sunnuntai 23. heinäkuuta 2017 12.18.37 UTC+3 Phil Allison kirjoitti:
Iain Churches wrote:

I was in LA recently and visited a rhythm section player
from the Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" Orchestra.


** Hope he doesn't own any hand guns ....

He probably does .. most Americans seem to.
But I went their to dinner not for pistols at thirty paces:-)

The recording scene back then in LA was amazing. There was a comparatively small group of musicians who were doing all the studio gigs. Studio time is expensive, so and by using session musicians who were very good readers, the producers could save a great deal of time and money.

These same few people, known as the First Call Crew, went from studio to studio, often five gigs a day. The bass player, a very talented lady called Carol Kaye told that in the late 60s and early 70s she was earning more than the President !

Iain