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An amazing story beautifully told!
First saw this on my local Public Television station and was stunned to find most of my favorite music from the 60's and 70's was performed by a core group of studio musicians known as The Wrecking Crew.
Here is the promo blurb: Music lovers will be astonished at the influence The Wrecking Crew wielded over rock and pop music in the 1960s and early 1970s. These unsung instrumentalists were the de-facto backing band on hit records by The Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny & Cher, Elvis, The Monkees and many more. These dedicated musicians brought the flair and musicianship that made the American West Coast Sound a dominant cultural force around the world.
Stylishly directed by Denny Tedesco, this does a great job of honoring his father Tommy Tedesco and the rest of the crew that was on just about every major hit of the era.
Excellent production values, superb audio (make sure you listen in 5.1), and directed with a lot of heart. Make sure you get the 2-disk version for all the bonus content.
The best money you even spent on a DVD. Do not miss this.Read full review
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Wrecking Crew - Music History
Complete detailed musical history of the iconic west coast studio musicians who backed the Beach Boys, they were the Monkees, Byrds, Sonny and Cher, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Turtles and many, many more. With musicians such as Glen Campbell on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, Hal Blaine and Earl Palmer on drums, Plaus Johnson on sax, Tommy Tedesco on guitar and more in a tight, small core of musicians whose names never appeared on albums and represented the best of music out of the California studio scene. So many musical memories and histories makes this video fly by and gives you an insight never before documented on film as this is.
Bottom line, this is a must see if you are into any music, especially of the 60's. The bonus CD is worth the price alone.
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The Wrecking Crew
This is an absolute must for musicians and fans of any era of music. No one really knew these fantastic musicians were backing all the great songs in the 60s until it was revealed, years later. Many very excellent musicians went on to become stars on their own after they left this group, but most impressive, IMHO, was Leon Russell - The Master Of Space And Time. Read full review
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Most Interesting
When you want to find out about the Hollywood recording scene, during Rock Music's growth years (late 50's - 70's) this is the documentary to get. Learned more than I expected about the background of the session players used on many of the hits of the era. These professional musicians were super talented and knew their role in the formulation of the music. Most worthy of being in my library of Music-Related DVD's.Read full review
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Fascinating!
"The Wrecking Crew" is a movie that explains quite a bit about the background of many of our favorite musical artists, but the thrust of it is the interviews with a selected group of studio musicians, who played on untold numbers of recordings. While it is wonderful to hear & see these characters, and fascinating to watch this DVD, I wanted to hear more of their stories. ...that is a good thing. If you are a lover of music, from the Nineteen-fifties, through the Ninineteen-eighties, then you will really like this movie.Read full review
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YOU LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY
Great Info I never Knew. All these years, and recently find out this group, of fine people
were the heart of the music for 1000's of songs, from the 60's and early 70's.
Any person who has not seen The Wrecking Crew and likes the music oldies
should have this. Seems they were behind so many hit's. As Dick Clark stated,
I never knew until the Monkee's came out. Enough said, get it.Read full review
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If you love music from 60's or 70's watch this.
FABULOUS....very informative. Music lovers will love this DVD. Soooo glad we bought it. Have already passed it on
to another musician and he said he loved it also. It will probably be passed again. It's the West Coast version of
"Standing In The Shadows of Motown" which if you haven't seen.....buy it. Read full review
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Great dvd
Provides information about a bygone era where unknown backround artists did most of the famous music of the 60s and 70s.
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"The Wrecking Crew Dvd Review"
Excellent documentary of the backup of musicians, that I did'nt know played on so many artist's songs. Well worth having in mine and your dvd collection,and how much it takes to produce a hit song.
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The Wrecking Crew proves that you were wrong!!
Excellent documentary done by Denny Tedesco, son of guitarist Tommy Tedesco!
When I was a young drummer in the 1960s, outside of practicing rudiments, reading marching band & orchestral charts, and studying exercises in books by Chapin, Podemski, Rubank, Stone, etc., a majority of my development came from listening to and playing along with the drummers on recordings by Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Beach Boys, Sonny & Cher, Tommy Roe, et.al. Unbeknownst to me at the time, all my favorite drummers were Hal Blaine of the Wrecking Crew! The same is true for guitarists, bassists, keyboardists, saxophonists—in most cases, who you thought were different players who were members of different pop groups were in fact a few West Coast studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew...Read full review
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