imo, story of the Wrecking Crew is one of the most fascinating in music history. Always happy to read about it.
One thing -- "They were aptly named the, Wrecking Crew, as older musicians thought they would wreck the music industry and it was unprofessional to use session musicians"
If I remember correctly -- and I may not be, but I think I am -- it wasn't that the older musicians didn't approve of session players -- session players had been around well before and the older generation themselves *were* session players -- but rather that the attitude of the Wrecking Crew and their willingness to play rock and roll, which the older musicians either refused to play or didn't understand well enough to play. And since rock and roll was taking over the music business, the Wrecking Crew took over along with them and those older musicians were left high and dry.
And then of course the same thing happened to the Wrecking Crew, rendered obsolete largely because of The Beatles and the resulting expectation that bands would play their own instruments on the record.
You are probably right with your explanation. I always thought they were viewed as unprofessional for one reason or another.
But yes, the Wrecking Crew, I could write an entire month of blog posts about them. Just insanely talented musicians given a chance because some took a chance on them and on themselves.
You're right that they were viewed as unprofessional -- they wore jeans in the studio and played rock and roll, and both were definitely considered unprofessional by the prior generation of session players.
imo, story of the Wrecking Crew is one of the most fascinating in music history. Always happy to read about it.
One thing -- "They were aptly named the, Wrecking Crew, as older musicians thought they would wreck the music industry and it was unprofessional to use session musicians"
If I remember correctly -- and I may not be, but I think I am -- it wasn't that the older musicians didn't approve of session players -- session players had been around well before and the older generation themselves *were* session players -- but rather that the attitude of the Wrecking Crew and their willingness to play rock and roll, which the older musicians either refused to play or didn't understand well enough to play. And since rock and roll was taking over the music business, the Wrecking Crew took over along with them and those older musicians were left high and dry.
And then of course the same thing happened to the Wrecking Crew, rendered obsolete largely because of The Beatles and the resulting expectation that bands would play their own instruments on the record.
You are probably right with your explanation. I always thought they were viewed as unprofessional for one reason or another.
But yes, the Wrecking Crew, I could write an entire month of blog posts about them. Just insanely talented musicians given a chance because some took a chance on them and on themselves.
You're right that they were viewed as unprofessional -- they wore jeans in the studio and played rock and roll, and both were definitely considered unprofessional by the prior generation of session players.
At least the Wreckers were real live human musicians- it would be the automation of the decades after them that truly ruined the business.
I couldn't agree more. Automation is very bad for the industry. So is using AI to create filler such as the remaining Beatles did recently.