 The music was upside down and Tommy was reading it backwards. Now, that's a true story. But you talk about getting a laugh out of it. Tommy was a cut-up. A session or a recording date, as they called it, would be three hours long. Now, the musicians would go to work many times not knowing what they were recording or whom they were recording with. Most of the time, the music was just written out, but many times they would have to come up with ideas that worked for a song.