Talk:Session musician

A note

So when we are listing a musician here do you think that we should include some of his/her credits or not? Each has an article where much of tht is available - on the other hand, maybe it is useful to see 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 or 18 or 19 or 21 or . . . . . . . . . ......... well you get the idea, So, any ideas? Carptrash 03:33, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Merge Sideman with Session musician?

Regarding the proposed merging of this article with Sideman: no way. The two terms have distinct meanings. InnocuousPseudonym 06:45, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the two should remain separate articles. It would be useful if someone could write a short, concise description of the difference between the two terms that could be used at the beginning of each article. Engineer Bob 01:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Definately no merge. Cricket02 18:46, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

MOST DEFINITELY no merge 24.7.217.221 05:35, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

No merger. Session musicians are not always sidemen. Not all sidemen do session work. Whyaduck 14:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

I believe there is enough consensus against on both talk pages. I am removing the merge tag. Cricket02 07:21, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Carol Kaye

I'd like to add Carol Kaye to the list of session bassists. It seems pretty natural, since apparently she is the most recorded bassist of all time: [1]76.168.253.250 08:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)Frank ____________

DRUMMER HAL BLAINE? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.22.53.228 (talk) 02:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

I just cut this out

", ranging from a few hours to many months."

Hard to imagine a "session" player being used for a few months. Is this a reference to someone being hired to do an extended tour? Maybe? In which case, would s/he really be considered to be a "session musician" for that period/ I say "No." Carptrash (talk) 00:51, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I believe many albums have taken months to record. According to St. Anger, the recording process for that album took years. Onlynone (talk) 16:49, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Session and Studio musician

Read that paragraph for several times and tracked back in history to see, when it was introduced. Obviously it was reduced from a more extended explanation on December 16th, 2009. From what remains, I have no clue what makes the difference of Studio and Session musician (if any). The changes done on that date also left some fragments and stuff, which were partly revised until now and where I stripped another one off today. So I am not sure if the edit from December removed to many information or not. Cheers --StefanSchulzDe (talk) 12:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Fragment in Introduction

The terms "session musician" and "studio musician" now. This seems to have been introduced in the December 2009 'tidy'. I'd fix it, but I have no idea what it was intended to say. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.140.254.10 (talk) 16:04, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

I am about to remove

Peter Wolf from the keyboard section unless I hear other wise. eek aka Carptrash (talk) 19:10, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Also, this sentence "The terms "session musician" and "studio musician" now synonomous." needs work. It means what? - besides spelling "synonymous wrong. Or is this the correct way to spell it somewhere? Carptrash (talk) 19:15, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Drummers

Sorry, but the "Drummers" section is absolutely appalling... Just delete it? Any need for sections relating to specific instrumentalists? 202.172.103.51 (talk) 14:15, 5 April 2015 (UTC)