Talk:Crossroads (1986 soundtrack)

Unsourced and irrelevant sections

There's all kinds of stuff in this soundtrack article that doesn't belong here. This confuses the soundtrack article (about a 37 minute audio CD) with the soundtrack and score of a 99 minute feature film. And there's a bunch of stuff that has no source, confuses recording equipment with film props, is someone's opinion, or is just plain wrong - that stuff doesn't belong on Wikipedia at all.

Gear

The "gear" section is unsourced, partly nonsense, and otherwise irrelevant to the soundtrack. In particular:

• The claim that Vai's guitar is a "Charvel San Dimas" is false. The San Dimas model didn't exist then (Charvel guitars put "San Dimas" on their early models, but that was the place they were built, not the model name). This Guitar World story identifies the guitar (with actual research) and it's a one-off. Moreover, we have no evidence that the on-screen guitar was used to actually record the audio - as Guitar World calls it "the most famous guitar that was never heard". As this article is about the soundtrack album (which doesn't even feature the duel) then this is another reason not to have this here.
• Again, the Carvin is irrelevant - it's for a section not in the soundtrack, and we have no evidence the on screen prop was used to record the audio.
• Ditto again for the Telecaster, and again for the Pignose. These are props. Discussion of props doesn't belong in the article about the soundtrack. Worse, the stuff about the Telecaster being water resistant is comical WP:OR.

So I'm going to remove this section altogether. I will add the identity of Vai's on-screen guitar to the film's article, where it belongs, as we have a good reference.

Miscellaneous information

All of this is irrelevant to the soundtrack album. Discussions of filming locations and actor training belong on the film's article (again, with references, which this hasn't). And the duel (Vai's "Bad Horsie" and "Eugene's Trick Bag" stuff) isn't in the soundtrack.

So I'm going to remove this unsourced section too. I will try to add sourced information to the film article (I've found a bunch of sources about the music, which I've put on the film article talk page for now). But I'm not going to cut-and-paste this chunk of unsourced stuff.

Film's music chronology

This is fine, good encyclopedic content. But it's about the film, not the soundtrack album. So it should be on the films article - where I'll move it to shortly.

In conclusion

We should have more information about the filming, about Arlen Roth's playing, about Maccio's training, about Kanengiser's contribution, and about the composition of "Eugene's Trick Bag", but that should be sourced, and it should be on the film's article. And we would certainly benefit from information about the recording of the soundtrack, and that would belong here, with proper sources (unfortunately I don't think the soundtrack album has much in the way of worthwhile liner notes). -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 12:20, 22 June 2021 (UTC)