08-02-2015, 08:34 AM
I've been waiting for this for quite awhile. I think the film was actually finished in 2006 but it took them this long to come up with the money to pay for the royalties for all the music they used in the film. It was also nice to see a lucid Glen Campbell after watching him in the Alzheimer Documentary.
Basically all the music that was recorded in the sixties and early seventies was played by a core group of musicians in Los Angeles. The songs were all written in the Brill building in New York and they were all performed by the wrecking crew. They were called the wrecking crew because they were going to wreck the established order of the music business by daring to play Rock and Roll. But they were young men and one woman and they just wanted to play. They were knocking out an album a week at some points. You pick your favorite theme song and one of these people played. Especially strange was to see Cathy Kaye play the bass riff for the Mission Impossible Theme. And there were a lot of moments like that.
The film was a bit disjointed. Part of that was the director was the son of Tommy Tedesco who was one of the leading guitar players of that era and he had passed. At times it was more homage than story telling. There was the rise and fall of the group. They devoted a lot of time to their work with the Beach Boys and the Monkees. And it was funny because although both the Beach Boys and the Monkees used the same methods to record their albums, it was only the Monkees who got in trouble for it. Granted, the Beach Boys did have Brian Wilson in the studio with the Wrecking Crew every step of the way.
If you want to hear a lot of your favorite songs from the sixties and like some good anecdotes, you should stream this on Netflix. HP factor of 0.
Basically all the music that was recorded in the sixties and early seventies was played by a core group of musicians in Los Angeles. The songs were all written in the Brill building in New York and they were all performed by the wrecking crew. They were called the wrecking crew because they were going to wreck the established order of the music business by daring to play Rock and Roll. But they were young men and one woman and they just wanted to play. They were knocking out an album a week at some points. You pick your favorite theme song and one of these people played. Especially strange was to see Cathy Kaye play the bass riff for the Mission Impossible Theme. And there were a lot of moments like that.
The film was a bit disjointed. Part of that was the director was the son of Tommy Tedesco who was one of the leading guitar players of that era and he had passed. At times it was more homage than story telling. There was the rise and fall of the group. They devoted a lot of time to their work with the Beach Boys and the Monkees. And it was funny because although both the Beach Boys and the Monkees used the same methods to record their albums, it was only the Monkees who got in trouble for it. Granted, the Beach Boys did have Brian Wilson in the studio with the Wrecking Crew every step of the way.
If you want to hear a lot of your favorite songs from the sixties and like some good anecdotes, you should stream this on Netflix. HP factor of 0.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit
