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

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

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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...