Denny Tedesco

Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

Alison Rosen

Funny, Comic, Interviews, Women, Celebrity, Grief, Psychology, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.6 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2015

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Denny Tedesco (The Wrecking Crew) stops by Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to talk about his 19 year labor of love, the documentary The Wrecking Crew and what it was like growing up the son of famed musician Tommy Tedesco. We also talked about his experience interviewing luminaries like Cher, Dick Clark, Nancy Sinatra, Brian Wilson and more plus crowdfunding, losing his father to cancer, "no smoking, no Tedesco," controversy with Carol Kaye, conflict between Carol Kaye and Hal Blaine, growing up in the valley and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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0:00.0	I was in, rose in, I was in, rose in, as you knew that's friend.
0:06.1	I was in, I was in, with a good time's never end.
0:11.6	I was in, rose in, we meet again, I was in, rose in, I was in, as you knew that's friend.
0:22.3	Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me, Allison Rosen.
0:26.0	Welcome to another episode of Allison Rosen, as your new best friend.
0:29.1	I am sitting here with Denny Tedesco, producer and more of the film The Rekking Crew.
0:36.1	So we will get into all of that and we'll talk about other stuff as well.
0:40.2	But first Denny, how are you feeling?
0:41.4	I know it was a rush for you to get over here.
0:42.8	It was a rush, it was a rush, I got across town very quickly as fast as I could go.
0:48.9	Good, all right.
0:50.4	So The Rekking Crew is a documentary about the session players, The Rekking Crew and your
0:55.8	dad, Tommy Tedesco, is world famous guitar player and as it pointed out in the film, if
1:01.3	people don't know him by name, they've certainly heard something he's played.
1:05.8	Exactly.
1:06.8	Dad was a session player, came from Niagara Falls, New York in the early 50s, moved to LA
1:12.1	and broke into the studio scene.
1:14.0	And yeah, you could hear him on those themes like Batman and Bonanza, Green Acres, but he
1:20.9	also did a lot of rock and roll.
1:22.8	What was that like growing up with him as your dad?
1:26.0	Well, he was just dad.
1:28.0	I mean, it's funny, someone asked me that earlier, it's like, it must have been really cool
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