I just need to mention that Glen Campbell is one of the most virtuoso, diverse, and prolific guitar players of all time. When EVH was at the height of his powers in the 80's he reached out to a mutual friend to ask if Glen would give him a lesson, imagine that, even Eddie knew I'm good but Glen is on another level. Glen agreed but their friend was very clear with Eddie, do not hold back, you have to give him everything you have if you want to gain anything from the lesson, Glen can do everything you can and much more. That's how respected and adored Glen is among guitar players, the public may not know but your favorite players know and revere him.
The girl singing Be my Be my Baby is Ronnie Spectre & the Ronnets Phil's ex wife. She later reprised her vocals here on a 80s hit by Eddie Money. Also a very Beautiful woman!
Loving rewatching these documentaries with you guys! These musicians never get what's due to them 💔 Can't wait for the next section about Carol Kaye.... she's amazing 🔥
So very, very much enjoying you Gentlemen ,loving this Documentary, as well as the others you have done. The History of music is fantastic. ❤...mOre to come on this one...not jumping ahead, but " Sound City" should be next ! 😎💯✌️
Hi guys, I just came across your channel yesterday; I want to thank the both of you so, so very much for reacting to The Wrecking Crew. I have been looking for someone to react to this important slice of musical history for quite some time; you guys are the first ones that I have found, as of yet. I am a child if the 60's (born in 1956); so many of these songs were staples as I was growing up. Back then, as you may be aware, Top 40 radio played a mish-mash of genres of music; it wasn't divided up into specialties as it is in most cases today. Because of that, we were exposed to an honest-to-God cross-section of quality music that covered most of the spectrum. With all due respect, and I hope you guys can appreciate where I am coming from here; one important factor will always be missing from any of those in the generations that followed me and my friends; you (collectively) will never, ever be able to go back in time and live the experience like we did, even though we would have not appreciated it at the time. Back then, there was occasionally going to the movies (and when a movie ran it's course at the theater, it was gone forever), black and white TV (3 channels, CBS, ABC, NBC), and the radio. The Wizard of Oz (released in 1939) played on TV once a year, and I would imagine the majority of the US pubic would have been huddled around their TV sets, complete with family-sized bowls of Jiffy Pop. We would have had no idea that part of it was in color, until we saw it later on a color TV. Early home stereo systems (Hi-Fi radio, 33rpm, 45 rpm records), and portable transistor radios; usually the size just slightly bigger of a pack of cigarettes, tiny/tinny-sounding speaker, with a mono earpiece for private listening. And you know what? We loved every frigging minute of it. If you guys get really bored, you can check out my RU-vid channel; Gary David Holbrook. I just use my channel to share videos (most, but not all recorded by me) with my friends and those that may share some of my interests. I am very much looking forward to The Wrecking Crew - Movie Review (PART 3)!!!!!
Spector is not only accused of overproducing All Things Must Pass, but before that of doing the same to the Let It Be album which in the last few years was rereleased in a raw, stripped-down version
Baloney. The Phil Spector production "Let It Be" is a lot better than "Let It Be -- Naked," which is the LEAST popular iteration of that album. And you think "My Sweet Lord" and "What Is Life" were somehow overproduced? George Harrison certainly didn't agree. Spector was irredeemable as a human being, but when you criticize his production talent you make yourself a fool.
@@slipstreammonkeyHarrison disagreed. And thanks to those horns, it topped the charts in the U.K., Australia and Switzerland. It was a top-ten hit in the United States and Canada. We should all have this disease.
They also played on all the records. Brian Wilson, in addition, mostly used the Wrecking Crew from just '64-'66. This doc discredits the very talented band members a bit.
Phil Spector was in prison for murdering a Hollywood starlet. He was fucking nuts. He whipped out his gun at many a studio sessions. He produced the Beatles last release, Let It Be but in 2003 it was re-released with the title Let It Be -Naked, stripped of all the Phil Spector shenanigans.
Generally, people like the "Phil Spector shenanigans" on "Let It Be" better than "Let It Be -- Naked," which is the LEAST popular iteration of that album. Yeah, Spector was irredeemable as a human being, but when you criticize his production talent you make yourself a fool.
George Harrison hated the Spector iteration. As I never criticized Spectors production you twitt (at 9yo Let It Be was the first record I ever bought with my own money in 1970). Are you saying George was less than knowledgeable?
@@uncletom618 No, you're deeply confused. It was Paul McCartney alone who (famously) hated the "Let It Be" mix. If Harrison had hated it, he never would have hired Spector to produce "All Things Must Pass." Lennon also hired Spector to produce his first solo album AND "Imagine." And "twit" doesn't have two t's at the end.
The studio guys got paid a day rate for their work and thats it. The band itself would get paid for the live performance usually a percentage of the gate
Guys, to answer your question. When Al Jardine was talking about the complexity of Brian’s music. Theirs a lot of videos on You Tube. Regarding the making of Pet Sounds. That’s when The Wrecking Crew came in. As much as Brian had things written down. A lot of it was just in his head. And as he continued to explain to them. They listened to him until he achieved the sound he was hearing in his head. He was also starting to have a nervous breakdown. And to give you an example of how good they were. From Elvis to Sinatra, they literally played on everything.
I can’t imagine Phil Spector and Ike Turner in the studio together. Fireworks baby. That was Ronnie Bennett also known as Ronnie Spector because she was married to Phil. She had a late career hit with Eddie Money “Take Me Home Tonight.”
When I saw the Beach Boys in Vancouver in November 1964 Glen Campbell was playing bass for them...he was the most talented guitarist on the stage but his role was playing bass...
For someone of my generation(X), I need to remind myself that all of these little musical events, that may seem insignificant, were important because they just didn't exist until these people created them. Then I understand weight of these stories. When The Beatles first started recording, the engineers were old guys, wearing laboratory coats, who mostly told them what they were and we're not allowed to do.
Pet Sounds was a response to Revolver (according to Brian Wilson) and as Paul McCartney said when they heard Pet Sounds, Ok, well then we will take it up notch further to Sgt Pepper's--which is still considered by many to be the greatest, most influential album of all time (It is.) Beach Boys did not top Sgt. Pepper. Shout out to the incredible guitar virtuoso, Glen Campbell, RiP. Also a great singer--still love "Wichita Lineman" (great Jimmy Webb song--Jimmy is interviewed regularly in this film).
When the Beatles joined EMI (they owned Capital records) the research department budget was put on hold for a few years until the Beatles started selling millions of records. One of the inventions put on hold and then was able to be developed, directly because of the Beatles, was The "Cat Scan" machine.
Love this movie and the reaction…per one of the other commenters I checked out the documentary Immediate Family which profiles the next generation of session players. Excellent and worth the watch. Would love for you to react to it next!
Every studio musician got their money. Guaranteed. And they slept in their own bed every night. Don’t disparage the Road. They’re different disciplines. Most of the Wrecking Crew didn’t have the constitution to play on the Road. Don’t pity them. Everyone knew the deal.
I'm so glad you guys picked up on Carol Kaye she's been a hero of mine since I was playing bass back in the seventies. I first heard about her in Guitar Player magazine I was just a surprise that y'all to find out she played on all those classic tracks including the TV soundtracks.
The gal you said “ was gorgeous” was Ronnie Specter ( crazy Phil’s wife! ) of The Ronnettes. React to their monster hit, “ Be My Baby”. It’s absolutely delightful to see you two responding to all this with so much knowledge of the groups! ❤
Phil Spector was the main reason The Beatles "Let it Be" wasn't released until after "Abbey Road". After all their experimentation in the studio, Paul McCartney wanted to get back to a stripped down, basic studio recording and was unhappy with the way Spector augmented some of the songs with orchestration and choirs. "Let it Be - Naked" removes all that muddy sound and restores the album to the way Paul had originally imagined it.
The wrecking crew of Motown were called the Funk Brothers. A group of the same musicians that played on most of the Motown hits.The documentary The Funk Brothers is a great testament to them.
The Wrecking Crew and the Funk Brothers were not the same musicians. Although Carol Kaye tried to say she was the bass player for the Funk Brothers and not James Jameson.
The wall of sound is like standing by Niagara falls and the sound surrounds you one of the best examples is Tina Turner's River Deep Mountain High. The strings and everything engulf you with sound
To be fair, it wasn't that bands like The Beach Boys couldn't play what Brian Wilson had in his head. They could, but it would take them longer to learn the parts that it did for the studio musicians of the Wrecking Crew. The Crew were not only fast learners, they were highly creative, often masters of several different styles of music and able to play on anything a producer gave them, from Rock to Pop to Jazz to Frank Sinatra crooning and everything in between. Carol Kaye, for example, created that wonderfully memorable walking bass line on Sonny and Cher's The Beat Goes On. Prior to that, the song was a strict 4/4 tempo. Add all of these factors together and expensive studio time was drastically shortened, saving money and making the records more profitable for the labels and the bands.
The guys in the studio made their money by playing with multiple bands. The concert sound systems were not that good back in the day. So the band could do it and be cool. The voices were The Beach Boys.
Ike and Tina toured the UK with the Stones and played on TV. Tina and Mick did the dirty under a stage one night, and never copped to it for decades. Ike was real nasty.
Brian Wilson's compositions got more complex as he went along, using strings and horns. The Beach Boys weren't touring with all that at the time. So, it's not as if the BB weren't talented and couldn't keep up. They just weren't on the road with such a massive band.
Phil Spector's Wall of Sound became overproduced once it went from a bunch of musicians in a room and turned into sixteen tracks overstuffed with overdubs. Sometimes too much is simply too much.
I hope this gets to you guys the group is blood sweat and tears and the song is you make me so very happy a lot of hits start with that one I think you liked it
I never really cared much for spector's wall of sound and of him. I call it the wall of noise. I preferred the British version of it, which was much cleaner, higher quality sounding...imo.
I respect Brian Wilson and Pet Sounds. But Sgt. Pepper as an album blew Pets sounds away. the Wrecking Crew were used by Brian Wilson because they could be taught something really fast. and when you are paying for studio time you just want the best musicians that can get the stuff on tape. and it was a different time before rock bands wrote and played all of the there own songs. and the wrecking Crew went from one artist to another. they were constantly working. they were not caring about how much The Beach Boys were making playing live. the Wrecking Crew musicians probably played on hundreds of albums for many artists.
You need to watch " 20 Feet From Stardom ".....will mess you up.....all about the original singers that actually made the records in studio and then the bands had to learn them and try and sound like the originators.....particularly the girl groups of the time .....
As far as lady’s on the bass in my very humble opinion Carol Kaye is the best , then ya gotta say Tal Wickfield , Rhonda Smith , Angeline Saris , Tina Weymouth , Nick West ect ect
That's Frankie Avalon you're seeing (in: Beach Blanket Bingo, with: Annette Funicello). Absolutely NOT the same guy from The Four Seasons/Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons (who were based in and around New Jersey -and, actually, were a '60s throwback to the Doo-Wop era of the '50s!) whom you are confusing him with, here. So: NOT "that guy from Grease," at all (in those images). Nope. Frankie Valli had a slight "comeback: with that song (after The Four Seasons had ended). I would call Frankie Avalon "a movie star." He could sing (like most performers could, to some degree, in throe days), but: I don't know of him as a musical artist and would never think of him that way! But, in those "Frankie & Annette," goofy, beach movies, obviously, "young sounding" music 🙄🙄was used and they ...I don't even know whether they sang it🤷🤷 (but they probably could have!). Frankie Valli from N.J. was an actual musician. "Grease" was his comeback hit, in the '70s (because the musical was, also, a "throwback" (I guess is the current saying) to: those '50s, early rock 'n' roll days, in high school. ...which is, also, what The Four Seasons really were, effectively (more of '"a throwback sound" in the, later (post-"British Invasion"), '60s and a scant, few years at the start of the 1970s, as well!).).
It's a no-brainer if you're young and talented would you rather be in a place where it's cold old and shity in the winter time or being a place where it's warm with beautiful people all the time and I'm a next New Yorker😊
