Rascal Flatts’ Jay DeMarcus Came to Play
Filed under: Country News
When Rascal Flatts went into the studio to make their self-titled debut album in 2000, they recorded it with Nashville session players. But they had a goal in mind for next time — they were determined to play as a band on their own records.
“That was our argument,” bassist Jay DeMarcus tells Bass Player magazine. “That’s what Joe Don Rooney and I do. He plays guitar and I play bass — and there’s no reason to call it a band if you’re not gonna have the guys in the band playing on the records.”
When it came time for the trio to go back in the studio a couple of years later to record their second album, ‘Melt,’ which they also co-produced, the band stood their musical ground in the session-cat-dominated Nashville scene. Jay remembers a defining moment in the studio, for himself as a bassist, and also for Rascal Flatts, as a band.
from The Boot
