I think the Tarantula Edition of this really magnificant score was illegit.
They published the cd without having the rights of the score.
I think they mastered it from an LP as they didn't have the original master tapes. This was also one of the reasons that this cd disappeared so quickley from the market as Tarantula was forced to destroy all remaining cds as they were illegal. Hope one day a regular and perhaps expanded edition of this John Scott masterpiece will appear.

mr.garibaldi, May 9, 2010; 9:42 AM

I find it again and again interesting, how collecting tanks, which were NOT with the treaty negotiations not thereby, give information over it whether a pressing is legal or not! ; -)
It concerned a limited pressing!
Please they excuse my bad grammar.


coburgcat007, May 11, 2010; 9:17 AM

@mrgaribaldi:

what proofs do you have for what you are pretending here or are this simple suppositions?
Did you stand nearby the owners of Tarantula when they destroyed their so called bootlegs?. Have you been involved in the negotiations ?.
If not i would call your posting what it is: self-importance.

peter-anselm, May 11, 2010; 6:38 PM

I'm inclined to believe, on the information provided, that it probably isn't official, considering other CD releases by Tarantula. John Scott himself, on the liner notes of his own label's release of THE FINAL COUNTDOWN, said that Tarantula's edition of this latter title was not legitimate. And has anyone ever heard Tarantula's late-80's CD release of Goldsmith's THE OMEN. It sounds as though it was mastered straight off an LP, without any filtering whatsover (i.e. vinyl tics and pops galore).

ajvin9, May 11, 2010; 11:40 PM

I've just had an e-mail from La-La Land records. They are releasing the first 'official' CD of John Scotts score. It's a remastering of the original album with the added bonus of the overture and end titles from the film itself.

RGStovold, September 21, 2010; 7:52 AM