One of the early members of “The Wrecking Crew” - a group of super talented studio musicians led by the great Hal Blaine on drums.
“The Wrecking Crew” played on all the hits recorded in LA back in the 60’s and early 70’s. including all of the Beach Boys, Mamas/Papas, Jan&Dean, etc...
btw, Glen borrowed & played Wrecking Crew’s Carol Kaye’s 6-string bass on his “Witchita Lineman” solo.
btw, Glen borrowed & played Wrecking Crew’s Carol Kaye’s 6-string bass on his “Witchita Lineman” solo.
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The story is Campbell called Jimmy Webb to do a song, but he didn’t have enough time to finish it, so he sent it to the studio as is, still needing a verse. Webb didn’t hear anything for a while, but the next time he saw Campbell he said I guess you didn’t record the song. Campbell said, oh no, we recorded it. We just put a bass solo where the missing verse was supposed to be.
Wrecking Crew. I couldn’t remember the name, I was typing and searching for a couple of videos I wanted when you posted. They were the premier studio crew of that time, along with the group at the studio in Macon Georgia, who did the music for everybody you can think of. Their was a documentary about that a while back, the Macon bunch ended up with Duanne Allman joining them, and did backing tracks for Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge and basically everybody else you can think of. Bob Seger recorded there, the Eagles, even groups from England wanted that studio. There was a long list pf artists who all recorded albums in that studio, it had some sort of “mojo” everybody loved, plus the greatest rhythm section outside the Wrecking Crew.
For those who like both, how about Glenn Campbell and Roy Clark both playing the same guitar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkOZ1nxENNk