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