General Music Chat

it bugs me when I am listening to a great album, or even a mediocre sound recording, by maybe a semi-famous celebrity level group of musicians, and when I hear guitarists playing brilliant musical passages, and I am wondering is that really so and so playing that or is that a hired gun a studio session player playing that? I wonder why albums and CD's and the like are not more focused about the credits on each tune, actually detailing who played what on each tune.. guess it does not matter that much, but it has always bugged me, say listening to Gaucho by Steely Dan wondering who was playing lead guitar on "Time Out of Mind" was it Becker? was it Lee Ritenour? who was it?

Here you go Dayne/ Wiki...

Fagen and Becker hired Mark Knopfler to play the guitar solo on "Time Out of Mind" after hearing him play on Dire Straits' hit single "Sultans of Swing". Several hours of Knopfler's playing were recorded at the session, but his contributions as heard on the record are limited to a matter of seconds.

Here are the players for Gaucho Ritenour is not on the list

Steely Dan[edit]
Donald Fagen – lead vocals, synthesizer (2, 3, 4, 5, 6), electric piano (2, 3, 4, 5, 6), organ (6)
Walter Becker – bass (2, 4, 5), guitar (2, 5), guitar solo (4)

Additional musicians[edit]
Rob Mounsey – piano (3, 4, 5), synthesizer (7), horn arrangement (1, 5)
Don Grolnick – electric piano (1) and Hohner Clavinet (1)
Pat Rebillot (6), Joe Sample (7) – electric piano
Steve Khan – guitar (1, 3, 4, 7), lead guitar (6)
Mark Knopfler (5), Larry Carlton (7) – lead guitar
Hugh McCracken (2, 5), Hiram Bullock (6), Rick Derringer (6) – guitar
Chuck Rainey (1, 7), Anthony Jackson (3, 6) – bass
Bernard Pretty Purdie (1), Rick Marotta (2, 5), Steve Gadd (3, 6, 7), Jeff Porcaro (4) – drums
Crusher Bennett (1, 4), Steve Gadd (2), Victor Feldman (2), Ralph McDonald (3, 6), Nicholas Marrero (6) – percussion
George Marge, Walter Kane – clarinet (1)
Tom Scott – alto saxophone and clarinet (1); tenor saxophone (1, 3, 4, 6), Lyricon (3, 6), horn arrangement (3, 4, 6)
David Sanborn – alto saxophone (5)
Michael Brecker (3, 5, 6), Dave Tofani (5) – tenor saxophone
Ronnie Cuber – baritone saxophone (5)
Randy Brecker – trumpet (1, 4, 5), flugelhorn (1, 6)
Wayne Andre – trombone (6)
Michael McDonald, Patti Austin, Valerie Simpson, Frank Floyd, Diva Gray, Gordon Grody, Lani Groves, Leslie Miller, Zachary Sanders, Toni Wine – backing vocals[37]

THANKS! Jahva.. Mark Knopfler was all the rage back then..he even played with Chet Atkins some as I recall

Here you go Dayne... pretty cool tune with Chet and Mark...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaBTHu9JSB0

Ooh. That's rough.

I have the album with that song in it. That is one of my favorites. It reminds me of a laid back Don Williams style song presentation. Thanks for posting the link.