trilobitepictures wrote:Remember how they mentioned that the score was not going to get a release to CD and upset we all were? Remember how fans like you and me and Chris Knight signed petition after petition to get the score released? Remember how Steve Jablonsky was so grateful that the fans cared so much and was thanking them left,right and center for it?
Yeah, way to thank Chris Knight and all of those loyal fans of the movie that made the release happen. Peter Jackson listed each member of the Tolkien fan clubs BY NAME in the credits of the LOTR Extended Editions on the DVDs, yet you couldn't squeeze in "Chris Knight" and "all of the fans who made this CD release possible" into the Thank You section of the liner notes?
Dear trilobitepictures,
Why the bitterness? I mean, I'm Chris Knight, and I'm not bitter or resentful at all.
Why
should my name be in the liner notes? I had nothing to do with the inspiration and composition of this music. That was Steve Jablonsky, and then he and his crew made the music.
They are the ones who deserve to be listed in there, not me or anyone else who didn't figure into the process.
Heck, I
wish that I had the kind of talent that these people do!! I would love to be musically adept. But I don't have that. For whatever reason, God didn't believe that I needed that kind of gift. That doesn't mean that He doesn't give me
other gifts though, that can be used and appreciated. It doesn't mean that
you are left out either, or anyone else for that matter.
Don't envy someone else for the talent that they possess, or for the success that they have earned. Because more often than not they really did
earn that success, through years of sacrifice and hard work and sometimes more struggle than you probably really care to know.
Instead, do the best with what you have been given, and learn to be content with that...
...because chances are you might discover that what you've got is plenty enough to be proud of, in your own way. And that it will more than suffice.