bobby graham the legendary session musician of the 60's (kinks DC5 etc) talks about life as a session musician and his memories of all the sessions he did with jimmy page
Had the absolute honour and pleasure to have known him personally and he is definitely the reason I started and still am playing the drums! Thank you and you’re being missed
Yes..this is like lifting the veneer off the table ..you see what you get. Jimmy Page and actually lots of other artists make it look so easy sometimes and non-chalante like it is just all thrown together last minute. However from watching this you can see what real players do and bring to the table and the work they did to get there. To play on that many records you have to be a consummate pro and be able to perform consistently. Under their veneer lies real wood...actually there is no veneer!! It also shows you how many talented people there are out there but how very few hit it big. Writing, creativity, stage presence and interpretation supersedes all the talent in the world ...yet if you can combine both it is magic. Its nice to listen and hear stories about where people came from. It would be really interesting for an interviewer like this to sit down with Jimmy Page and delve into his musical past instead of the usual press crap about fame etc. I want to know more about what drove Jimmy out of the session scene. What motivated him? Why so much passion. What was he reading about watching? What was going on around him at the time. Who he was listening to or going to see..chatting with ..who his influences were to expand out to play more live in front of people. What his vision was actually. So many questions. He is a walking treasure trove of history from the 60's and beyond and nobody ever asks him more than superficially about all his experiences along the way with all these great musicians. I would love to hear that sort of thing. From Jim Morrison ..to Hendrix ..to whomever. His perspective would be sooooo sooooo interesting!!! Recording....the music industry ...Life!!!!!
hello james, bobby was a jazz player and lover his favourite artist was stan kenton. he got an offer of a job playing at a holiday camp for a band that later became the outlaws.his first answer was no i play jazz and when he realised that the pay was good he "became" a rock drummer. there he was spotted by joe meek who needed a band for his new artist mike berry so he recruited the band bobby was in. He then used them as his in house band most notably on johnny remember me. then he made them into an instrumental band (probably due to the success of the shadows). Joe wouldn't pay them, take their credits for song writing and one day bobby argued back too much and got thrown out. but he had created a reputation for his playing and was in great demand for sessions. so there wasnt a plan to get into sessions for him more a series of events that lead him that way. he also played for joe brown and marty wilde around this time but preferred the freedom of doing sessions and he did 15000 !!. it was only when he burnt himself out and partied too hard he got off the session merry go round. Jimmy was an incredibly talented player and john paul jones would often do sessions too. these were the finest musicians going, who all rolled up to sessions with no idea who they were playing for and produced magic. pretty much every song from that era would feature these guys to a degree and they left a brilliant legacy and no one knows who they are because they didnt have the fortune to be in a band that hit big
@@elvisleslie61 Joe Meek. I think Ritchie Blackmore did some sessions with him I believe. See all this history and not many people know about it. I think Ritchie Blackmore actually too guitar lessons from Big Jim Sullivan to start. It would be amazing to get all these cats in a room ..the ones still alive to reminisce about this period in time. Would be very inciteful!!!!
@@jamesbond4633 not many left i am afraid. here is richie with the outlaws including chas hodges ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IECo3FAGQBw.html
a lot of drummers and guitarists started out as jass lovers and made more money doing rock. Bobby's comments about Jimmy not being able to read music but having a great ear, was also the case of the late Glen Campbell
Some annotations from this interview, for anyone who may be interested: @ 01:39: The Vernons Girls - Do The Bird (1963) @ 04:27: On Drums: Hal Blaine @ 05:19: Cliff Richard - Move It (1958) @ 06:19: Brenda Lee - What'd I Say (1964)
it sure did Dan its the definitive interview to me and i know a lot of it is JP central but there is a lot of good stuff about his life as a session musician
I love these types of interviews. We learn so much about certain recordings, who played what, with whom, and when. I had no idea Bobby played the drums in so many hit songs. All this time I thought it was someone else, yet it was Bobby Graham all along. Is there a website that indicates exactly which studio musicians participated in the many recording sessions throughout the years?
