An amazing read: http://prosoundweb.com/recording/mm/week1/mm.php It took me two reading sessions to complete, since it is so long. Enjoy!
A really funny story - I may have to start calling some of the posters here 'Cotton.' I couldn't help but wonder if the session drummer was Kenny Aranoff. Jeff, I hope your recording experiences haven't been this melodramatic. Even my ex-band (which was dysfunctional beyond all comprehension) didn't self-destruct in the studio like b**** Slap.
I really like the part where the b**** Slap drummer (Cotton) who can't play on the beat or play the same part twice tells session drummers his approach to drumming
My favorite in my own recording experiences was when in 1989, the management of the band I was playing in booked a week for us at the studio Scum & Hosebags (aka Guns & Roses) used to record Appetite for Destruction. We wanted to use the week to record 4 songs really really well. Our management wanted us to use the week to record an entire album - 12 songs. Guess who won out? You guessed it...MANAGEMENT. We came out of there with 12 songs that sounded very half-assed, putting it mildly, and the management company dropped us later that year after actually trying to shop that trash.
This was absolutely one of the best reads I've had in a long time. I'm just pissed that Mixerman didn't continue. Do any of you guys know why he quit posting his diary?
Mixerman has his own forum here: http://recpit.prosoundweb.com/ Poke around there and see what you can find If do find out, let us all know.
I can answer that... He is currently on hiatus from the BS sessions..Harmon disappeared..noone knows where..Cotton is obviously ****e... Lance started writing his own diary of the drummer auditions..and him and MM had a falling out...you can read Lance's entries in Fletcher's forum... MM claims that as soon as the BS sessions re-start, he will continue them.. BTW,..he's asking for ppl to tell why they should replace Lance as his second..anyone interested? Evidently Lance lost the second gig and if I read it right..he might b close to losing the replacement bassist gig also... I love this saga! Reminds me of the good ol days tracking records..we werent as screwed as these guys..but some of the stuff we did was pretty nutty...
