Famous Session musicians

[h0b0]

We may have done this one before...


Jimmy Page before led Zepplin

Shirley Bassey, "Goldfinger" (1964)
Petula Clark, "Downtown" (1964)
Joe Cocker, "With a Little Help From My Friends" (1968)

Van Halen on Jackson's "Beat It" for a case of beer.

Edited by h0b0 on Tuesday 2nd March 01:14

[cherryowen]

Steve Lukather (lead guitar in Toto) on "Beat It" played every guitar section apart from the solo.

Stevie Ray Vaughan did all the solo guitar work on Bowie's "Let's Dance".

[jet_noise]

Rick Wakeman.
On everything!

If he does more "an evening with" type gigs then go along.
Equal parts anecdotage and ivory tinkling.

[blueg33]

Jules Holland

Eg on certain The The tracks

[rlw]

Glenn Campbell on many many things

[rlw]

Glenn Campbell on many many things.

[P5BNij]

h0b0 said:

We may have done this one before...


Jimmy Page before led Zepplin

Shirley Bassey, "Goldfinger" (1964)
Petula Clark, "Downtown" (1964)
Joe Cocker, "With a Little Help From My Friends" (1968)

Van Halen on Jackson's "Beat It" for a case of beer. The idea was to make Jackson more

Jimmy also worked with Brian Jones in December '66 and January '67 on the soundtrack to Anita Pallenberg's film 'Morte Und Tochlag', they recorded it at Olympic Studios....

[Lim]

Danny Thompson got around a bit on acoustic bass

Nick drake
Pentangle
Donovan
Tim Buckley
Graham coxon
Kate bush
Peter Gabriel
Incredible string band etc etc

[NelsonM3]

Phil Collins played of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass and George Harrison himself was known to play regularly on friends albums under different names.

Steve Ferrone is a pretty well known session musician.

[paulguitar]

Thomas Dolby did a lot before making it on his own, including the Foreigner 4 album.

Sheryl Crow was a backing singer for Michael Jackson.

[Pothole]

Russ Kunkel has drummed for a few people: Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Harry Chapin, Rita Coolidge, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Dan Fogelberg, Glenn Frey, Art Garfunkel, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Carole King, Lyle Lovett, Reba McEntire, Stevie Nicks, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Seger, Carly Simon, Stephen Stills, James Taylor, Joe Walsh, Steve Winwood, Neil Young, and Warren Zevon among others...

[h0b0]

paulguitar said:

Sheryl Crow was a backing singer for Michael Jackson.

She was responsible for many of Jackson’s signature high notes in concert. She would sing the same lyrics and they would enhance his voice with hers. Also, when he wasn’t in public he often spoke with an adult voice but used the one we got used to in interviews as part of his act.

[Kinky]

Pothole said:

Russ Kunkel

I'll take your Russ and raise you with Hal Blaine

I think he was the most prolific session player around

[Johnspex]

The late Big Jim Sullivan is said to have played on hundreds of hit records over the years.

Kenney Jones, surprisingly did a lot of session work.

Jimmy Page is reputed to have played on My Generation. Its also said that he didn't because Townshend refused to let him borrow his 12string.

[shirt]

Jimi Hendrix for Little Richard. He was briefly part of the latter’s touring band when he played on this track

https://youtu.be/NMzX72GOOEQ

[thebraketester]

Carol Kaye... not heard of her? Didn’t think so, but you will have heard her.

[paulguitar]

thebraketester said:

Carol Kaye... not heard of her? Didn’t think so, but you will have heard her.

I think the OP's point of the thread was to identify 'famous' session musicians, IE just the opposite of Carole Kaye, who is a session musician who is unknown to the majority of the general public.

The OP mentions Jimmy Page as an example, obviously massively well-known as the guitarist in Led Zeppelin but less well-known as a mainstay of the London session scene before that.

[thebraketester]

Ahh bugger. Yes quite right.

[PH User]

I think Dave Grohl has played sessions for a few bands?

[CypSIdders]

Steve Cropper!