BRIAN TYLER

Nothing much to add, just that it was great seeing Martijn, Alan, Bregje and Anthony again, while sadly for Jon and James there was just time for an interaction of several minutes.

The concert itself was great, but above all loud (no worries I like it loud). I think Thor would have collapsed if his ears had to induce such rocking thundering movie music. There were even people who went to complain during the intermission, but I think they opened Pandora's box there because the second part ... was even LOUDER

The brass players started to faint as well during the second part, tiny slip ups began to appear, but imagining the workout they went through it's totally understandable. Highlights were definitely Triumph of the Spirit (the thing he wrote for the US open but apparently only few people (myself included) already heard), Children of Dune, the Turtles and Aliens vs Predator. The Superman bonus was of course awesome.

Tyler himself was a laugh on stage, and he couldn't stop picking up the microphone just to shout out words to us like: "wow that was fun", and "don't worry I'm not leaving" when he suddenly went to sit behind the drums himself. The small anecdotes were hilarious as well, like hanging up at Sylvester Stallone when he called him for the gig on Rambo 4

And our luck continued when we spotted the man himself late in the evening. He was gracious enough to go on photo and talk to us briefly. Bregt even gave him a kazoo, but something tells me (unlike Bear McCreary) it won't be heard in his next score if they all sound so loud like this concert.

The 3 day excursion around London was exhausting in this kind of summer heat, but kudos to Anthony to show us so much in such little time. You were awesome . And Mario himself was a hoot knowing he was able to visit all 3 Disney stores in one weekend (much to the agony of Bregt)

The hotel Martijn was staying in was just unreal. And I never saw so many gorgeous people in one setting like the rooftop bar. Then again, with bottles of champagne flying around like it was water, I imagine only the cream of the crop was there at that moment. It was quite frankly decadent as well.

In general, whoever missed it, you guys should have been there. It was just great fun.

Thanks very much, Thomas. You didn't look so bad yourself.

haha, you too

And this. Damn i am so envious! https://www.instagram.com/p/BFMPO4Qu6bv/

I don't want to be the party pooper here and be seen as the odd one out but even live his music is completely devoid of life... pun intended. I listened to those two clips, is that even music, does that even represent a theme? I mean a memorable one? One for the ages? I listened to the clips and I forgot about it 4 seconds later.

Also his obsession with drums, and simplistic and repetitive drum patterns too is just too silly to take seriously. Does he need to incorporate them in everything he writes? I guess he thinks the louder the better, and fuck subtlety.

Sure he's very passionate about his work and he makes for a great musician but I continue to be shocked at the man's popularity as a composer.

He talks about John Williams and Bernard Herrmann and how much they have influenced him. Too bad he misses the lyrical and harmonic approach of these two gentlemen.

And with that my rant is over... everyone can now continue praising the dude.

Silly???

I was not being silly, more being brutally honest !

Now, THIS is silly !!!

Leave alone really crappy mobile phone recordings!
They would have been much better off just taking pictures. I simply CANNOT understand what people get from recording a set like that in this way. It's like quickly sketching a copy of a Rembrandt in a museum with only a purple crayon!

I swear your English was better in the earlier days of this forum.

I get you, I agree! see it way too much these days unfortunately and plenty more to come while I'm at Glastonbury next month.

The sound may not be ideal - the drums on both clips are way much louder than it sounded in the room - but the images are decent enough to answer questions.

There was a brief discussion (at the interval or after the concert) as to whether the anvil in the Iron Man 3 cue was being played by one of the many percussionists or whether it was being 'piped in'. You can clearly see some anvil action happening in the clip.

So, the clips can have their uses.

I think this concert more than ever proved his limits as a composer (so far). Basically his earliest material sounds the most original, while his recent epic blockbuster scores tend to sound the same, even in themes. The Turtles is basically Iron Man 3, while every comic score now has the always returning Marvel motif opening the score. It showed his limits so far. And honestly, somehow one single piece of Williams showed him and the audience what a grade A composer can write for an orchestra.

YET Tyler is definitely a composer I like a lot when I hear him writing for a big blockbuster movie. I prefer Turtles (no matter the temp track love and limits) anyday over the Jackman's who write for other comic Marvel blockbusters. Then I prefer the bombastic no holding back approach of Tyler so much more.

And I think my brother would dislike The Greatest Game ever Played, because it's temp track love of one of his favorite scores (Legends of the Fall)

But Children of Dune and Triumph of the Spirit (which my brother loved because he didn't even hear Brian Tyler in it ) shows you the man can write. He just needs to produce better shorter albums
And stop putting the best track of the album first

Gilles is a bit special that way.
Hey, it's OK. Even Timmer doesn't like Tyler, and aside from a predilection for Finnish composers the man has otherwise impeccable taste!

Not everyone can appreciate a rollicking good fun time.

I just assume that the similarities between all his Marvel scores is a deliberate choice to reflect the same superhero universe. And then I just sit back and enjoy.

I cannot sit back and enjoy. But I can lean forward and cringe. As in lean forward to puke.

And that is the only reaction I can think of when listening to Tyler, or most things he has written so far.

But don't let that stop any of you enjoying what he does. Me, I have lots of other stuff to listen to in my spare time.

Ah, this discussion reminds me of the very early days of this message board and my posts in this thread in particular .

While I had, after Far Cry 3, a reevaluation of the man's music, that's still not enough to own any of his works on CD (I listen to my favorites on Spotify and one of my favorite scores of his, though it took me a while to warm up to it) and actually go all the way to London for a concert, when I picked... another one a few days earlier.

But now, especially in his Marvel mode (except the mess that Avengers 2 ended up being for a few reasons), I do like his stuff. Scores I warmed up the most to are Battle: LA and MW 3, My favorites remain Eagle Eye and Far Cry 3, though I have quite a bit of liking to Now You See Me and Iron Man 3... and The Killing Room.