Posted by Bill on 01/31/07 14:34

You're right. Point well taken. I can see this happening very easily,
especially with younger musicians.

I would think the feature director might have had better luck with older
musicians, especially with some jazz grooves.

And I do remember being shocked, when I was a young teenager, to hear
that Dylan had recorded an album in Nashville using session musicians.
The article I read pointed out that these guys were cracker-jack pros
who would appear at 3:00 in the morning, if called, in a pressed suit
and tie (!), wait patiently to be called in, and then lay down the
superb tracks quickly and efficiently. I believe one gentleman played
bass and horns on the same take.

As an aside, there's a great story about a long Dylan song, "Sad Eyed
Lady of the Lowlands", which apparently was recorded in one take after
practising just a few verses. All the session musicians thought it
would be verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus. It went on for
13 minutes! You can hear the band going into a big finale at the end of
every verse after 3 minutes, then, surprised, continuing into the next
verse.


Steve King wrote:

> friends on an independent short feature. For that the producer did put the
> arm on a bunch of musician friends and a studio owner. We spent the better
> part of two days trying this and trying that, playing footage over and over
> in the hopes that it would inspire wonderfullness. For the most part that
> didn't happen. In the final edit about three-quarters of the film score
> ended up being created from library music. It might have happened
> differently. But, it didn't. So, I remain a skeptic. My advice to video
> producers, if one cannot afford professionally produced original music,
> still is to rely on library music. And, to spend enough time in the
> selection process so that the dreadful stuff can be avoided.
>
> Steve King
>

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