Posts Tagged ‘friday night lights’

The semi-autobiographical “Almost Famous” challenged Cameron Crowe and Danny Bramson to create a real rock band . . . Stillwater. The rest is history. Seventy-seven songs made it into the film! With the support of Dreamworks, Mo Ostin and David Geffen it was the ultimate playground! The first to convince Led Zeppelin to license their more »

How did Bruce Springsteen’s “Secret Garden” make it into “Jerry Maguire” as score? The original plan was for jazz and early, unreleased Miles Davis . . . but that gave way to a partnership with Sony’s Glen Brunman (Forrest Gump) and become the first release for Epic Soundtracks. The search through album tracks for score more »

“Say Anything” brought Danny Bramson and Cameron Crowe together again. The boom box scene, which Bramson imagines as Romeo and Juliet, was temped with Wishbone and reggae but together they pivoted to accomplish the impossible and landed Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”, with the help of David Geffen. First they learn in a phone call more »

From Backstreet Records and Tom Petty’s Damn the Torpedoes to making movies with Cameron Crowe . . . in Part III of The Interview, Bramson shares the beginning of music supervision, where coordinating talents like Peter Gabriel and Led Zeppelin was a yet “under-acknowledged” job category. Together with Joel Sill (Forrest Gump, Castaway), Becky Shargo more »

In Part II Bramson tell’s Q Score host Jonathan McHugh how Backstreet Records came to be. He shares a special story about how Bob Dylan’s return to the stage accidentally played a part in signing Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers to Backstreet. Bramson also shares insight into the golden age of the Fillmore East and more »