Originally Posted By: 90 dB
Not much “Wrecking Crew type studio work” around these parts. Is there a lot of that in Cleveland? Who knew? grin


What is "A lot"? 8 hours a day every day? No, there is not that. There's SOME though. Bands doing CDs that don't have a guitar player, or a sax player, or whatever player, or solo guys like a lot of us are bring in people to play parts. Usually there are at least chord charts if not full out scripted parts on staff paper. There are studios here that do commercials and voice overs that need musicians to play backing tracks. A video studio near my home does a lot of technical video overdubbing. There was a project they did for an environmental and recycling company several years back where they needed synth work done. It ranged from happy little flute music as birds frolicked in a birdbath and fish swam and kid splayed in a park to the cliche ominous "duh duh duuuhhhh" and tympani banging when they cut to the scene of polluted water running out of sewer pipes into rivers and such. That didn't pay well enough to buy a new Hummer, but it was okay. It's there if you look for it. Now, could what I did for that session translate into entertaining a room full of people? Nope. It was strictly background music, and I don't even know if what I contributed made it past editing. And I don't care. The check cleared. Every major city has that kind of work.