[Dixielandjazz] Re: Musicians Faking In Movies

[Robert S. Ringwald]

Dick Miller Dick_Miller at pmug.org wrote regarding the film, "The Gig:"

(snip)
I was a bit surprised to see Allen Vache', who was both the cornet player in 
the movie and the music director of the film, when his fingerings didn't
match the notes. Then I thought about it a while. They often do a number
of takes of a scene, and could well have used cuts from different takes to 
make up the total scene  as it wound up in the movie, accounting for the
differences.
(snip)

Dick, It was Warren Vache Jr., not his brother Allan.

However, you are absolutely correct.  The film editor was not about to take 
the time to match up Warren's fingerings with the music.  Not only that, Bob 
Barnard did some of the trumpet work on the film as Warren was sick.

I mentioned once before that in a commercial that I did playing banjo, the 
slide up the neck for the last chord did not match my hands at all.

 In this case, I was actually doing the playing.  However, when a musician 
is called in to simulate playing on film, it is called sidelining.

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--Bob Ringwald K6YBV
Placerville, CA USA

"There are three kinds of men:
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