Averatu wrote
Which is the emoticon for 'I are f****ng dissapoint!'. Currently its my face!!
I've previously posted favourably about working with session musicians, but I'm having to retract those statements.
Another session drummer just dropped us, the second one, we've been working with him since October, learning songs, get them tight etc. The previous guy did one rehearsal, for which he was totally unprepared, cancelled a few rehearsals, and then jumped ship. The new guy just informed us he's over committed and cant dedicate the required time to our project.
The problem might be this, neither of them where able to play our stuff off the bat, they had to 'work on it' get the blasting up to speed etc... But either of them could walk into a rock/new wave indie band and deliver. I'm thinking the effort of building up to the required level is too much, so we get dropped in favour of another gig that requires no input in learning new skills.
Balls! >☹
I don't know how it works in the pro music world but, when you sign up a session muso, is there some sort of service level agreement or whatever? I mean, is he really just hired on a per session basis or do you hire him for a specified period of time or specified number of gigs? I'm just asking because I should think he should agree and commit (and put signature on paper) to a certain number of practice sessions and a certain number of gigs. If he reneges like in this case he should be held for breach of contract.
Just wondering out loud basically.
