Illuminights 2010
- Thread starter FlyerMiles
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Flooding the park with letters is counterproductive. Best way to deal with small things like that would be to go to Customer Service and say something simple like "Do you sell the music from your shows anywhere?". When they say no, just say something to the effect of "Well you should think about it, I'd be the first one to buy them!".
Unfortunately, BGW has no plans to release a soundtrack of the park. The idea was floated many years ago, but the cost of obtaining the rights to the songs used and being able to publish them to a publicly available soundtrack would be cost-prohibitive. The number of people willing to pay the price point that BGW was able to get was not enough to warrant an actual release.
All that being said, each year more and more music is created especially for the park. With that, publishing becomes cheaper and total price comes down. Who knows, maybe sometime in the future BGW will score a soundtrack for it's guests.
And what Swift said was 100% correct. Starting a writing campaign doesn't accomplish what you think it will. The best thing to do is go to Customer Relations and let them know you'd like to leave a suggestion. They will notate your thoughts and pass it on where appropriate. Though, I can assure you, they are well aware of just how many people are wanting a theme park soundtrack.
All that being said, each year more and more music is created especially for the park. With that, publishing becomes cheaper and total price comes down. Who knows, maybe sometime in the future BGW will score a soundtrack for it's guests.
And what Swift said was 100% correct. Starting a writing campaign doesn't accomplish what you think it will. The best thing to do is go to Customer Relations and let them know you'd like to leave a suggestion. They will notate your thoughts and pass it on where appropriate. Though, I can assure you, they are well aware of just how many people are wanting a theme park soundtrack.
About the soundtracks.. back in the late 70's; BGW had a few actual LP records of the park. I have a 1979 pressing of the Festhaus music live... complete with photos on the album cover.
It is a real shame they cannot figure out a way to make it work.. but cost is cost. Still, CDs are dirt cheap to make.. the rights to songs; not so much.
It is a real shame they cannot figure out a way to make it work.. but cost is cost. Still, CDs are dirt cheap to make.. the rights to songs; not so much.
You know, now that you mention it, the cover of one of those LPs had some "Polaroid-esque" pictures (slightly low-quality, blurry pictures) on the cover, didn't it? I seem to very vaguely remember seeing one of those many many moons ago. That's going to haunt me all day now. :\ Maybe if the recording industry realizes it could sell more music from slightly cheaper pricing rather then raising rates all the time, they'd be in a better position than they are now - but that's a whole other topic. It's a dang shame.
Whoo hoo! Just got an email from the park that I've been invited to a VIP behind the scenes event for Illuminights in July for Foursquare mayors! Boo ya.
I hear there's more invites going out for Social Media Day ... keep your eyes peeled and don't lose hope for going!
Twitter updates will be slow tonight. 3G is being mean to my equipment for some reason. At worst case, I'll update when I get home tonight. Enjoy your night everyone!
