Of course there's music on a bunch of old show tapes. If there's no music on the tapes that's even worse. The music in most Laserium shows was edited. Recreating the edited soundtrack would be a stone plated bitch. And working with old tapes just sucks !period! I know a little about which I speak. With Jon's complete support I brought back Laserium I, Lightyears, & The Beatles back To St. Louis in 2013/14. It was interesting, incredibly hard, and it consumed about two years of my life including every bit of my bandwidth. Still I gained a ton of insight about the reality of doing live planetarium laser shows in this decade, and I really enjoyed getting the Email below:
"Keep making miracles, Brian, you're on a real roll! If I had had to guess which city, if any, would have resurrected Laserium...well, I guess it would have to have been the one you happen to be in!
With admiration,
Ivan"
Finally - my advice to anyone who thinks buying two decade old automated show tapes is simply: caveat emptor.
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." Pablo Picasso