I met him in 1982 at a Licorice Pizza in Southern California. He was with a little known bad called Oingo Boingo :P. He was in there moving 45 singles and he and the band would autograph them. He gave me one for free and autographed it for me, along with the rest of the band. I have absolutely no idea what happened to it (which is sad). He was very cool back then, but you could see the genius in his eyes. He looked like a mad scientist! Back then he used to wear like eye liner I believe to emphasize his eyes. I was 9 years old when I met him!

He's so blissfully unaware of his genius.

I wish I could tell him face to face how very special his music is to me and how as a fan of his I truly do appreciate his artistry and vision and how without him those movies would not have been the same.

Why has he YET to win an Oscar?!?

Danny Elfman gets it.

what about the beautiful words he wrote with oingo boingo? it wasn't the just some little rock band without depth.

Elfman is the reason I became a composer. His scores dominated my childhood television set.

I remember when the Beatles Anthologies were released, and then the Beatles' scores, Recording the Beatles, etc were released later, and exactly the things i found most 'meaningful' were those early recordings of songs with different instrumentation, different accompaniment, and even in a different meter altogether ("i'll be back" was originally 6/8 before they adapted it to 4/4 so John could take breaths) :) Those scraps, the unused/early bits, are how you learn about someone's creative process or thinking process, and if you can access that level of understanding, you REALLY come to understand the composer, and it ultimately can make the music more meaningful because you see where it started and where it ended up but you know exactly how they got there... it's demystifying while simultaneously augmenting our respect/'love' for the artist. So excited this kind of stuff gets held onto by 'mildly' obsessive people (like me)!!! :O ;)

He's so cool

There's a similar interview with Elfman, but from 2001. My lord, I thought it was a completely different person.

Danny Elfman- "I stay pretty busy" (since I was A Wrockstar on Mastercraft.) BIONG(o)!!!!!!!!!

Fall 2010

The interviewer sounds like Jeff Daniels.

couldn't hear the questions.

Fucking agreed

I looked for this box set - Amazon $4,000.00

Why wear ducsh bag hollywood sunglasses ?