Originally Posted By: eddie1261
Remember too Pat that a lot of those guys were also live play musicians. Hal Blaine played in Vegas for years as well as doing all that session work. John Denver and Nancy Sinatra alone kept him rolling in dough and that was in tandem with the studio money. I think in the movie he said he made $5000 a week with John Denver and that ran like 10 years. Do THAT math, and that was just one gig.


I should qualify my statement.

I realize most of these people made good money... especially for musicians.

But there's a difference between working for an hourly wage and working for a stake in anything that can continue generating income long after you worked on it. I don't know for sure whether any of these people negotiated any kind of residuals... I'd almost bet they didn't. So even though they made good money while they worked, as soon as the hourly worker stops working, the money stops flowing.

It doesn't work that way for the people who hired them. That's the point I was trying to make.

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