No lie. This is the soundtrack that made me start playing bass. Your work is beautiful man.

I think time has told....and this score is a classic! Thank you for that gift to our lives

@@james_k70 , Thank you James. I didn't realize it at the time, but "Wizards" has truly been a gift to me.

@@MorBroProductions Mr. Belling, this was an amazing soundtrack...and one that has stuck with me since I first heard it. This track especially. The bass work, the guitar, keys...all of it. I have been trying to find a place to either get it digitally or on CD. Any ideas sir?

Wait did Bakshi himself give this to you? This wasn't from some CD or album? That's amazing! And good on you and him. I love wizards. If I could, I'd want to go see the timeline where Wizards got more sequels and a video game.

At least they let Larry go.

@@virgogaming6488, That beast, of a thousand scales! As Avatar wisely said to Weehawk. Without Blackwolf, He was harmless.

Despite them being literal nazis? I mean, I agree with your point…but I still feel the need to point out that Blackwolf turned them into a fourth reich.

@@8158bolga This points honestly hits even better in modern day and age. Fragile, mentally unstable, tragic or overall sorrowful humans frequently tend to turn to extremist political ideologies, be their left-wing or right-wing, believing that these ideologies will solve all their issues.

Failed cultures often turn to totalitarian fascism. Failed people too.

Yeah, it's really cool!

nobody cares

@@Joe_S.s Don't sweat it, Joe. Maybe you juet haven't met the right people yet.

Progressive rock was also popular at that time. Also, I've heard that this movie's theme was against technology, as sort of 'back to nature' ideology that was trendy at that time. I hadn't been born yet, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

Yeah man, this is 70s prog rock, another great musical product of the 70s

It's so 70's I immediately became a hippy and a disco ball appeared on the roof.

***** You mean ceiling?

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Yeah, ain't it cool?!

The movie is a bit hypocritical, when you think about it. The story preaches against technology, the same technology that was used to make the groovy soundtrack. Oh, and Avatar kills Blackwolf with a PISTOL, even after trying to keep everyone else from having technology. A line from Blackwolf: '....enough to keep mutants in their place' was telling. I can see the people from the good lands being snobby and elitist. They also have tech, the same tech they want to keep out of everyone else's hands. Today's "liberals" are like that. They virtue-signal all day long about equality, but are themselves closet aristocrats. They own guns, drive inefficient SUVs and fly around in private jets to lecture the unwashed masses about our "carbon footprint."

Gonna agree with you. There was something about animation and the music that went with it from this era that is just...solid.

I agree...

best screne play, best original idea, best hand made animation... I wish that in a bluray !!!!

@@leonardopinhel1219 it is, and it is awesome

Definitely has a Jethro Tull esque sound to it, which is nice.

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My fave one on it!

OH YEAH! All because of those dirty, rotten, yellow, fairies! Those atrocity filled vermin! Ruining our moments, and costing us medals!

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Bakshi's greatest flaw was his overuse of Rotoscope. If he could have mustered the artistic and animation quality of say, Don Bluth mein Gott we wouldn't be talking about Disney these days. But

@@BigTuk I would say that the Rotoscoping is pretty much Bakshi's style. Some of the scenes are barely rotoscope at all, and are virtually just Monochromed/tinted scenes from war movies with a few Glowing eyes, wings and fangs added. The scenes from "Zulu" and "Zulu Dawn" are particularly noticeable.

@@BigTuk i feel rotoscope fit well for Fire and Ice and American Pop as those two films were more grounded and less cartoonish

Love the crustiness of it. Like a hole-in-the-wall tavern or your stoner friend's apartment.

@@srbrant5391 u sit down in your stoner friends couch and he says I made that couch from recycled wood from a actual pirate ship.

What I found disheartening was the Nazi propaganda footage backed up by the very last track in the video - the film used WWII as a symbol of war and corruption, and it really showed when the elves lost the battle. It showed that even in a futuristic world, war and corruption were just as abundant as they were in the 30's. It also brought me back to a quote from one of the fairies earlier in the movie- "they have technology and machines, all we have is love"

Silver Feral Thunderbird Personally I thought the film reel footage was a brilliant move on the part on Bakshi.

I always thought if it as a metaphor for the death of the age of chivalry and magic in the face of industrialized warfare and propaganda. Or rather, the end of a fantasy world where good and evil were always so cleanly delineated, replaced by the harsh reality of modern warfare, where “good” and “evil” are traits no longer defined by any balanced moral code of ethics, but are defined by the “us” vs. “them” dialectic of modern nationalism. The faerie folk are thus doomed not because their cause is weak (after all, they are fighting for their own homes) but because their enemies are technologically superior and fanatically resolved to destroy them. They can fight as bravely as can, muster every ounce of spirit in them, and for time, even seem to have the upper hand, proving once and for all that good will always triumph evil. But then here comes the Luftwaffe.....

@@EagleTimberWolf a vast bulk of the mutants weren’t actually evil, just misguided

This film inspired all that

@@aeonsbeyond D&D predates Wizards, but I’m certain that the film helped define the feel of the game for decades onwards.

Actually, one of the background designers of Wizards, Ian Miller, also worked on illustrating both Warhammer games.

@@Wojti2000Zapasowe Well aware! One of the reasons I love this film.

THEY KILLED, FRITZ! THEY KILLED, FRITZ! STINKIN', YELLOW, FAIRIES! VERMIN FILLED ATROCITIES! THEY KILLED, FRITZ! 😫

"Avatar, the Old", is our only hope! But, only time will tell... 🎶🎸 🍻✌

'Weehawk'

“Funny you should say that”

I love its understated menace. So much cooler than the modern overbearing orchestral assault.

Sounds like a cool idea, a Wizards cover band. Sounds like something Ronny James Dio would have been interested in if he had not been in the Rainbow band at the time in the late 70's.

If we were in the same state I'd be down. I got a fender and a wah wah pedal. Only reason I'm brave enough to say this is cus I've had a few beers 😂