Originally Posted by
No Pride
As far as I can tell, it's a fluke in your area. There was a time when Chicago was doing about 1/3rd of all of the county's jingles, but that time is long gone and most of the former "A list" session cats are playing broadway musicals now. I used to do some jingles, but I was never an A list guy... and it was always a short list; same guys playing on everything. To give you an idea of what a clique it was (and this was a few decades ago)... there was one day when one of the two top session guitar players was on vacation and the other one got sick. I got called for four jingle sessions in one day, and mind you, I hadn't been called for a session for two years prior. So I guess the producers remembered me after all! Once the other guys were both back, my jingle "career" disappeared again.
I did a lot of that kind of stuff from the late '70s through the mid '80s. It was by far the most fun studio work I've done (outside of making my own band's album), because unlike the set-in-stone jingle sessions, I was not only allowed but counted on to provide input, as in "what do you think the guitar should do here?" More often than not, the whole band would arrange the tunes, like in the days of The Wrecking Crew and The Funk Brothers. That kind of thing rarely happens anymore; in fact I'd say I'm in the studio about 3 to 5 times a year these days.
At any rate, I think it's awesome that you're getting all this work! Enjoy the ride... and I hope it's a long one!
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