"The Wrecking Crew" was a nickname coined by drummer Hal Blaine for a collective of studio and session musicians that played anonymously on many records in Los Angeles, California during the 1960s. The crew backed dozens of popular singers, and were one of the most successful groups of studio musicians in music history"
Carol Kaye was very unhappy with the finished film and regrets participating.
Really. She comes across as The Star in my book. She deserves her own Doc. Watching her play the Mission Impossible bassline how she played it back in the day was slightly mindblowing.
I watched it knowing the problems Kaye had with it, but she's long been kind of a curmudgeon and it's hard to see what was so objectionable (aside from the fact that The Wrecking Crew wasn't what they were called back then).
Really. She comes across as The Star in my book. She deserves her own Doc. Watching her play the Mission Impossible bassline how she played it back in the day was slightly mindblowing.
Agree 100% and an excellent documentary overall;long overdue appreciation.
Carol Kaye was very unhappy with the finished film and regrets participating.
Really. She comes across as The Star in my book. She deserves her own Doc. Watching her play the Mission Impossible bassline how she played it back in the day was slightly mindblowing.
Yep. She was not happy with the documentary and has expressed that publicly. She's also on Facebook.
That's too bad. It's really a Love Letter to the director's dad, Tommy Todesco. It's still worth watching. And settles once and for all the silliness of any Monkees controversy.
It DOES have a film music link, however; guitarist Tommy Tedesco is the son of Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco, who probably taught more film composers than any other in history.
I enjoyed this documentary when it first emerged on the "doc scene" several years ago, and now (rights issues secured for wider distribution - plus there are a few minutes of extra added footage plus ample bonus content) it's been nice to rediscover it.
I hadn't known Carol Kaye was dissatisfied with it (and her participation) until reading the remarks here. Here is her Facebook entry from 2012 where she addresses it:
It will be great to see this. In the pantheon of pop music culture, TWC surely ranks up there as one of the best studio session bands ever. Having recorded many songs for artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, the Mamas and the Papas in the 1960sas well as Sonny and Cher and David Cassidy and the Partridge Family in the 1970s. The songs are really the soundtrack to our lives growing up. How fortunate we all were to have some of the top session musicians of the day participate in music that is just as revered now as it was then. They have all left behind something tangible for generations to come.
Of course any true assessment of the quality of music is subjective only - everyone is allowed their own opinion where in the realm of commercial music, only sales, popularity and the almighty dollar are all that really matter.
