![]() ![]() I could give you so many examples of composers who are not all that good in my opinion, to put it nicely, but are excellent at networking. I'm not saying that you don't have to have talent, you absolutely do. These aspects of the business are every bit as important as talent these days. If I would go back and do anything differently, I would have taken more business classes, I would have focused more on self-promotion, networking, that whole thing. You may not have the luxury of making the kind of connections I did when I first got into writing music for films. The main thing I would say is, get your self-promoting chops together, because you may not have the luxury of having representation. You know the advice I have now would probably be much different than when I first started out. I'm very blessed I'm able to go to conventions, play live concerts and include this music and people still seem to love it. I never expected it and it continues to this day. I tell you, that is a surreal and wonderful experience. ![]() Fans tell me, 'this is what your music did to me as I was growing up'. I'm watching them watching the movie and it's a very surreal experience. I can look around at the faces in the theater and they're anticipating all these things. I'll go to screenings every once in a while, I look at all these fans, they know every line of the movie, they know every piece of the music, they know the music literally better than I do at this point. I think the music played an important role after all. Specifically, he said, "Do you know how many fans there are of your music?" I really had no idea. Glen educated me on how much of a cult following this film had garnered. "In 1997 I was contacted by Glen Hallit, the organizer of BotCon, one of the first Transformers conventions.
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