the Iron Giant, and the Bond movie Licence to Kill.
Posted: 2003-11-19 06:52pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Dear lord!
He was so
young! And he did excellent scores for X-Men so recently.
A sad loss indeed.
Posted: 2003-11-19 06:53pm
by Zaia
I know.
Posted: 2003-11-19 06:54pm
by Stravo
His soundtracks grace my collection and considered him a great composer. His main theme for Band of Brothers is just beautiful.
Posted: 2003-11-19 07:02pm
by 2000AD
He also did the composingh and conducting for the San Fran Philamonic Orchestra when they played with Metallica in conncert!
he'll be missed!
Posted: 2003-11-19 07:18pm
by RogueIce
Holy Shit!
I only have X-men and Band of Brothers, but both of those are just friggin' excellent. He will be sorely missed.
Posted: 2003-11-19 07:29pm
by Metrion Cascade
He also did the score for "What Dreams May Come." Absolutely heart-melting work.
Posted: 2003-11-19 07:57pm
by zombie84
Fuck! The dude that did Die Hard and Metallica's S&M concert! Fuck, he was only in his 50's wasnt he? I was never a huge fan of his work but i always felt that he didnt get enough appriciation and not enough opportunity to strut his stuff.
Posted: 2003-11-19 07:58pm
by Admiral Valdemar
The Band Of Brothers theme would be a fitting piece for his funeral, the emotion in that two minute piece is very evident.
Posted: 2003-11-20 12:23am
by Steve
Feeling inspired and saddened by the loss of a great musician, I have created a music mix made up of tracks from Kamen's various movie scores. It's 26 and a half minutes long, 192kbit compression. A track listing is included in the zip file, which is nearly 37MB in size.
I hope that through this I do his memory honor.
Posted: 2003-11-20 08:42pm
by Vertigo1
FUCK! He was cool too!
Posted: 2003-11-20 10:41pm
by Chardok
Just D/Led it. Thank you very much, Steve. you did a great job compiling those. I especially liked your transition from RH:PoT to The Musketeers, worked superbly.
Posted: 2003-11-20 10:56pm
by Death from the Sea
He will be missed, and I know it is not considered the greatest but he also did some stuff for The Last Action Hero movie...
Posted: 2003-11-20 11:19pm
by The Kernel
From what I understand, he has been suffering from MS for years. A great loss indeed.