US Band Tournament - 1st Round - The Banana Splits vs The Monkees

[Mook]

38 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Their fans were booing Hendrix off the stage.

[easytoslip]

27 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

There is zero chance Davy Jones played an instrument on any record.

I read once that Peter Talk turned up at the studio with his guitar only to be told its OK son we've got it all in hand. 

[VladimirIlyich]

8 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

I read once that Peter Talk turned up at the studio with his guitar only to be told its OK son we've got it all in hand. 

It was on the wrecking crew documentary.

[johnsusername]

14 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

I read once that Peter Talk turned up at the studio with his guitar only to be told its OK son we've got it all in hand. 

God - I feel awkward just reading that on an internet forum 50 years later. Imagine being there.

[johnsusername]

Is this the final?

[Evelyn Tentions]

Round 2.

The Monkees vs The Monkees

[easytoslip]

6 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

It was on the wrecking crew documentary.

Yes it must be, I'll have to give it another watch. 

[easytoslip]

6 hours ago, johnsusername said:

God - I feel awkward just reading that on an internet forum 50 years later. Imagine being there.

I'd of said, hey you cunts do you know who I am?, really though it must of been embarrassing. 

[easytoslip]

6 hours ago, johnsusername said:

Is this the final?

You would think so, the cream rising to the top. 

[Code]

8 hours ago, easytoslip said:

I quite like that pop song curiously enough, keep it to yourself. 

Yes, there is a reason I remember it I guess.

[VladimirIlyich]

9 hours ago, johnsusername said:

God - I feel awkward just reading that on an internet forum 50 years later. Imagine being there.

The fact he was still getting paid a bundle regardless helped relieve any awkwardness.

[Mook]

9 hours ago, johnsusername said:

God - I feel awkward just reading that on an internet forum 50 years later. Imagine being there.

Happened all the time back then, they'd have session musicians in to play the parts for the hit singles & the people in the band were told to fuck off to the pub or wherever.

[VladimirIlyich]

10 minutes ago, Mook said:

Happened all the time back then, they'd have session musicians in to play the parts for the hit singles & the people in the band were told to fuck off to the pub or wherever.

The clever musicians would actually sit in with the session musicians and just watch and learn from them.

[johnsusername]

21 minutes ago, Mook said:

Happened all the time back then, they'd have session musicians in to play the parts for the hit singles & the people in the band were told to fuck off to the pub or wherever.

Oh yeah, I know that - I had Carole Kaye playing bass in the forum ultimate band competition! She probably played on more Beach Boys songs than any Beach Boy.

 

Still, you'd think someone would have told Peter Tork before he turned up! Torkward.

[easytoslip]

3 hours ago, Code said:

Yes, there is a reason I remember it I guess.

I think we all might have similar thoughts about that if I've read you right?, then it all goes horribly wrong. 

[easytoslip]

54 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

The fact he was still getting paid a bundle regardless helped relieve any awkwardness.

I should imagine so. 

[Mook]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

The clever musicians would actually sit in with the session musicians and just watch and learn from them.

We're talking about drummers who couldn't keep time & guitarists who couldn't play a solo here. They probably weren't around when the session players put their parts down. A lot of it was done on the fly by the producers.

[aws]

12 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

There is zero chance Davy Jones played an instrument on any record.

Not so sure. He was a dab hand with the maraccas. 

[VladimirIlyich]

40 minutes ago, Mook said:

We're talking about drummers who couldn't keep time & guitarists who couldn't play a solo here. They probably weren't around when the session players put their parts down. A lot of it was done on the fly by the producers.

The session players said that band members often sat with them while they were playing but didn't specifically say which ones though. I think maybe the Beach Boys were one though.

[easytoslip]

3 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

The session players said that band members often sat with them while they were playing but didn't specifically say which ones though. I think maybe the Beach Boys were one though.

I watched something where Brian Wilson said of a particular album that the music was laid down at some studio, the Wrecking Crew I assume, and then they put in the vocals at another studio. 

I don't know fuck all about the technical side.. 

[cloggypop]

3 hours ago, Mook said:

Happened all the time back then, they'd have session musicians in to play the parts for the hit singles & the people in the band were told to fuck off to the pub or wherever.

Happened to the Silver Bullet Band in the 1980s.

[easytoslip]

There's been more interesting comments between these two er bands than any other rounds, funnily enough. 

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, easytoslip said:

I watched something where Brian Wilson said of a particular album that the music was laid down at some studio, the Wrecking Crew I assume, and then they put in the vocals at another studio. 

I don't know fuck all about the technical side.. 

It was actually four studios, one just for the reverb - it is in the Laurel Canyon documentary.

[Mook]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

The session players said that band members often sat with them while they were playing but didn't specifically say which ones though. I think maybe the Beach Boys were one though.

I didn't realise you were talking about one specific documentary, I was on about the session scene in general.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

4 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

The clever musicians would actually sit in with the session musicians and just watch and learn from them.

Eddie Cochran used to hang around the studios for session work, even after he had a few hits and didn't need the money.  He'd sit in and play guitar, uncredited, on all sorts of songs - country, rock & roll, blues, ballads, bubblegum pop - just because he enjoyed playing.

 

Great for him. Shit for any music historian trying to compile a complete discography.