From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #283 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Thursday, September 29 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 283 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Kunkel, Sklar, Doerge, and Kootch, njc [Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Kunkel, Sklar, Doerge, and Kootch, njc Jim, I confess I don't know much about them individually, although I had a nice hang with Lee Sklar once as we stood in the buffet line at a Library of Congress ASCAP event (I mentioned to him in passing that I have a band that performs just the music of Joni Mitchell, and he replied, "great book.") Session players have always tended to form little outfits that work together well and have a great sound together. The guys you list called themselves "The Section" and were one stop shopping for songwriters cutting an album in the early 70's LA. Max Bennett was part of "The Wrecking Crew" which played on hundreds of sessions together also. Nashville had (still has) its session cliques and New York of course. A by-product of this was a certain homogeneity to the records coming out of one town, so you get the "L.A sound" or the "Memphis Sound." The way studios recorded was also a big factor in defining the sound of an era and a region. Dead sounding carpeted drum booths were the norm in 1971 and the bottom heads were usually removed from the toms (the John Guerin, Russ Kunkel sound) and vocals were pretty dry in the mix compared to the 60s. The jazz world of the late 50s and 60s had its cliques of rhythm section guys and recording engineers that defined those eras. The Beatles were out of the norm because the playing was done by members of the band who were not seasoned studio cats and who did not (at first) play on anyone else's records. This started a new trend of small combos where the fans knew all the players' names and what they looked like. Dave On Sep 28, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Jim L'Hommedieu wrote: > Kunkel, Sklar, Doerge, and Kortchmar were (are?) big time names on some of my favorite rock albums. I guess we call that category "soft rock" now. Ya know- all of those records by CSN, CSNY, CN, S, Jackson Browne, Carole King, and James Taylor. I don't know anything about any of them except that Kootch was in The Flying Machine. > > Can anyone fill in the gaps? > > Jim L'Hommedieu > now playing: a little remembered gem called "graham nash/david crosby" which includes "Immigration Man", "Page 43", and "Southbound Train". > > PS, What was up with digest #280? It looked like it had a collection of old posts of varying age. I nominate it for "The Strangest Digest Ever". ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #283 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------