End of Raiders Grey Hat

[BroadSword]

Sorry if this covered else and if it is, please direct me. Can anyone tell me which grey is considered closest to what Indy wears at the end of Raiders? I'm going to order another Fed IV for our upcoming excursion to see John Williams next month. I wanted to know which is the better choice, carbon grey or moonstone.


Thanks!

[steerpike]

moonstone fed4 color is closest more to Crystal skull travel hat than the Raiders one.

[jlee562]

Carbon Grey seems a bit dark to be the Raiders hat, but Moonstone is too light.

Here's a picture of my Carbon Grey Fed IV in sunlight:

[Chewbacca Jones]

Without a doubt, Moonstone is the closest. It is a little light, but much better than the Carbon. Carbon is very dark and doesn't look like anything from the movies. quite a few Moonstone Feds are bumping around here to see.

[steerpike]

here's mine moonstone:

[your ghost host]

John Williams... where, where, where!!!

[BroadSword]

Hollywood Bowl Sept 4th and 5th.

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[Indiana MarkVII]

Did anyone get group tickets for John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl, as was discussed in another thread?

[your ghost host]

Thanks but I live in wisconsin I won't make it out

[Clutters]

Is this the same he's wearing in the plane on the way to Nepal?

[Chewbacca Jones]

Yep.

[Blackthorn]

Whew! You scared me with the title of this thread. I thought someone had declared there would be no more grey Raider's hats, that it would be the end of them! No, no, no! I love grey hats!

[BroadSword]

Nope, I was just looking for some opinions on what would be the better color. I ended up going with the carbon grey. I see some disagree, but my eyeballs told me the carbon was the closer color. Here we are at the Hollywood Bowl last Saturday:






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This is what we were going for:

[DarenHenryW]

You guys look great!

DHW

[laughograms]

Hey, I saw you guys! (Big bearded guy with an Akubra). You guys looked swell! The pics don't do you justice. Especially fitting in an art deco place like the Bowl. Should have gotten a pic in front of the muse statue out front.

A related note or two.

Bummer they didn't do any Raiders cues. My 4 year old son Jack was (in his words) "displeased Mr. Williams didn't play Indy Jones." But last year's had so much Indy, I'll forgive him. As we walked out a girl in front of us -- who didn't see us -- said "somewhere in here there's a little boy dressed like Indiana Jones who's very disappointed." On cue Jack says "I'm very disappointed they didn't play Indiana Jones." The girl turned around and saw Jack in his fedora and Crystal Skull t-shirt and lost it.

I sent Williams a note last year describing my son's fandom of his music. Jack knows so many cues by ear. Even when he was three, he'd make very specific requests from the back seat on the way to day care. He would ask me for example, to play something from that deathless cinema classic "Indy Jones and His Daddy." "Play the airplane part." Hmm. Well, there's not any score in the part where Jr. and Sr. are escaping in the airplane from the zeppelin. So I put on the motorcycle scherzo instead -- like HE'LL know the difference. Well, silly me. After about 8 bars, from the back seat there came, in the tone of voice 3 year olds reserve for parents who are idiots: "Daddy. This isn't the airplane part. This is the motorcycle part." I was stunned! (He meant, as it turns out, the comic cues from the sequence in which Indy tosses Vogel from the zep).

I sent JW a letter telling him this story, and telling him how when I was a kid, starting with Jaws in '75, I was an avid collector of his scores and how my father, himself a music professor and conductor, had a great connection over these things -- Dad took me to Tanglewood the summer Empire came out and JW had a huge Star Wars program one night -- and I met him backstage and all. He sent Jack a personalized autographed photo which Jack has hanging on the wall in his room. A real gent.