Question regarding Bruce Faulconer's music on orange sets

[cRookie_Monster]

Yeah I know what you mean. Heh, You know the name "Mike" is pretty close to "Mickey" ^^

[Mountain]

Sorry to get off-topic, but the thread's question appears to have already been answered, so I have some questions for cRookie_Monster. I've seen that you post at the FUNi forums, as well, so forgive me if you've already answered this in the past. I'm just curious about Faulconer Productions. What exactly did and/or didn't Faulconer do? What are some of the pieces that you personally wrote or had something to do with? Basically, could you just give us a run-down of everyone involved? It seems that Bruce gets the credit for everything by most fans.

For the record, I'm a fan of Kikuchi's score, but I'd still like to educate myself with accurate information. I don't have a problem with the Faulconer Productions score, but I mostly agree with the things people have already stated in this thread. Thanks.

[cRookie_Monster]

Sorry to get off-topic, but the thread's question appears to have already been answered, so I have some questions for cRookie_Monster. I've seen that you post at the FUNi forums, as well, so forgive me if you've already answered this in the past. I'm just curious about Faulconer Productions. What exactly did and/or didn't Faulconer do? What are some of the pieces that you personally wrote or had something to do with? Basically, could you just give us a run-down of everyone involved? It seems that Bruce gets the credit for everything by most fans.

For the record, I'm a fan of Kikuchi's score, but I'd still like to educate myself with accurate information. I don't have a problem with the Faulconer Productions score, but I mostly agree with the things people have already stated in this thread. Thanks.

Unfortunately this is a tricky question for me to answer, and is partly responsible for my delayed response. Bruce doesn't approve of my activities on the web (surprise) and I've already had to use a lawyer to get him off my back.

If you haven't seen this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sXOquzxps

give it a watch.

Anyway, it was mainly Mike Smith, myself, Bruce, and Ben Kasparek...and a few contributions by Julius Dobos as well.

I started as an editor and eventually moved to performing and arranging as well.
Mike was mostly performing and arranging with some editing. I dedicated my Z Music album to Mike for a reason. Unfortunately Mike hasn't really made a prescence on the web or done much music lately.

I started as a music editor on episode "Frieza Fighting Power One Million".
I was the primary editor pretty much until my successor (Ben) got running full throttle. Starting with "Keep the Chance Alive" I began doing performances and arranging work as well.

Ben was 100% editing, he came later somewhere late in the Androids saga I believe. He had a big impact in the Cell Saga, notably doing the entire Gohan vs Cell finale episode entirely using editing. Ben was the only one of us who was a DBZ fan before hand. He moved from Florida to work on the show. He had the entire Japanese series on VHS, ordered from all kinds of weird places.

Julius arranged a few tracks here and there like "New Earth Theme" and uhh..."Gohan Powers Up" I think. He was hired right about the time I left. He also edited together the Trunks compendium CD as his first task at the studio. He has a website that's been down for a while now: http://juliusdobos.com/ He used to have some pretty slick content up.

I don't really feel comfortable putting out a full track list of who did what....that's a good way to get Bruce breathing down my neck again. You can kinda figure some of the major ones out from the video I linked.

Oh I'll give Bruce props on some tracks that were 100% him:

Opening theme (well the guitar was played by a hired gun, but yeah)
Ginyu Transformation
Cell Jrs Theme (well Mike did some FX work, but the arranging, performing, etc was Bruce)
Guru Theme
SSJ3 Theme(speculation...I was gone when this was done, I actually think this was all him)
Closing Music

Good job on those Bruce SSJ3 is pretty clearly the most popular of all.

[Patient-mental]

I'd really love to know who the "gun" for hire was

[misterion]

If you haven't seen this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sXOquzxps

give it a watch.

Anyway, it was mainly Mike Smith, myself, Bruce, and Ben Kasparek...and a few contributions by Julius Dobos as well.

I started as an editor and eventually moved to performing and arranging as well.
Mike was mostly performing and arranging with some editing. I dedicated my Z Music album to Mike for a reason. Unfortunately Mike hasn't really made a prescence on the web or done much music lately.

I started as a music editor on episode "Freeza Fighting Power One Million".
I was the primary editor pretty much until my successor (Ben) got running full throttle. Starting with "Keep the Chance Alive" I began doing performances and arranging work as well.

Ben was 100% editing, he came later somewhere late in the Androids saga I believe. He had a big impact in the Cell Saga, notably doing the entire Gohan vs Cell finale episode entirely using editing. Ben was the only one of us who was a DBZ fan before hand. He moved from Florida to work on the show. He had the entire Japanese series on VHS, ordered from all kinds of weird places.

Julius arranged a few tracks here and there like "New Earth Theme" and uhh..."Gohan Powers Up" I think. He was hired right about the time I left. He also edited together the Trunks compendium CD as his first task at the studio. He has a website that's been down for a while now: http://juliusdobos.com/ He used to have some pretty slick content up.

I don't really feel comfortable putting out a full track list of who did what....that's a good way to get Bruce breathing down my neck again. You can kinda figure some of the major ones out from the video I linked.

Oh I'll give Bruce props on some tracks that were 100% him:

Opening theme (well the guitar was played by a hired gun, but yeah)
Ginyu Transformation
Cell Jrs Theme (well Mike did some FX work, but the arranging, performing, etc was Bruce)
Guru Theme
SSJ3 Theme(speculation...I was gone when this was done, I actually think this was all him)
Closing Music

Good job on those Bruce SSJ3 is pretty clearly the most popular of all.

Great info and vid, Scott. Thank you for sharing the truth about the origin of the tracks. I actually visited FPM a few times as a client between '03 and '06... it was kinda amusing but sad to see how things work there so I'm not surprised about the secretive behind the scenes stuff you mentioned. As I saw BF had another guy working on editing DBZ towards the end of the series... I got to meet Julius Dobos a few times, too.. nice guy with great talent and an awesome studio. Actually he wrote SSJ3 (so kudos to him!) and probably more tracks than we know about... I wonder how many other "synthesists" there were...