The Wrecking Crew! (2008)
Rated PG
Starring Tommy Tedesco, Brian Wilson, Glen Campbell, Carol Kaye, Dick Clark, Herb Alpert, Hal Blaine
Directed by Denny Tedesco
The Story:
In the late 50s, Rock and Roll music was born. While we are familiar with the names of the singers and bands that gave us this amazing music from that moment all the way through the 60s, many of them had a deep, dark secret: They all employed The Wrecking Crew as their session musicians to make their music sound so good. You know the songs by heart, and now it's time to learn the story of those musicians who put their soul into the recordings with rarely any credit given to them outside of the industry.
Until now.
Denny Tedesco started a documentary about his dad, guitar master Tommy Tedesco.
Yet the more he filmed, the bigger the story got.
So he expanded it, and archive footage and interviews with industry legends and members of the Wrecking Crew are spliced together in near chronological order to give not only a behind the scenes peek at the recording industry, but a history of rock from its birth to the end of the 60s and beginnings of the 70s.
Basically, if you think The Monkees were the only band to not really play their instruments on records, you're about to have a wake up call as to who was really responsible for the music.
In some cases, the Wrecking Crew even played the music better than the artists themselves.
It's informative.
It's eye-opening.
It's worth your time.
The movie is currently streaming on Netflix as of this writing.
Final Grade: A
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