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The Wrecking Crew

garypf

garypf

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Just watched this documentary on Netflix. It gave me an insight to who was playing on all those records in the 1960s. They never received official credit on the records by The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Herb Alpert, the Monkees. They could play any type of music. You probably have a record in your collection that this talented group of session musicians played on. Well worth the effort and time to watch. You also get to hear a lot of great music from that period. An era of the music industry that we won't see again.
 
In order to keep recording cost down (studo time) many albums recorded did not feature instruments played by band members. Instead they would hire "sit-in" or studio musicians i.e. one take artists to decrease time spent in studio recording thereby reducing cost.

Rope
 
I made a living as a NDA session player from 1983 until 1996.

It could cost up to $5,000 an hour to use a top notch studio with the best staff around, and if the musicians in the band would require 100s of takes to get it right (prior to digital editing), then bringing in session musicians to get it right the firs to third take was worth the cost and effort. I was one of those guys who came in to get the work done quickly, and often much better than the band member could pull off.
 
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