B-b-but there is already a movie.
Came to say RIP double bass player Jimmy Bond, who passed away last April unremarked by us.http://irom.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/an-appreciation-jimmy-bond-1933-2012/http://jazztimes.com/community/articles/41068-jimmy-bond-music-architecture-a-bonded-design
Check it out, when he was coming up he went to Julliard and played with Monk and Bird. http://www.theloniousrecords.com/bios/Bond,%20Jimmy%20web.htm
And check out this awesome photo:http://modernexistence.homestead.com/wrecking_crew_spector.jpg
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
Some good info and photos here: http://classicstudiosessions.blogspot.com/and here:http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?p=484106
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
Think that is Ray Pohlman on electric bass behind Jimmy's newspaper.
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
Award winning music doc needs to pay final licensing costs to be released.
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 06:41 (ten years ago) link
Just received this link, from Ben Greenman's good blog http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/12/the-session-musicians-who-dominated-1960s-pop.html The film is currently only a little more than halfway toward its two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar goal, with a stated deadline of December 21st. But because the Internet has magical powers when it comes to content distribution, much of what Tedesco has created can already be viewed online. On the film’s official Web page,http://www.wreckingcrewfilm.com/ entering your e-mail address will give you access to dozens of outtakes from the film, including interviews with Leon Russell and Glen Campbell, and vignettes on everything from Phil Spector’s famed holiday album “A Christmas Gift For You” to Perry Botkin’s discovery of Harry Nilsson. This featurette, produced for the Nashville Film Festival, includes Tedesco’s summary of the film and content from it, including footage of his father.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzShxEa1LMo
― dow, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCTw3nRG4lw
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 June 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
http:://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfP24IajV8M
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 June 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfP24IajV8M
http://www.wreckingcrewfilm.com/contracts.html
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 June 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=forv3svsYzU
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 June 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bPw-0YVXEI
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 June 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
http://www.wreckingcrewfilm.com/upcoming.html
3 Oklahoma screenings coming up
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 June 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q15LqTowvhA
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 July 2014 04:35 (nine years ago) link
http://www.laweekly.com/music/studio-musicians-who-played-on-two-decades-of-hits-finally-get-their-due-5414177
interview with Denny Tedeco. The Wrecking Crew, a heartfelt, engrossing documentary 19 years in the making, which finally sees theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles on March 13.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
Hoping for a showing in my hood
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 March 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Wow, finally.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 March 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
Nice flick, very enjoyable. Had no idea Tommy Tedesco was so funny. A lot of these musicians I had never heard speak at all, so that alone was cool. Love the parts where the musician plays along to the original record, like Joe Osborn doing his slick bass part from 5th Dimension's "Aquarius." Carol Kaye seemed to be getting along fine with Hal Blaine - I had thought there was some bad feeling between them - maybe that was subsequently?
It is a little weird seeing talking heads who are no longer alive, like Dick Clark.
This would go together really well as a double-bill with Rachel Lichtman's documentary about Boyce & Hart called The Guys Who Wrote 'Em, which by comparison is more visually unconventional, and which apparently has not yet had a proper release.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
Carol Kaye seemed to be getting along fine with Hal Blaine - I had thought there was some bad feeling between them - maybe that was subsequently?
I think she's ticked at him for coming up with the Wrecking Crew name, and disputes that they were ever called that:
http://carolkaye.com/
MESSAGE: "I'm always deeply devoted since the 1970s to the cause of studio musicians being recognized for the talent and full scope of their depth in helping to create the 1960s-70s hit records and movie/TV show soundtracks. The Denny Tedesco-Hal Blaine "wrecking" film-doc doesn't tell the real story as he said it would, it's skewered, re-edited. We were never known as the Hal Blaine-invented 1990 self-promo "wrecking crew" term - like Leon Russell, Al Kooper others say, that's pure baloney. The 50-60 of us (out of 400+ hard-working recording musicians) were sometimes called the CLIQUE and most were successful jazz musicians with fine reputations before ever doing studio work.Kent Hartman obtained my interview under fraud pretenses. His phony "wrecking" book re-invents history, please don't buy it. My book will be out this year, Carol K.I support the Howard Roberts Tribute Documentary which has many of our Studio Musicians in it.
Kent Hartman obtained my interview under fraud pretenses. His phony "wrecking" book re-invents history, please don't buy it. My book will be out this year, Carol K.
I support the Howard Roberts Tribute Documentary which has many of our Studio Musicians in it.
(tbh, I take much of what she says with a grain of salt; she spent decades claiming she, and not James Jamerson, played on "I Was Made To Love Her," "Bernadette," "I Can't Help Myself," "Dancing In The Streets," and other Motown hits.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
I thought there was also something about her downplaying Hal Blaine's actual work, and/or the extent of it, compared with that of Earl Palmer
― Josefa, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
She has a pretty distinctive sound, I reckon. Should be pretty easy to spot her.
― austinato (Austin), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Seen some mixed reviews of the film, but am gonna try to see it anyway this week
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 March 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
BTW y'all there was a virtual and unofficial 4CD box set put together to promo this a while ago. It's a really really great listen. Last time I checked there was still a working link for it on Wi11@rd's W0rmh0le5.
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Monday, 30 March 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
Noticed the sign for this outside the IFC Center but have yet to see.
― Big Iron Shirt Wearer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 04:00 (nine years ago) link
IFC is showing it in their tiny screening-sized room, just fyi
― Josefa, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link
Recently showed up on Netflix. Streaming now. So far thing was happiest to learn more about Plas Johnson.
― Exile's Return To Sender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 August 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
Mickey Dolenz is very funny.Herb Alpert looks like Merle Haggard.Bones Howe is a Nabokov fan.
― Exile's Return To Sender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 August 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
excellent movie! first half hour, 45 minutes or so is like.. some of the most exciting music doc stuff i've ever seen.
how comes Hal ended up as a security guard after being a multi millionaire?? there's.. more to that story surely?
― piscesx, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 01:12 (eight years ago) link
I still need to see this
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
there are moments in that doc that actually give me chills. my kinda history.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
After months of licensing, the compilation soundtrack is now available.
On September 14th, Pianist Don Randi is releasing his autobiography, "You've Heard These Hands".
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 September 2015 04:34 (eight years ago) link
After months of licensing, the compilation soundtrack is now available
Two years after we've all downloaded it
― Josefa, Thursday, 3 September 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
This is good, although I find something slightly depressing about it -- the whole non-stop well-oiled machine aspect of it. I'm actually struck by how little of the music is really among my favorite stuff, other than maybe the Beach Boys material. I also am reminded that I always found Hal Blaine a bit boring as a drummer, though excellent, although I love Earl Palmer.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Sunday, 6 September 2015 02:48 (eight years ago) link
I've never really loved Phil Spector girl group music for example -- I enjoy it but it's just not what excites me.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Sunday, 6 September 2015 02:51 (eight years ago) link
I don't mean to be rockist about it, but I think there is a lot to be said for the diversity of sounds that comes from bands playing their own music.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Sunday, 6 September 2015 02:54 (eight years ago) link
Wrecking Crew FB page (is it run by Tommy Tedesci's son Denny?) posts new stuff everyday, a lot of it pretty generic built every once in a while something kind of interesting. For instance today I learned about recording engineer Hank Cicalo who was previously unknown to me.e
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 June 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
bump
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 August 2017 01:43 (six years ago) link
I dunno why it took me so long to watch this. I knew a little bit about them bc of being a Leon Russell & Glen Campbell fan but jesus, the scope of the music they played on was unbelievable
I mean, in terms of all the 60's music that I love, the Wrecking Crew is technically my favorite band: I already owned like 3/4 of their catalog without even knowing it!
Doc itself was structured strangely, but yeah...enjoyed the hell out of this. immediately went to my computer & made a Wrecking Crew playlist :D
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 August 2017 01:48 (six years ago) link
Yeah it's a fun watch. A bit of a patchwork but they own up to how it was filmed/assembled over years, as you note, but it's a fine snapshot.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 August 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link
my new hero is carol, bass queen
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 August 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
this movie is so badly put together!
― kurt schwitterz, Sunday, 13 August 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link
Yeah i couldnt get thru it
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 13 August 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
Was it on this thread that someone linked to a giant chronological playlist? I know I downloaded a copy.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 August 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
Oh, it was Tyler!
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/129350927532/the-wrecking-crew-we-got-good-at-it-the
Dunno if the link is live, but you can find your way to one that works for sure.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 August 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9-FfwwXRDg
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 September 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
Louie Shelton. You might be suprised at what he played onhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv9J6-6Fmfc
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 September 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Or you can read it herehttp://louieshelton.com/
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 September 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
Or here:
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 September 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=6458
RIP Max Bennett
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
X-post-Shelton with quite a resume
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
According to this interview with Max Bennett Louis Shelton was the one who came up with the name of his band L.A. Express: http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2418
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
This has been going around fb lately. Turns out, the drums on the soundtrack are overdubbed by Earl Palmer. Apparently, Elvin wasn't properly/correctly miked during the filming. Palmer said it was without question the most difficult session he'd ever done (which makes sense: "Play a solo just like Elvin Jones. Oh, and make sure you sync up to the film").https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-IRNECavtI
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
So there was a Latino Wrecking Crew says professor/ author Josh Kun:
[/i]as been explored about this “parallel Wrecking Crew” which you could (and in many cases still can) call on when you wanted a Latin-inflected sound.That’s precisely what we tried to address with this book. We have interviews with the top living Latin American session players in L.A. We managed to track down the majority of them. [Radio journalist] Betto Arcos and I did those interviews, and he was really helpful in identifying some of those great L.A.-based players. So we have Abraham Laboriel in there, [Brazilian percussionist] Paulinho da Costa, [Colombian reedman] Justo Almario, [Peruvian drummer] Alex Acuña, [Cuban percussionist] Luis Conte, [Brazilian percussionist] Airto Moreira, and [Mexican-American percussionist] Ramon Yslas. They’re all, save for Yslas, roughly the same generation, and together they played on thousands of recordings in the United States alone. And not just in “Latin” projects, but for major commercial artists like Joni Mitchell, or Madonna, or, [/i]
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 September 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
Cool. Wonder if Laurindo Almeida rates a mention.
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 September 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
Oops. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-latin-american-wrecking-crew-a-conversation-with-josh-kun/
Kun is a professor at USC, a MacArthur fellow, and just edited the book "The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles"
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 September 2018 03:44 (five years ago) link
Wow. How come I never heard of that guy before? And of course, Laurindo Almeida is mentioned pretty early on.
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 September 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/arts/music/bill-pitman-dead.html
102 year old Bill Pitman rip
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 August 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
saw this online elsewhere: when Spector produced the enormously popular record "Be My Baby" in 1963, he named the jam session on the flip side "Tedesco and Pitman," after two of his favorite guitar players: Tommy Tedesco and Bill Pitman...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 August 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link