Saturday, April 10, 2004
"... sounds that continue to cycle through a musical culture informed by nostalgia and sampling, wherein all music past is eternally present. These players built their careers on an ability to be both extraordinarily present and completely invisible -- an ability appropriate to the making of music, the most ethereal art. (It is made literally of air.)
"Studio musicians were not interested in becoming 'stars' ", bassist Carol Kaye, one of the few women to be part of this world, writes on her Web site. "We were part of the process in business to make people into 'stars'. " And yet something beats within the American breast that finds such modesty . . . suspicious, tragic, even perverse -- that demands credit where credit is due, longs to hear the unsung hero sung, the secret identity revealed."
LA Weekly's Robert Lloyd provides a brief history of a disappearing breed, the studio musician: time of the session (When the music was fast, and the players anonymous).
(via AJD)
¶ 4/10/2004 06:56:00 AM
"Studio musicians were not interested in becoming 'stars' ", bassist Carol Kaye, one of the few women to be part of this world, writes on her Web site. "We were part of the process in business to make people into 'stars'. " And yet something beats within the American breast that finds such modesty . . . suspicious, tragic, even perverse -- that demands credit where credit is due, longs to hear the unsung hero sung, the secret identity revealed."
LA Weekly's Robert Lloyd provides a brief history of a disappearing breed, the studio musician: time of the session (When the music was fast, and the players anonymous).
(via AJD)
¶ 4/10/2004 06:56:00 AM
