Cannot wait for this movie to be released...

[Bill Ashton]

http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2013/ ... ever-seen/

 

[walrus]

Nice link, Bill! I agree that is going to be a cool movie!

walrus

 

[davismanLV]

Thanks for posting that, Bill. Unsung heroes, INDEED!! Can't wait.....

 

[Bill Ashton]

If one is into that, the book on the Wrecking Crew is very good also...read that last summer.

 

[Bing k]

We've been waiting for this release for a long time. Denny Tedesco has been doing private screenings all over the country raising the money to buy the rights for the music that's in the movie. All those music clips in the movie have copyright attachments that have to be paid for, before it can be released. I've seen several clips from the movie that reveal many things about the business and the performers in it. Many of those artists are now gone as are members of the "wrecking crew".

I get emails following the progress of the fund-raising for the music copyrights and schedules of private screenings.

 

[Bill Ashton]

Thanks Bing, I thought I remembered something about a copyright issue...

 

[killdeer43]

I'll line up for this one. I always enjoy behind-the-scenes documentaries that show how the end product was made, who was responsible, etc. :wink:

Thanks,
Joe

 

[dreadnut]

Thanks for that, Bill! Count me among those who can't wait for it to come out.

 

[Zelja]

I'd love to see that as well. Also, I still haven't caught that flick about the Motown guys - I need to see that one too.

 

[CA-35]

Fascinating story.

 

[southernGuild]

Fascinating story.

Yea, I had no idea those guys ( and gal) were behind all those hits! :shock: Wow!
Looks like a great watch.............I wont miss it!
Thanks for the 'heads up' Bill

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Carol Kaye's not so excited about the movie!

 

[walrus]

And here's Carol's scathing review of the "Wrecking Crew" book on amazon:

1.0 out of 5 stars

Please don't buy this book, skewered, mis-quoted, phony title., July 16, 2012
By
Carol Kaye
This review is from: The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret (Hardcover)
I was totally mis-quoted in this wrong skewered and silly book. Quotes from me are totally wrong and un-true, and I'm sure with others also. Our group of 350-400 1960s-70s studio musicians were never known by this Hal Blaine 1990-invented term, invented by someone who wanted to be famous - this book is full of slander also. The person who invented that clownish term never was good enough to be a movie film musician, so the fine movie-TV-film studio musicians are slandered...they never said that, they complimented us.....I know, I was there doing 100s of movie scores 1,000s of record date with them. No-one ever said "wrecking" at all, that's all invented by a jealous musician...

Please don't buy this phony book by a "writer" who made false promises of the "truth" (for a magazine article, never a book!) he changed my words, and others' words too, to fit his own needs for $$$ -- he wanted to be in "our studio business" etc. This is another bad poorly written wrong phony book, please don't buy.
CAROL KAYE 1st Call Bassist All Hollywood Studios, 1960s-1970s, author & leading educator, over 30 courses and tutors.

walrus

 

[southernGuild]

"The Click", sounds fine to me if that's the truth. We can handle the truth! :lol:

 

[jmac]

I'm intrigued. When is the first time the term "wrecking crew" appeared in print?

Somehow I feel that Carol Kaye isn't being 100% honest in her review, but still she raises a good point. Did those guys refer to themselves as "the wrecking crew" back in the sixties? Is it a term that Hal Blaine created years later? At the time, were they aware whether or not the songs that they played became hit singles? They played lots of sessions everyday. Most of the songs probably were pretty much the same. The vocals were added later, so there was very little to distinguish one song from another. Did they listen to top 40 radio? If a song like "Cherish" came on the radio, would there be enough in the backing track to make one of them say, "oh yeah, I remember playing that. That's me playing on the radio"?

And even though I'm sure they were great musicians, the music they recorded is mostly pretty lame. Jerry Lewis and the playboys, Spanky and our gang, Nancy Sinatra, Bobby Vee, the partridge family, the 5th dimension. Some good songs in there, that's for sure, but the recordings are about as bland as anything served up in these days of digital sampling.

 

[FNG]

There is a good documentary along the same lines about the Funk Brothers, the session players for Motown. Good movie with lots of great tunes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-PNmGMTD-s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVfF5wKF3Kg

 

[geoguy]

My recollection is that they nicknamed themselves "the wrecking crew" because older studio musicians were complaining that they were going to wreck the music business (at least as the older musicians knew it).

Ms. Kaye seems to be a bit wacky, imo. Not sure I would take her gripes seriously. My understanding is that she is actually a big part of the Wrecking Crew film.

A couple years ago I purchased some jazz-guitar instructional materials from Ms. Kaye, via her website. Along with the items I ordered, I also received a long-winded written rant complaining about how little she & other musicians were paid for their efforts on studio recordings. She also included photocopies of a couple then-recent royalty checks! Each was only in the tens of dollars.

So, I suspect that she is unhappy that the film hasn't been released & therefore she hasn't been receiving income from her participation in that film.

I can't understand why the filmmaker hasn't found some investors to pony up the funds needed to pay copyright royalties & get this movie distributed to a wider audience. The baby boomers who would actually enjoy watching this film (and pay for the privilege) aren't getting any younger!

That includes me, by the way. :lol:

 

[jmac]

geoguy,

Thanks for the info. I wonder what the older musicians thought the young guys were going to "wreck". I can see how some of the peers of Hal Blaine et al would have called them a "wrecking crew". They kept a lot of other musicians out of the studio.

Jake

 

[6L6]

I've been following this project since the beginning and I wish them every success getting it to the silver screen.

Back in the late 70's I attended a Guitar Center clinic in San Francisco. The teacher was Tommy Tedesco and his playing of All Styles of music was just OFF THE CHARTS!!!

If you have access to the old "Fernwood 2Nite" TV show DVDs, Tommy was the guitarist in Happy Kyne's band. In one episode he backs Martin Mull and really lets it RIP!

Tommy is the most recorded guitarist in history. Don't miss Tommy's book, "Confessions of a Guitar Player". Terrific read!

Bill

 

[alpep]

I saw the movie twice at namm

it is really great despite what carole kaye says