Q: I got a serious question (as opposed to the humor about the book): What was this book going to give us that we don't already know? We have IMDb, other books, liner notes, interviews, JGOnline, etc.Well, those sources have all been quite imperfect and incomplete in my experience, though I've been doing my best to help Jason correct and update the JGOnline listings over the past few years. But the complete works list, with chronology, in Jeff's book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive listing of every Goldsmith credit that I (originally for The Goldsmith Odyssey podcast) have been able to confirm with a high degree of confidence. My podcast colleague David worked with Jeff to make the listing chronological, including recording dates whenever that information was available -- and our mutual friend Jon Burlingame was able to provide a lot of recording dates from his research (done back in the 90s) which were not available elsewhere.
But Jeff's book has much more than a comprehensive list of everything we can confirm Goldsmith having done. He also compiled all of the extant Goldsmith interviews he could find, organizing them chronologically, to present all of the behind-the-scenes insight possible about Goldsmith working on all his films. And Jeff also discusses Goldsmith's actual *music* written for many unreleased radio and TV scores, in particular -- maybe think of that to some degree as liner notes for Goldsmith albums that may never (or may, one day) exist.
There is a LOT of content, with entire lengthy chapters dedicated to major scores like Alien or Star Trek: The Motion Picture. These contain a lot more information about Goldsmith's work on those projects than could ever fit into a CD-sized liner notes booklet.
It's an epic tome requiring two whole physical volumes (if they ever end up printed that way) so you can rest assured that even if you think you're well acquainted with Goldsmith's output, there will be some revelations here. It's a comprehensive reference guide to Goldsmith's entire composing career (again, everything we've been able to find and confirm that he did, to date). Much more than a mere "bottlecap" IMO, which is presumably why the Kickstarter campaign got a whopping 1,444 backers! It'll be a real shame if it doesn't ever manifest in physical form... but even if it doesn't, the PDFs will stand as an incredible resource for Jerry Goldsmith fans.
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