Marvel May Be Planning To Replace Jonathan Majors As Kang, But We Shouldn't Expect Announcement "Anytime Soon"

@Gabimaru -

Reminds me of Jessica Jones and Black Sails, but I hear those two you're saying.

@Reeds2Much -

Nah, I'm guilty of still being a sucker for those beats, but that's not even my favourite part. It's folk blend with rock/metal background riffs that does it for me. Like, folk metal is literally my absolute favourite subgenre of music.

Symphonic folk metal.
Symphonic ethnic folk metal.
Symphonic ethnic folk power metal.
Instrumental symphonic ethnic folk power metal.

...okay, I'm done.

@StSteven -

Thanks for sharing yours too, man! I love reorchestrations, so yeah, I'm familiar with that album. My favourite single track has to be the orchestral version of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven, but my absolute favourite symphonic rock album is Scorpions' Moment Of Glory, and my favourite symphonic metal band has to be Nightwish.

@StSteven -

I feel like we're more or less on the same page, so I think you'll at least appreciate the sound of Nightwish. They're a symphonic / power metal band from Finland, with a hint of folk element too.

I personally play the keys, whether it is classical piano or the synth, though never having undergone any formal musical education, just playing it by ear. Typically into old school rock sounds as a teen (born in '91), later going more into metal and its subgenres, and through cinema I got more and more into orchestrations and symphonic arrangements, whether it os original classical music or renditions of more modern riffs.

Those redo's of tracks that you mentioned is why one of my favourite gaming franchises in terms of soundtrack (besides the obvious Zelda and Final Fantasy and such) is Monster Hunter. It's heavily symphonic with ethnic instrumentations, and has released dozens of albums with renditions of its score in rock, jazz, swing, music box, you name it. Hell, even in the recent One Piece adaptation of Netflix, my favourite track of the score is one where the main theme is played over and over again in different styles, depending on the characters shown on screen.

As for Hall Of The Mountain King, yeah, it's an earworm that I whistle several times a day, haha. Though my personal jam is a 3/4 walz rendition of Gerudo Valley from Ocarina Of time. I spent over a year experimenting on that thing, and still add small changes to it every time I play it.

@StSteven -

Totally worth the share. Thanks, man! Now, if you'll allow me a shameless plug for a fellow compatriot...



...yeah, this has to be the one for me. Vivaldi is a classic (pun heavily intended) but Yanni's instrumentation with the full orchestra, his synth in the background, the violin duet and the harp solo? Mwah, chef's kiss!

@DrReedRichards - Also, regarding that cut from Phish, one of the things that I love about them is their ability to improvise (i.e. JAM) live, which you don't often see with bigger name bands during large performances. I mean most have their rehearsed solos and whatever, but I do love "jam-bands" (and for Phish that goes back to their jazz roots I think). For example, when I was looking up a good cut of that "ASZ" jam to share, I watched a couple of different videos just from this year and the were all quite different (with the exception of the common "ASZ" chords). One cut from MSG in July actually ended with them transitioning into the chords from "Hold Your Head Up" by Argent at the end. Gotta love that kinda improvisation, especially during live performances.

@SauronthePower @DrReedRichards - Damn you! You beat me to it! I was literally thinking about them after I posted my last post when I was off doing something else around my house and I meant to mention them and forgot. Yes, Keith Emerson is a f**king god. I don't know if you've ever sen them in concert, but I did once when I was an undergrad and it's a crazy-ass story: my buddies and I drove from UIUC up to Chicago to see them and the show was itself amazing. Keith was dressed like Zorro and probably the craziest part was when he was going off on a solo and dragged this small organ out from backstage and was hammering away at it and rocking it back and forth so that the reverb box (or whatever it was) in it would crash in rhythm. The he took 2 daggers (yes daggers) out from his belt and jammed them in between the keys to hold the chord. He threw the organ away them went over to his grand piano, whacked the arm out from under the lid, climbed on top of the piano, and played the rest of the solo upside-down laying on his stomach! Jesus!!!

Then (and I'm not saying these events were in any way connected) my car caught fire and exploded on the way home (looping in @bkmeijer1 just so I don't have to repeat this story as this is going to be a lot of typing). Seriously. We had crashed at one of my buddy's places in Chicago after the show and headed back to school the next day. And about 30 miles north of UIUC, my engine started overheating (which was odd because I had thoroughly inspected everything before taking the roadtrip, topped off all the fluids, etc. - I should mention that it was a '85 Mercury Topaz so there's that). Anyhow, I pulled over, popped the hood, and saw that the blower had become disconnected. So I put it back on, got back in and started driving again. A couple of minutes later the car started overheating again, so I pulled over again. This time it was the radiator cap that had come loose, so I added some fluid, put the cap back on and got going. Now there was smoke coming out of the tailpipe but I figured that it was just the engine burning off the radiator fluid that had splashed all over when the cap came off, so no big deal. Then some people in another car pulled up next to me (we were doing about 65mph on the highway), rolled down their window, and said "You car's on fire!". I was like "What's wrong with the tire?" They said "No your car is on fire! You need to pull over!". And I was like "whatever" and my friends were like "What's wrong" and I told them that those people think the car is on fire because there's smoke coming out of the tailpipe but I'll pull over and take a look anyway.

So I pulled over, opened the hood and the f**king engine was in flames! So I shut the hood and grabbed a handful of my buddy's clothes from the trunk to bat the flames out with (we had stopped at our respective places along the way to get our winter clothes) and went to open the hood again but the hood had melted shut and there were flames coming out from underneath (my hand also ended up with very nasty burns from grabbing the hood). Anyhow I ran back and basically told my friends "Um, yeah, the car's on fire and it's going to explode any minute so we need to run!". So we all. ran a ways away and when I turned around the car was engulfed in 6-8 feet of flames (naturally there were idiots driving by who would slow down to look at it including -and I'm not making this up- a school bus). And then the flames hit the gas tank and kablooey! The only thing left of the car was the charred chassis. We lost everything that was in the car including those clothes, all our CD's, cell phones, my buddy who was a music major's binder of original music (yes, DrReedRichards, that same piano player friend of mine), all my equipment (I had a side job as a contract painter at the time), etc.

We got a ride back to town in an ambulance (for my hand) but the kicker was that the hospital was on the other side of town so we had to walk back to campus.

So, again, I'm not saying that there was a connection, but as I said ELP and especially Emerson were really... on fire during that show.

@bkmeijer1 - Yeah, I figured that I'd get around to telling you that one sooner or later so now seemed like a good time as it folded into our discussion on music and specifically ELP. If you ever get a chance to seem them, just remember:

Keith Emerson == 🔥

@lazlodaytona - He would have if they knew what they were doing,it doesn't help that Majors over acts, look at Timely and having Kang get defeated in every movie or show.

Watch Avengers:Earths Mightiest Heroes that's how you do a Kang story.

He was great in that.

@marvel72 - total agreement, I thoroughly enjoyed his first appearance as HWR, but he was over the top as Kang and Timely.

And earths mightiest is also the version of Kang I enjoyed most, his first appearance specifically.

@DrReedRichards - don't pay attention to him

@Batmangina -

So, you wanna sound more aggressive against the MCU? For what, being once (and still) the most financially successful cinematic franchise?

It's one thing to want it dead, it's another to call it before it's even out of the top.

@Batmangina -

"...will now root for the absolute destruction of the MCU..."

@Vigor - How dare you assume my gender.

@Batmangina -

"If you think anything they've done since then is even remotely close to the Spirit of Marvel Comics as moments like those, you are mistaken."

She hulk and hawkeye are accurate af
You haven't read a comic in your life have ya?
Your issue is that they are now focusing on the women heroes when before it was the men

BTW this guy is only 21 😒