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Ronnola
http://www.artistinterviews.eu/?page_id=61&parent_id=22
Garson took the advice never to become a superficial studio musician from Bowie’s musical director and prominent fellow Spider From Mars, the late Mick Ronson.
[ superficial studio musician?]
...Mick Ronson conducted the audition by the piano in the famous RCA studio in New York... Mick, who was a well-trained musician and also a great pianist, gave me the chord changes to the song ‘Changes’. He put it up to the music stand. And I think I played only six or eight bars, six or seven seconds, and he says: “You have got the gig!” ... I teach a lot of music and, whether it is classical music or jazz, if somebody plays four bars I know everything about their playing. And he knew. ... I will tell you a funny story about Mick Ronson. I remember standing outside a bus with him, before going on a tour, somewhere in 1972. And he said: “You can make a lot of money in the studio, and you would be great studio musician. But I recommend you don’t do it.” And I listened to it.
