For musicians, worst job imaginable.

[Archae]

No, not playing some dive out in the sticks.

Worst job I can think of for singers and musicians, jingles for ads, especially on the radio.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. How about having your song appear on the Lifetime Movie of the Week? nt

[Archae]

3. At least with that...

It only appears when the movie is telecast, which isn't that often.

But a studio musician's jingle gets heard over and over and over and over...

[no name no slogan]

2. I know a guy who does jingles, and he does pretty well

Of course, jingle-making is becoming a lost art, as most ads just license an already popular song and use that, instead of using an original creation.

Jingle-making can be fun and a challenge, and is oftentimes more lucrative than slogging around in a band, playing nightclubs six days a week.

[redqueen]

5. For some of those musicians, the jingles subsidize the slogging. (nt)

[Danger Mouse]

4. Being in Nickelback.

[Bake]

7. Or Rush.

But wait, this thread was about MUSICIANS ... that lets out the Rush personnel.

Bake

[SoxFan]

10. Opening for Nickleback

Imagine being booed by people who think Nickleback is good.

[mikeytherat]

18. Sound tech personnel for Nickelback (especially the poor souls at the board)?

At least the opening band might change, or they might leave the tour. The sound guys at the board have to listen to the band, night after night after night after night after night...

Every f**king song. Every f**king night. Over and over.

That is some good, old-fashioned nightmare fuel right there.

mikey_the_rat

[Jamastiene]

27. Nightmare?

That sounds like at least the 7th level of Hell to me. :scared:

[bif]

6. I think being in a wedding band would be far worse

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. I'd play jingles any day over CCC

(contemporary christian crap)

[Symarip]

9. Playing Disneyland

I speak from experience. Nothing sucks worse.

[MilesColtrane]

11. It's a very good job actually.

You make about $80-$100 an hour.
The work's during the day, so you can still play at night.
If the session's done under a union contract you get reuse fees. i.e. $$ every time it's broadcast
Very few people can actually identify that it's you cranking out the cheese. (easier if you're not a singer)

There are many more gigs out there that have soul-killing potential over jingle sessions.

[mikeytherat]

15. Amen! Jingle gigs can be sweet money.

Come in, plug in the G&L, read, play, and leave. And you can have the answer to the eternal question:

Q: "Why is someone beating the hell out of that bass in the background of that commercial?"
A: "Because someone else wrote it that way."

mikey_the_rat

[unpossibles]

12. being in Celine Dion's band? nt

[HopeHoops]

13. Simple - being a heavy metal tribute band asked to play at a polka pavillion - AND NO FREE BEER!

[EastTennesseeDem]

14. Drummer in Spinal Tap

[KG]

23. or keys for the Greatful Dead

[KitchenWitch]

16. Elevator musician

somebody has to make those gawdawful recordings.

[mikeytherat]

17. One of my favorite quotes ever from "Futurama":

"Without robots, who will clothe us, and feed us, and compose our smooth jazz?" - Hermes Conrad

mikey_the_rat

[trackfan]

19. I would love to have that job.

I am a clerk, which is a far worse job for a musician.

[mitchum]

20. Being the guitarplayer for John Mellencamp...

I can't really go into more detail detail about it.
However, the unreleased Ryan Adams song "Blowing The Coug" may give you a hint.

[evlbstrd]

21. That's good money.

Oh, well.

[Demoiselle]

22. Singing jingles isn't so bad...

You only have to get it right once. Of course, the advertising audience out there has to hear it again and again.

[bluesbassman]

24. May I present the king?

[Kat45]

25. I know a dude who was one of the California Raisins.

I think he made good money from it, and he sure wasn't embarrassed about it because he told everybody.

[Schema Thing]

26. Olive Garden's new "Italian Mariachis!"