Nathan Larson

[Meeja]

A few weeks ago, I was watching something something I'd recorded off the TV three or four years ago.... including the advert breaks.

In one of the breaks, the commercial for "Wanadoo Broadband" was shown - you may remember the one that had an instrumental adaptation of David Bowie's "Heroes"

I loved the track at the time, and remember googling to find out what it was, only to discover that it was a specially commissioned track, and not commercially available.

Damn.

On watching the ad again, I rekindled my search, and found out the composer of the track - Nathan Larson. I found out that the track is *still* unavailable commercially, so I sent a speculative email to Nathan's company to enquire if it was possible to purchase the track..... and got a genuienly friendly reply a day later with a high quality MP3 of the track attached.

What a top bloke.

A day or so later, I bought his album..... not sure about it yet... but will give it time!

Anyway... I just thought I'd sing Nathan's praises for helping me and my eclectic music collection!

[AL666]

Cool, what a kind gesture!

[sunny1982]

Hey there Meeja.

Any chance you could send me the Heroes MP3 track by Nathan Larson? He's a top fella and has sent me a very short version of Heroes, as the full version was deleted.

if you have the full version please send it my way. I currently listen to it via youtube (wanadoo advert), but i REALLY want the original to put on my MP3 player.

Any chance you could help me out mate?

[Meeja]

Hi Sunny,

I'd have to have a good look around, as I was sent the track a long time (and a couple of PC's ago)

The version I was sent was 320kbps MP3, and was just over one minute in duration. (The advert version was thirty seconds)

Is this any different from the track you have been sent?

[sunny1982]

Hey meeja, thanks for replying mate.

The version i was sent is 1 minute long, so it looks like we both got the same version.

Shame Nathan didnt make a full version for the public, because the track is sublime. Oh well, thank for your efforts anyway mate.

[Meeja]

sunny1982 said:

Shame Nathan didnt make a full version for the public, because the track is sublime. Oh well, thank for your efforts anyway mate.

To be honest, as the track was written specifically for the advert, I doubt that a version longer than 1 minute ever existed.

Commercials are usually made to set lengths - usually in ten second segments (10s, 20s, 30s, 40s etc etc) with 60 seconds usually being the longest - except when an advertiser goes for broke and buys an entire break and runs a commercial three minutes long (Peugeot 406? Pepsi with Madonna's "Like a Prayer"?) so music written specifically for a commercial is generally made one minute long, with shorter edits available for shorter versions of an advert.

What I am saying is that the one minute version you have is probably the longest and highest quality that exists!