Summer Special - The Wrecking Crew

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian continue having fun on their summer vacation, but in the meantime, we won't leave you without an episode. So we hung out and spent some time chatting about the legendary musicians that ruled the rock and roll studios in the 60s, the Wrecking Crew. We talk about the film based on this loose collection of musicians, Tommy Tedesco on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, Hal Blaine on drums, a host of other musicians, some of the songs they contributed to, the producers they collaborated with like Phil Spector and Brian Wilson, and even a little bit about the Monkees as we talk about about what made these people great!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:04.0	I'm Bill.
0:04.6	And I'm Brian.
0:05.3	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:07.2	Doing something a little bit different today, Bill.
0:09.6	We're talking about the wrecking crew.
0:15.8	Hey, Mr. Tamary Man, play a song for me.
0:27.4	I'm not sleepy then.
0:30.2	There ain't no place I'm going to.
0:36.0	What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:42.0	But we're in the middle of our summer break, so we're going to hit you with some summer specials.
0:47.3	Instead of doing the deep dive into a single album, Brian and I are trying to just kind of have a fun conversation about a topic that we may
0:55.1	not be able to get into when doing album track by track reviews. And I feel like this kind of
1:03.5	early rock stuff, we don't necessarily get a chance to dive into it too much. Yeah. And I mean,
1:09.6	it's it's not because we don't want to.
1:13.4	It's just because sometimes some of these acts that we're going to talk about today
1:18.0	are just kind of lacking like a specific definitive record.
1:22.9	Not everybody, but it's just sometimes some of these early 60s records are tough to, you know,
1:30.0	are tough to really parse out in a two-hour discussion.
1:33.1	And the musicians that we're specifically going to be focusing on, because we're going to be
1:36.9	focusing on some songs today, but we're also going to be focusing on a specific group of
1:42.5	musicians known as the wrecking crew,
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