But he says he enjoys keeping busy with music. Zimmer passed on scoring several film projects to have time to prepare for the tour. “Oh, God, there’s a whole ‘What If We Did This Tour’ that we could do,” he said. Zimmer said he wished he could have gotten in a few bits from “The Last Samurai,” “Thelma and Louise” or “Pearl Harbor.” In a funny way, it was about what would delight the audience, something they didn’t see coming or something that would surprise them, so the show is really all about that.” “So nothing, really, was about musical reasoning. There’s a huge chunk of ‘Gladiator’ that I wanted to leave out, but they ganged up on me again, like it was a revolution going on, and I think the thing that persuaded me was someone saying, ‘Hans, you have to put that bit in – they play it at ice hockey games!’ “I have sort of a core band that I work with constantly, and I got everyone into the room and I thought everyone would be agreeing,” he said. Zimmer has amassed such an extensive body of work that it was difficult to narrow down what would be in the show, he said. The show is done in two parts and includes some of Zimmer’s classic movie scores along with re-imagined versions of the scores for “The Dark Knight” trilogy and “Inception.” Certain sets have had special guest musicians, including Mike Einziger of Incubus, Johnny Marr of the Smiths, and producer and R&B singer Pharrell Williams. Get over it.’ So yes, it’s still there, that stage fright, but I know now that it’s just not going to kill me.” “So I thought, ‘OK, what are you worried about? Tomorrow will be fine.’ I woke up the next day in complete and utter terror, and I went ‘Get used to it, Hans. “The roof didn’t collapse and people weren’t throwing things,” he said with a laugh. Zimmer said that after the first night in London, after rounds of applause and things going off without a hitch, he had a little more confidence. That is not an excuse!’ I thought, too, that after all this time, writing this music, and in a funny way, hiding behind the movies, the honorable thing to do would be to actually step out there and look the audience in the eye and see how it goes down and see if it moved them even without having the pictures. “Then, a couple of fellow musicians, they ganged up on me and said, ‘Look! Everyone has stage fright. The stage fright is far too much, and the career seems to be going all right, so why do I need to be doing that?’ “This show is sort of extraordinary because I was really hesitant about the whole thing,” the 59-year-old said. However, extreme stage fright almost kept him from it. He said he always wanted to do a concert tour with some of the musicians who have played with him throughout the years so that audiences could get to know them. Since the early 1980s, the German-born composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist has scored music for more than 120 feature film projects and collaborated with some of the biggest directors and producers in Hollywood.
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