Something I had never heard of until recently...
I was talking to my boy the other day, who was an ‘old skool’ DJ, old skool in the sense he DJ'd at clubs and parties in the early 00’s, so he used to have to carry around mad flight cases of records and mix and scratch on traditional turntables rather than the digital ones DJs use now...
Anyways we started talking about DJs and how they used to be a major part of a group or even a duo etc and I said the DJs name even went before the MC alot of the time and I gave the example of ‘Eric B and Rakim’… He then blew my mind and said ‘yeah did you know Rakim did alot of ghost scratching on their records???’... Wait hold up, WTF is ghost scratching???
He hit me with the screw face and explained that alot groups and duos used to get in outside DJs to perform cuts on their records in the studio, then when they performed live the crew DJ often used to fake the cuts that the studio DJs performed in the studio… This info blew my mind… Essentially I guess 'ghost scratchers' were like session musicians that some rock/pop groups sometimes get in to play instruments in the studio…
Had anyone else heard of this term ‘Ghost scratchers’ and got any examples???
Anyways so I Googled it later found this article by the legend DJ Rob Swift:
SOURCE:
I was talking to my boy the other day, who was an ‘old skool’ DJ, old skool in the sense he DJ'd at clubs and parties in the early 00’s, so he used to have to carry around mad flight cases of records and mix and scratch on traditional turntables rather than the digital ones DJs use now...
Anyways we started talking about DJs and how they used to be a major part of a group or even a duo etc and I said the DJs name even went before the MC alot of the time and I gave the example of ‘Eric B and Rakim’… He then blew my mind and said ‘yeah did you know Rakim did alot of ghost scratching on their records???’... Wait hold up, WTF is ghost scratching???
He hit me with the screw face and explained that alot groups and duos used to get in outside DJs to perform cuts on their records in the studio, then when they performed live the crew DJ often used to fake the cuts that the studio DJs performed in the studio… This info blew my mind… Essentially I guess 'ghost scratchers' were like session musicians that some rock/pop groups sometimes get in to play instruments in the studio…
Had anyone else heard of this term ‘Ghost scratchers’ and got any examples???
Anyways so I Googled it later found this article by the legend DJ Rob Swift:
SOURCE:
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