Documentary About The Wrecking Crew About To Show At SXSW And Other Fests

Noticed the sign for this outside the IFC Center but have yet to see.

IFC is showing it in their tiny screening-sized room, just fyi

Recently showed up on Netflix. Streaming now. So far thing was happiest to learn more about Plas Johnson.

Mickey Dolenz is very funny.
Herb Alpert looks like Merle Haggard.
Bones Howe is a Nabokov fan.

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?

I still need to see this

there are moments in that doc that actually give me chills. my kinda history.

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".

After months of licensing, the compilation soundtrack is now available

Two years after we've all downloaded it

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.

I've never really loved Phil Spector girl group music for example -- I enjoy it but it's just not what excites me.

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.

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

bump

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

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.

my new hero is carol, bass queen

this movie is so badly put together!

Yeah i couldnt get thru 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

Was it on this thread that someone linked to a giant chronological playlist? I know I downloaded a copy.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9-FfwwXRDg

Louie Shelton. You might be suprised at what he played on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv9J6-6Fmfc

Or you can read it here
http://louieshelton.com/

Or here:

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=6458

RIP Max Bennett

X-post-Shelton with quite a resume

X-post-Shelton with quite a resume

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

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

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]

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]

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]

Cool. Wonder if Laurindo Almeida rates a mention.

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"

Wow. How come I never heard of that guy before? And of course, Laurindo Almeida is mentioned pretty early on.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/arts/music/bill-pitman-dead.html

102 year old Bill Pitman rip

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...