Bruce Faulconer's Relationship With FUNimation

[Fennekin]

I was wondering if someone could explain to me in full detail what exactly caused a riff between Bruce Faulconer and FUNimation? I'm really curious to know the full story.

[Fionordequester]

Basically, FUNI didn't want him for GT (the reason why is unclear, though it's theorized that they wanted a more "gangsta" style for the "gangsta" spin they were putting on GT), causing Bruce Faulconer acted like a raving manchild and hand out the emails of several executives to pretty much everyone who ever emailed him, asking them to flood the inboxes of the executives so that he could score GT instead of Mark Menza. FUNI...did not exactly react kindly to that, and as you can imagine, things went sour fast, as the two engaged in a long legal battle over ownership of the Faulconer score.

And then FaulconerProductions went bankrupt. Fortunately, it wasn't a huge loss because Bruce Faulconer was a hack who stole the credit from three other musicians who actually did most of the score anyways (the only tracks of note that Faulconer did was "Ginyu Transformation", "Bulma and the Frog", the Theme song, the "Opening and Closing theme", and maybe the "Ginyu Force Theme"...and that's basically it). And THOSE three musicians are still doing well.

[Valerius Dover]

Basically, FUNI didn't want him for GT (the reason why is unclear, though it's theorized that they wanted a more "gangsta" style for the "gangsta" spin they were putting on GT), causing Bruce Faulconer acted like a raving manchild and hand out the emails of several executives to pretty much everyone who ever emailed him, asking them to flood the inboxes of the executives so that he could score GT instead of Mark Menza. FUNI...did not exactly react kindly to that, and as you can imagine, things went sour fast, as the two engaged in a long legal battle over ownership of the Faulconer score.

And then FaulconerProductions went bankrupt. Fortunately, it wasn't a huge loss because Bruce Faulconer was a hack who stole the credit from three other musicians who actually did most of the score anyways (the only tracks of note that Faulconer did was "Ginyu Transformation", "Bulma and the Frog", the Theme song, the "Opening and Closing theme", and maybe the "Ginyu Force Theme"...and that's basically it). And THOSE three musicians are still doing well.

Ginyu Force Theme was Mike Smith, according to an earlier topic that Scott Morgan commented in.
I think they just felt like doing something "fresh" for GT. They just wanted something that wasn't more of the same. The Japanese version also changes its style there. Had he not thrown that fit, he and Julius Dobos likely would've returned to rescore Episodes 1-67, although I'm pretty happy about what we got instead, anyway (Yep, in the minority here).

[eledoremassis02]

Is there a way we can hear the other composers other music (outside DBZ)

[Fionordequester]

Is there a way we can hear the other composers other music (outside DBZ)

Mike Smith and Scott Morgan have some stuff on Youtube, and Julius Dobos has his own website where he blogs, talks about how he's feeling about his profession and music, has a ton of the music he's done, and stuff like that. In addition, Scott Morgan's worked on some music for video games and the like.

[penguintruth]

I hate to say this, but GT would have been better off with Faulconer.

Though it would have been better off just leaving alone.

Though it REALLY would have been better off not being made to begin with.