Norm van Maastricht
From:
California, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2012 7:35 am |
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Gentlemen…
I’m working on a biography of Paul Yandell and as I get into it, it is also being something of a ‘life and times’ view of the Nashville based sideman, both session guy and those who went on the road backing the stars of the day.
What I’m hoping you folks can provide is a fair idea of what scale was for the bandsmen were paid for going on the road with stars.
I assume there was a general per diem rate for obscure, relatively unknown players and perhaps a special rate for known sidemen like Billy Byrd etc.
Also would like to know the scale rate for Nashville studio work. Am curious if the “A-Team” first call musicians got double scale for sessions.
Doesn’t need to be specific but the years I’m most interested in are 1955, 1975 and 1985.
I ask here because this forum seems to have more musicians that actually do/did it for a living.
…always an education coming here…
Thanks in advance
PS You can PM me if you wish. If you care to share a specific 'war story' I will be happy to look at it and perhaps edit it a bit. If I do this I will let you see what changes I made on your contribution. I may credit you directly or list you as a contributor, or leave it as an anonymous contribution. I haven't gotten to that part of documenting
Some non-steel folks have already contributed good stories of The Times, some of which I'll use, some not.
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