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 Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:17 am |
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| catgod29 at (no spam) home_on_the_range.com... |
| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:55 pm |
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I'm surprised the members of the Wrecking Crew haven't been
immortalized by now. Or that a movie hasn't been done about them.
But, I like that headline, "Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew." Yeah,
right! They were playing on a lot of records before he started using
them. Btw, any idea as to how many members of the Wrecking Crew are
still living? I know that some have died but haven't heard very much
about any of the ones still around. I think guitarist Carol Kaye was
the last member I saw anything on, and even that was a few years ago
in the magazine DISCoveries, before it folded. |
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| Mister Charlie... |
| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:23 am |
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"catgod29 at (no spam) home_on_the_range.com" <catgod29 at (no spam) aol.com> wrote in message
news:939b3119-4ff0-47df-8149-d345d1fdac35 at (no spam) c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
Quote: I'm surprised the members of the Wrecking Crew haven't been
immortalized by now. Or that a movie hasn't been done about them.
But, I like that headline, "Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew." Yeah,
right! They were playing on a lot of records before he started using
them. Btw, any idea as to how many members of the Wrecking Crew are
still living? I know that some have died but haven't heard very much
about any of the ones still around. I think guitarist Carol Kaye was
the last member I saw anything on, and even that was a few years ago
in the magazine DISCoveries, before it folded.
There IS a movie making the rounds in a very limited way right now (recently
played in Seattle). It is expected to come to dvd soon and is highly
anticipated by many. It is totally about the Crew and not Spector per se. |
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| catgod29 at (no spam) home_on_the_range.com... |
| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:35 pm |
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Quote: There IS a movie making the rounds in a very limited way right now (recently
played in Seattle). �It is expected to come to dvd soon and is highly
anticipated by many. �It is totally about the Crew and not Spector per se.
That header, "Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew," has the same kind of
cringe reaction as the one for "Don Kirshner put together the
Monkees!" I'm guessing however that any knowledge the writer has of
the Wrecking Crew was their involvement with the Spector-produced
recordings. And either he didn't know or it just didn't occur to him
that their work predated Spector and that they played on many other
recordings around the same time as the recordings produced by Spector.
The WC deserve the recognition for their work in pop and rock music;
they worked on a staggering number of recordings that I don't think
that anyone has taken the time to count. They were at the top of their
game as session players and no other group of musicians have ever come
as close. Not even the Nashville musicians. |
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| Jan Dean... |
| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:00 pm |
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The wrote:
Quote: http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/wrecking%20crew%20set%20for%20rockwalk%20honour_1071202
That oughtta give them all a good reason to go out and get "wrecked." |
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| Jan Dean... |
| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:01 pm |
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Mister Charlie wrote:
Quote: There IS a movie making the rounds in a very limited way right now (recently
played in Seattle). It is expected to come to dvd soon and is highly
anticipated by many. It is totally about the Crew and not Spector per se.
"Standing in the Shadows of Gold Star?" |
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| Inyo... |
| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:49 am |
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catgod29 at (no spam) home_on_the_range.com <catgod29 at (no spam) aol.com> wrote in message
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Quote: I think guitarist Carol Kaye was
the last member I saw anything on, and even that was a few years ago
in the magazine DISCoveries, before it folded.
Carol Kaye is most famous and well known as a studio musician/bass
player--and a darned good one, at that. Somewhere I read that she also
played 12-string guitar with Zappa, but her primary claim to fame is that
she could play the bass, under exacting-demanding studio pressure, like few
others have ever been able to do.
My solo, acoustic guitar version of "I'm A Believer"
http://members.aol.com/Waucoba4/music/imabeliever.html |
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| catgod29 at (no spam) home_on_the_range.com... |
| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:27 pm |
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Quote: Carol Kaye is most famous and well known as a studio musician/bass
player--and a darned good one, at that. Somewhere I read that she also
played 12-string guitar with Zappa, but her primary claim to fame is that
she could play the bass, under exacting-demanding studio pressure, like few
others have ever been able to do.
Carol Kaye also played a weird type of guitar on the Jewel Akins hit,
"The Birds and the Bees," which sounded like an electric organ. Every
time I heard that song before I found out the instrument was some kind
of guitar, I thought it was an electric organ being played through a
Leslie speaker. Kaye also backed Neil Diamond on guitar and backing
vocal (as part of a three piece band) on his 1970 live album that was
recorded at the Troubadour. She had a nice voice and hope she still
has, although her main claim to fame will always be playing on all
those hits. She also has another claim to fame, I believe, in that she
was one of the first women playing on a recording session, in which
she was playing in the rhythm section as opposed to playing in an
orchestra. |
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