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How do you become a session musician in Australia?

― Sair J., Monday, 5 September 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Get a guitar and go to australia. Then get an 'I am a session man' badge. Wait and see what happens.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

*ABBA joke*

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Get a guitar and go to australia

surely you meant didgeridoo?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

They have enough didgeridoo players.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

but none with chops, man!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Using this random thread as a starting point -- session musicians, the indie era, via Matos:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/10/indie-session-musicians-broken-social-scene

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:55 (fourteen years ago)

that doesn't get at what i think is really responsible for the revival of the session musician - technology has made it so common now for one person to make the record on their own, then need to hire a band to play live. bon iver, neon indian, glasser, zola jesus, etc etc. and those are hired 'rhythm section' players, not just horns & strings like that article focuses on.

― adult music person (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:29 (fourteen years ago)

Thought this revive would be another RIP Cornell Dupree.

― stars on 45 my destination (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:03 (fourteen years ago)

fans shudder at tales of Motown vet Bob Babbitt being recruited to "sweeten" Tina Weymouth's crafty bass playing on the first Talking Heads album

Did not know this tale was widespread enough to have said effect.

― stars on 45 my destination (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:09 (fourteen years ago)

xp "four level tablespoons of boilin' Memphis guitar."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Loy55z4GpA&feature=player_embedded

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

x-post--is there a RIP Cornell Dupree thread?

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 15 May 2011 18:17 (fourteen years ago)

How do you become a session musician in Australia?

― Sair J.

first you must be a bellhop

― great zanders' ghost (buzza), Sunday, 15 May 2011 18:22 (fourteen years ago)

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