Glen Campbell: self-taught musical prodigy. Grew up a poor farm boy in the south. His uncle bought him a $5 guitar from Sears, and he learned guitar on his own, listening to Django Reinhardt records and playing with his family. One of the most overlooked and underrated guitarists of all-time. When Glen passed, there’s a news interview with his sober Christian golf buddy from Arizona, Alice Cooper. Alice recalls a story of when he was hanging with Van Halen, and Eddie Van Halen asks Alice to introduce him to Glen because he wants to learn some guitar licks from him. Wow.
Back in Sept. 1967, Glen did a short tour with Lynn Anderson and Red Foley was the headliner. Glen was just catching fire and on his way to stardom. After the show, Glen, his band and I headed for a local night club where Glen jumped up on the stage and asked the house band if he could sit in. After that, we spent the whole night til 5:30 AM at the coffee shop in the local Rodeway Inn. It was a night of jokes and stories and a night I'll remember forever. Glen was a great guy to hang out with. Thanks Glen, R.I.P.
What a great clip. So sad that so many are gone now. Glen Campbell, Larry Knechtel and just recently Joe Osborn. I remember going to a concert of Glen Campbell and his opening act was Jerry Reed. When the two of them played together, just pure magic. RIP to all those great artists.
What can you say here? Phenomenal! If you are between 50 and 75, these guys were behind a lot of the sound tracks of our lives! And sadly they are slowly leaving us. 😔
I could sit and listen to the stories of these incredible musicians for a week and not get tired of hearing what they had to say! What an experience for them to be a part of........The studio session men and women ROCKED!
Just love this! Screw the people who either don't like it or don't give it a "like"....these are the guys that did it all....it says something about yourself if you know who these guys and gal (Carol Kaye!) are. Simply the best musicians in the world....
The Beatles hit the USA big-time right when I turned 10 years old, and since they were noted for playing their own instruments, after that I just assumed most other groups did too. After all, we saw them on TV doing that. What a surprise to discover years later that professionals like these guys were the ones actually creating a lot of those sounds, which of course I knew nothing about, at the time.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE TIME THESE MUSICIANS HAD BACK THEN CREATING ALL THAT BEAUTIFUL MUSIC HISTORY, AND THE HEAVIES THEY SHARED IT WITH. FOR ME IT,S BEYOND AND OUT OF THIS WORLD , MAN!
Anyone who loves playing ANY instrument has to enjoy these behind the scenes clips. I've been playing over 40 yrs. and still looking to pick up some tips. Lets all keep Glen in our prayers.
I had a Glenn album that had a brown cover, can't remember the name. Anyway back in the 70's, I made bets with people that they could not name the guitar player on the album was going to drop. Glenn ripped it like no one knew he could. People guessed all the great rockers of the day but no one guessed Glenn. Too bad the magnitude of his genius was not known outside of the music circle
"That floored me how you could get so good at reading music. I had a hard enough time reading comic books," says Glen Campbell. Not only one of the most talented musicians ever, but humble as the day is long. Miss him more and more every day. Wish I had discovered his talent earlier. Being forced to listen to "Wichita Lineman" over and over made me dislike him for years. (Good job, Ma.)
Earl Palmer's countless drum sessions stretches way beyond hit records, tv themes and movie scores. These were some of the best unknown musicians on our favorite soundtracks.
All of these cats were brilliant. No click track, no copy and paste, no pencil tool and NO auto tuning. Just ridiculous amounts of talent and you press record.
Yup, they could make These Boots Were Made For Walking' into a hit with swagger and cool. Not the easiest thing. Then moved on and left Nancy looking clever.
I’m 41 years old, so this is not a judgement on today’s music because my favorite songs are from the 90’s. My favorite genre will always be “ garage” rock from the 90’s like Pavement, Afghan Whigs, Hefner, Modest Mouse, etc., but I’ve never heard anything as aesthetically appealing as Be My Little Baby or Will You Love Me Tomorrow.
This is excellent!!....i love all these musicians...Hal Blaine, Jim Keltner, Lee Sklar, Glen Cambell,etc....and it is fascinating to hear their stories, jokes, and insight behind some of the biggest hits in music...Can't wait to see more ~ Cheers!!
My dad was a session player around this time in Los Angeles, so I grew up in this world. Most people don't know that all or most of the musicians behind the big commercial "hits" were highly trained and educated professionals who could read and play any kind of music at the drop of a hat (or the whim of a producer...)
Glen Campbell: self-taught musical prodigy. Grew up a poor farm boy in the south. His uncle bought him a $5 guitar from Sears, and he learned guitar on his own, listening to Django Reinhardt records and playing with his family. One of the most overlooked and underrated guitarists of all-time. When Glen passed, there’s a news interview with his sober Christian golf buddy from Arizona, Alice Cooper. Alice recalls a story of when he was hanging with Van Halen, and Eddie Van Halen asks Alice to introduce him to Glen because he wants to learn some guitar licks from him. Wow.
Amazing talents.....all of them.....I really enjoy this type of stuff....to learn how things were created.....to hear these guys say....mistake or by accident....just makes me smile because every single one of them is a musical genius
Phil's "wall of sound" ... Don't see how he had room for all of it, sonically. Looks like an AKG 412 on Hal's kit. I think I remember Tedesco saying if you got only get one note out of four or so, when reading charts, you were doing pretty good. "Stranglers In The Night." These guys sure powered the music and memories of THIS old man's life, I guarantee it. Song, after song, after great ear-catching, memory-making hit.
This is just incredible. I'm glad that you included the other city sites of music like the musicians from Memphis, New York City, and Nashville, where a lot of great music came from. Nice liner notes.
Glen had an "off stage" personality that was just incredible. I remember him meeting the very young sister of two of our band members and they struck up a nice relationship. Then every year from the time she was 9 until whenever, he called her on her birthday to wish her a happy birthday. Name one other famous musician that would do that. Back in the 60's I had the opportunity to play with jazz guitar great Larry Carlton for about 5 years. He was also a member of the Wrecking Crew. I doubt you could count the number of hits the Wrecking Crew were the background band. Jerry LaFavor, drummer
That's a nice story. But the fact that you don't know another one about another "famous" musician who would do such a thing doesn't mean that there are no other stories. There are good, caring people all over the world, whether they are famous or not.
OMG! That was so cool! Watching and listening to those session players talk about their experiences. Mind blowing! Thank you so much for posting this. This, along with the doc on Netflix, is absolutely breathtaking! Thank you again!
Thanks for posting this. I am thankful for all the hard work these session players put in. You can teach anyone to play an instrument, but you cannot teach the feel and creativity of music.
+The Production Company USA : Thank you. Sometimes you just do it, hard to explain but fun. Did local session work in the late 70's in south Louisiana, now in sunny west coast of Florida. Seeing something done is more powerful than just words. I really enjoy the videos you posted and will be watching often. Blessings to you!
Larry Knechtel formerly of Bread, played the slide guitar part on the "Guitar Man" and played piano on "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel...
It's all great now but most old people are too hung up on the sixties to enjoy it. Adele, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Joe Satriani and many more great artists if you just open your ears.
I played trumpet from 5th grade to my senior year in high school,i could read scales and notes but never bothered to learn more,i was more interested in girls,anyway all throughout those years another trumpet player sat next to me who could read music very well but did not have the tone i had so i would just listen to his playing and play it better all by ear,lol, he and i would battle for 1st chair through out all those years! Music is so much fun,even if ya cant read it,lol!!!
Thank you for sharing these wonderful memories and your generous work, here! My Mother and my husband, both, are also interested in these glorious videos as well. My husband used to be another great studio musician in the late '60's + '70's. He really appreciates these inspirational memories. 😀💗
Loved seeing Glen & lee talk about Tommy Tedesco. When I started investigating session musicians (the albums never credited them when I was a kid) Tommy was the one cat I really dug. Glen, bless his heart, was humble with a heart as big as a whale had public exposure on TV & single artist stardom. But Tommy was a studio cat secret armed with talent, chops, chart-reading finesse and a very wry, dry sense of humour...not to say a real sweet guy.
My family designed the interiors of both Hal Blaine and Glen Campbell back in the early 1970's. I was a truck driver and got to deliver their framed gold records to their homes. They already had a shit load.
@tracy 511 ..yes! when someone like clarkewi shares a story like that in a video like this one, it’s like an extra dessert or finding cash in an old coat pocket. This is an example of the sort of “community” there needs to be more of on the youtubes. Too many divisive and downright mean comments in so many comment sections. I’d much rather be enlightened than fighting.
I sang most of my life... from school chorus, to Church music and beyond... and never learned how to read music! LOL! But I learned to 'recognize' the positions of the notes and what each one should sound like ... but I couldn't tell you if it was a C-sharp or an F-flat... And I learned to 'hear' the chord progressions so I could hit a note that 'harmonized' even if it wasn't the note I was seeing on the page... or if I was just 'singing with the radio' on a song I had never heard before...
...succeeded by Bruce Johnston, an overlooked Beach Boy. The best era of their work was when Bruce was with them. Pet Sounds, Wild Honey, 20/20, Sunflower, Surf’s Up
After Brian had his first nervous breakdown and stopped touring, Glen came aboard to tour, playing the bass and singing the falsetto part. If I could post pictures here of them together, I would.
Thank you for "Session Men"! I have read some books and many articles about these great studio musicians. This video best captures the essence of their energy, creativity, and history. Remarkable performers. Remarkable session stories. Remarkable film making.
Music IS indeed, art. However the output of these musicians was to a business arrangement. The recording industry is, without a doubt... a COMPETITIVE business. Sad that art is "marketed"....but it is. And not solely a capitalistic endeavor....at the time a great deal of it had to do with distribution. For the artist (Monkees, Sinatra, Aretha, Elvis...whoever) the only way to get your music in front of people (pre-internet) was to have tasty arrangements, flawless instrumentation, good production and a management team and a label behind them. There was no music downloads, live streams or TH-cam in those days, and touring just wouldn't get the job done. Between the pop music of our past and even the commercials where people like Tommy Tedesco, Dennis Budimir....even Larry Carlton contributed a "sound" ; our sensibilities and our musical consciousness were shaped to feel and look for certain kinds of melodic structure and cued to even anticipate the hooks and licks of these people. The biggest shame is that these artists were expected to take such a workman-like approach to music....when it is easy to see that every one of them had the chops and passion to make masterpieces...instead of backdrops or airline commercials.....
This is awesome! I'm frustrated for you too about the "likes".. i think that when folks see the old footage, they assume that the documentary is as old as the music.. perhaps adding something new to it.. not sure what.. would make it look more contemporary..but then again.. it's musicians that have been there and done that, the truly appreciate all the hard work you've done with this piece and part 1 as well. I'm honored to be a part of this in "Session Men Memphis" - Part One. This is truly such a great memory for me. You should do a film on background singers too.. who sing demo's for songwriters, and then the BIG artist records and steals that singers licks and runs as if she came up with it.. it happens all the way around.. I sang the demo to Celine Dion's first U.S. hit, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" and the songwriters told me she was learning to speak english when she recorded the song. And the first time I heard the song on the radio, I had to pull my car over, cause I couldn't believe that she truly had copied every ad lib and everything that I had done.. Weird feeling.. but very proud to have sung on it.
Duane Eddy utilized the enormous talents of Jim Horn and Larry Knechtel in his band before they became studio musicians. He had a knack for surrounding himself with great musicians. There are just a few videos of Duane, Jim and Larry in the early days appearing on the Dick Clark show. Wish there were tons more.
After watching some videos of Glen from the time of this one, you can hear Glen starting to have speech issues...some slurring. He was probably starting to experience the onset of his disease.
Glen Campbell: self-taught musical prodigy. Grew up a poor farm boy in the south. His uncle bought him a $5 guitar from Sears, and he learned guitar on his own, listening to Django Reinhardt records and playing with his family. One of the most overlooked and underrated guitarists of all-time. When Glen passed, there’s a news interview with his sober Christian golf buddy from Arizona, Alice Cooper. Alice recalls a story of when he was hanging with Van Halen, and Eddie Van Halen asks Alice to introduce him to Glen because he wants to learn some guitar licks from him. Wow.
Musicians like this just don't exist, or are very few and far between. They made the producers sound great. A lot of the production was the brilliant musicians working along with the producers to get the best performances. Those artists would have never made those great records without them. I would rate Glen Campbell right along with Chet Atkins, he was brilliant.
To hear connections of these masters path which are independently connected are still a learning amazement after 40 + years of hearing this evolution of wonders.
What a huge amount of talent there. Glen is playing the electric guitar sans amp during this whole thing. FWIW, Willie Nelson was a session guitarist for Frank Sinatra.
Glen Campbell: self-taught musical prodigy. Grew up a poor farm boy in the south. His uncle bought him a $5 guitar from Sears, and he learned guitar on his own, listening to Django Reinhardt records and playing with his family. One of the most overlooked and underrated guitarists of all-time. When Glen passed, there’s a news interview with his sober Christian golf buddy from Arizona, Alice Cooper. Alice recalls a story of when he was hanging with Van Halen, and Eddie Van Halen asks Alice to introduce him to Glen because he wants to learn some guitar licks from him. Wow.
Glen Campbell was a dam genius
Back in Sept. 1967, Glen did a short tour with Lynn Anderson and Red Foley was the headliner. Glen was just catching fire and on his way to stardom. After the show, Glen, his band and I headed for a local night club where Glen jumped up on the stage and asked the house band if he could sit in. After that, we spent the whole night til 5:30 AM at the coffee shop in the local Rodeway Inn. It was a night of jokes and stories and a night I'll remember forever. Glen was a great guy to hang out with. Thanks Glen, R.I.P.
What a great clip. So sad that so many are gone now. Glen Campbell, Larry Knechtel and just recently Joe Osborn. I remember going to a concert of Glen Campbell and his opening act was Jerry Reed. When the two of them played together, just pure magic. RIP to all those great artists.
What can you say here? Phenomenal! If you are between 50 and 75, these guys were behind a lot of the sound tracks of our lives! And sadly they are slowly leaving us. 😔
The legendary crew of musicians that gave us so many iconic songs that shaped popular music and our times ... God bless them all.
I could sit and listen to the stories of these incredible musicians for a week and not get tired of hearing what they had to say!
What an experience for them to be a part of........The studio session men and women ROCKED!
Just love this! Screw the people who either don't like it or don't give it a "like"....these are the guys that did it all....it says something about yourself if you know who these guys and gal (Carol Kaye!) are. Simply the best musicians in the world....
The best is right!
MUSIC LOVERS COULD WATCH THESE VIDEOS FOREVER WISH THERE WERE MORE, LOVE THE DIALOG
There's just not enough of this stuff to watch. I could sit here for days watching this.
I should be working...but NO! I got hooked on this too! Love to see this stuff.
The wrecking crew documentary on Netflix is around 2 hours.
The Beatles hit the USA big-time right when I turned 10 years old, and since they were noted for playing their own instruments, after that I just assumed most other groups did too. After all, we saw them on TV doing that. What a surprise to discover years later that professionals like these guys were the ones actually creating a lot of those sounds, which of course I knew nothing about, at the time.
What fantastic human being Glen was... I wish I'd known then what I know now....
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE TIME THESE MUSICIANS HAD BACK THEN CREATING ALL THAT BEAUTIFUL MUSIC HISTORY, AND THE HEAVIES THEY SHARED IT WITH. FOR ME IT,S BEYOND AND OUT OF THIS WORLD , MAN!
Anyone who loves playing ANY instrument has to enjoy these behind the scenes clips. I've been playing over 40 yrs. and still looking to pick up some tips.
Lets all keep Glen in our prayers.
I had a Glenn album that had a brown cover, can't remember the name. Anyway back in the 70's, I made bets with people that they could not name the guitar player on the album was going to drop. Glenn ripped it like no one knew he could. People guessed all the great rockers of the day but no one guessed Glenn. Too bad the magnitude of his genius was not known outside of the music circle
"That floored me how you could get so good at reading music. I had a hard enough time reading comic books," says Glen Campbell.
Not only one of the most talented musicians ever, but humble as the day is long. Miss him more and more every day.
Wish I had discovered his talent earlier. Being forced to listen to "Wichita Lineman" over and over made me dislike him for years. (Good job, Ma.)
I can listen to this stuff all day long.
Earl Palmer's countless drum sessions stretches way beyond hit records, tv themes and movie scores. These were some of the best unknown musicians on our favorite soundtracks.
Glenn Campbell's talent was beyond amazing.
Carol Kaye....Played bass on 'Light My Fire'. Mind blown.
No that was Larry Knechtel and he was uncredited. Carol King in her last years has claimed to play bass on a lot of stuff that she didn't.
Glen Campbell is a legend in the music world! Sick sick guitarist.......
Hal Blaine. Legendary drummer. Wonderful raconteur. Friend.
Thank you for your kind condolences, The Production Company USA. Long live HAL. And the beat goes on. . . and on.
Never knew he played Mapex.
Proof they made quality gear.
So true, Glen Campbell was a musical genius. Hate the disease that robbed him of so much.
The way these guys talk about the famous musicians floor me. They don't know that THEY are the amazing musicians.
All of these cats were brilliant. No click track, no copy and paste, no pencil tool and NO auto tuning. Just ridiculous amounts of talent and you press record.
Yup, they could make These Boots Were Made For Walking' into a hit with swagger and cool. Not the easiest thing. Then moved on and left Nancy looking clever.
That last closing song.. the acoustic trio jam.. was the bomb for me..
My favorite quote about Glen; "He couldn't read or write music, but he had ears like an Elephant!"
perfect storm of genius simply amazing! Dont you think it would have been a blast to hang with these guys!
They were the soundtrack of our youth. Thank you, thank you. Ron From Annapolis MD
What a Brilliant enlightening Clip ! These are the guys who MADE the tunes, what they became. Pure GOLD !
Really miss Campbell...what a loss
I think it’s weird that I find these recordings more pleasing than most crystal clear, digital recordings of today.
I’m 41 years old, so this is not a judgement on today’s music because my favorite songs are from the 90’s.
My favorite genre will always be “ garage” rock from the 90’s like Pavement, Afghan Whigs, Hefner, Modest Mouse, etc., but I’ve never heard anything as aesthetically appealing as Be My Little Baby or Will You Love Me Tomorrow.
RIP Glen Campbell. How amazing, how humbling.
This is excellent!!....i love all these musicians...Hal Blaine, Jim Keltner, Lee Sklar, Glen Cambell,etc....and it is fascinating to hear their stories, jokes, and insight behind some of the biggest hits in music...Can't wait to see more ~ Cheers!!
Glad you enjoyed this off line preview clip, Pete.
The Production Company NYC ..Thanks!!!...About to watch the Memphis Cats!!..Take care and I cannot wait to tell my friends about this...
My dad was a session player around this time in Los Angeles, so I grew up in this world. Most people don't know that all or most of the musicians behind the big commercial "hits" were highly trained and educated professionals who could read and play any kind of music at the drop of a hat (or the whim of a producer...)
So great to hear these superb musicians express such tremendous respect for each other.
Glen Campbell...one of best ever.
Glen Campbell: self-taught musical prodigy. Grew up a poor farm boy in the south. His uncle bought him a $5 guitar from Sears, and he learned guitar on his own, listening to Django Reinhardt records and playing with his family. One of the most overlooked and underrated guitarists of all-time. When Glen passed, there’s a news interview with his sober Christian golf buddy from Arizona, Alice Cooper. Alice recalls a story of when he was hanging with Van Halen, and Eddie Van Halen asks Alice to introduce him to Glen because he wants to learn some guitar licks from him. Wow.
Great stuff. Thank you for letting us in.
Amazing talents.....all of them.....I really enjoy this type of stuff....to learn how things were created.....to hear these guys say....mistake or by accident....just makes me smile because every single one of them is a musical genius
Thanks for posting this. What huge talent in this short clip.
We worry about global warming..... losing this musical talent is even more sad and serious!! Absolute bunch of genius talent.
Amazing....what has happened to this world...if we could only go back
Can you imagine what sort of EAR Glenn must have had, to be able to play with those guys on that level and yet be unable to read music?
Phil's "wall of sound" ... Don't see how he had room for all of it, sonically. Looks like an AKG 412 on Hal's kit. I think I remember Tedesco saying if you got only get one note out of four or so, when reading charts, you were doing pretty good. "Stranglers In The Night." These guys sure powered the music and memories of THIS old man's life, I guarantee it. Song, after song, after great ear-catching, memory-making hit.
amazing Glen Campbell and Hal Blane remember their parts from 40 to 50 years ago
This is just incredible. I'm glad that you included the other city sites of music like the musicians from Memphis, New York City, and Nashville, where a lot of great music came from. Nice liner notes.
+Charlie Kucharski Thanks, Charlie.
Glen had an "off stage" personality that was just incredible. I remember him meeting the very young sister of two of our band members and they struck up a nice relationship. Then every year from the time she was 9 until whenever, he called her on her birthday to wish her a happy birthday. Name one other famous musician that would do that. Back in the 60's I had the opportunity to play with jazz guitar great Larry Carlton for about 5 years. He was also a member of the Wrecking Crew. I doubt you could count the number of hits the Wrecking Crew were the background band. Jerry LaFavor, drummer
That's a nice story. But the fact that you don't know another one about another "famous" musician who would do such a thing doesn't mean that there are no other stories. There are good, caring people all over the world, whether they are famous or not.
Thanks for sharing Jerry.....this made me tear up a bit 💋💞
OMG! That was so cool! Watching and listening to those session players talk about their experiences. Mind blowing! Thank you so much for posting this. This, along with the doc on Netflix, is absolutely breathtaking! Thank you again!
You guys were my heroes before I started playing music and still are.
Folks...this is the GREATNESS of GLEN
Great video everyone!!! Wonderful stories had me LOLing big time!!! THANK YOU!!!
Thanks for posting this. I am thankful for all the hard work these session players put in. You can teach anyone to play an instrument, but you cannot teach the feel and creativity of music.
+390comet Thanks, Ben. Enjoyed seeing your visual drum cover tutorials!
+The Production Company USA : Thank you. Sometimes you just do it, hard to explain but fun. Did local session work in the late 70's in south Louisiana, now in sunny west coast of Florida. Seeing something done is more powerful than just words. I really enjoy the videos you posted and will be watching often. Blessings to you!
Hal Blaine's success will never be equaled.
Extraordinary - great to see the players behind the music being named and acknowledged for their work.
Long live HAL. He worked with so many famous artists that got the royalties for. They gave him utter respect for his beat.
Great video. Thanks for posting this.
One of my greatest musical mistakes was not recognising Glenn as a great guitarist
RIP, Leon Russell, one of the most famous of the Wrecking Crew, along with Glen.
sadly mot people don't know about Larry K who was a great piano player
Larry Knechtel formerly of Bread, played the slide guitar part on the "Guitar Man" and played piano on "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel...
also played Johnny Rivers Rocking Pneumonia as well
And now Glen, RIP.
never knew that
Now we know why all the music was so great back than!
It's all great now but most old people are too hung up on the sixties to enjoy it. Adele, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Joe Satriani and many more great artists if you just open your ears.
+Tom Seiler no way. Ty Segall, white fence, castleface records is the new gen stuff, not overproduced stuff
These guys are the legends behind the legends!
If it weren't for these legends, the other legends wouldn't exist.
I played trumpet from 5th grade to my senior year in high school,i could read scales and notes but never bothered to learn more,i was more interested in girls,anyway all throughout those years another trumpet player sat next to me who could read music very well but did not have the tone i had so i would just listen to his playing and play it better all by ear,lol, he and i would battle for 1st chair through out all those years! Music is so much fun,even if ya cant read it,lol!!!
What a great group of professionals, thank you for all the great music.
That was great, loved listening to musicians talk about their craft and play it
Thank you for sharing these wonderful memories and your generous work, here! My Mother and my husband, both, are also interested in these glorious videos as well. My husband used to be another great studio musician in the late '60's + '70's. He really appreciates these inspirational memories. 😀💗
Kimberly J. Sullivan - Big Jim?
Joe Osborn passed away few days ago. Another great musician and part of the rock'n'roll and pop legacy is gone.
Loved seeing Glen & lee talk about Tommy Tedesco. When I started investigating session musicians (the albums never credited them when I was a kid) Tommy was the one cat I really dug. Glen, bless his heart, was humble with a heart as big as a whale had public exposure on TV & single artist stardom. But Tommy was a studio cat secret armed with talent, chops, chart-reading finesse and a very wry, dry sense of humour...not to say a real sweet guy.
Could listen to these players all day.
My family designed the interiors of both Hal Blaine and Glen Campbell back in the early 1970's. I was a truck driver and got to deliver their framed gold records to their homes. They already had a shit load.
LUCKY YOU
I love reading the comments u always find something interesting
@tracy 511 ..yes!
when someone like clarkewi shares a story like that in a video like this one, it’s like an extra dessert or finding cash in an old coat pocket.
This is an example of the sort of “community” there needs to be more of on the youtubes. Too many divisive and downright mean comments in so many comment sections.
I’d much rather be enlightened than fighting.
Glen was a highly sought after studio musician who wrote a long string of hits that made him a Superstar.
Never having learned to read music.
Painter Dood - Glen was an incredible talent, but not a songwriter
This is GREAT! I so enjoyed it and the others!
I enjoyed this, Gil. Thank you so much! Glad to have you.
+Paul Gaston Thanks, Paul!
I could list of these guys talk all day long it was so interesting
Love this! Brings back a lot of wonderful memories of their work, and my time in studio!
I sang most of my life... from school chorus, to Church music and beyond... and never learned how to read music! LOL!
But I learned to 'recognize' the positions of the notes and what each one should sound like ... but I couldn't tell you if it was a C-sharp or an F-flat...
And I learned to 'hear' the chord progressions so I could hit a note that 'harmonized' even if it wasn't the note I was seeing on the page... or if I was just 'singing with the radio' on a song I had never heard before...
Amazing Talent Each one of them are Unique
A complete and accurate list of all the songs each of these folks played on would be amazing to see - and mind boggling!
GREAT upload! These guys are massive legends. Nancy on the green screen has a certain odd element that adds to it.
I really enjoyed all these and I have shared them with a dozen folks today. Love this stuff.
Thanks, Randy!
Just talkin, and playing great music, regular amazing guys.
Great love Carol
Glen Campbell was a Beach Boy for about 4 to 6 months ... and Brian Wilson gave him one of his big songs! the Wrecking Crew so talented!
...succeeded by Bruce Johnston, an overlooked Beach Boy. The best era of their work was when Bruce was with them. Pet Sounds, Wild Honey, 20/20, Sunflower, Surf’s Up
Glen was also a member of The Champs of "Tequila" fame but was not a member during that time.
After Brian had his first nervous breakdown and stopped touring, Glen came aboard to tour, playing the bass and singing the falsetto part. If I could post pictures here of them together, I would.
The song was Guess I'm Dumb. Great song
RIP Glen, another true legend passes.
Thank you for "Session Men"! I have read some books and many articles about these great studio musicians. This video best captures the essence of their energy, creativity, and history. Remarkable performers. Remarkable session stories. Remarkable film making.
+BringBackMyYesterday Thanks!
Music IS indeed, art.
However the output of these musicians was to a business arrangement.
The recording industry is, without a doubt... a COMPETITIVE business.
Sad that art is "marketed"....but it is.
And not solely a capitalistic endeavor....at the time a great deal of it had to do with distribution.
For the artist (Monkees, Sinatra, Aretha, Elvis...whoever) the only way to get your music in front of people (pre-internet) was to have tasty
arrangements, flawless instrumentation, good production and a management team and a label behind them.
There was no music downloads, live streams or TH-cam in those days, and touring just wouldn't get the job done.
Between the pop music of our past and even the commercials where people like Tommy Tedesco, Dennis Budimir....even Larry Carlton contributed a
"sound" ; our sensibilities and our musical consciousness were shaped to feel and look for certain kinds of melodic structure and
cued to even anticipate the hooks and licks of these people.
The biggest shame is that these artists were expected to take such a workman-like approach to music....when it is easy to see that every
one of them had the chops and passion to make masterpieces...instead of backdrops or airline commercials.....
So where's the whole documentary?
Watch the movie "The Wrecking Crew" -- it's fantastic!
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Some of the best musicians on the planet in this clip.....
The Wrecking Crew...they WERE the music of my youth, much like the FUNK BROTHERS of Motown. Enjoyed this clip very much.
Amazing talent and chemistry.....how many hours and sleepless nights creating the best music anyone has ever heard....just amazing everyone of them
This is awesome! I'm frustrated for you too about the "likes".. i think that when folks see the old footage, they assume that the documentary is as old as the music.. perhaps adding something new to it.. not sure what.. would make it look more contemporary..but then again.. it's musicians that have been there and done that, the truly appreciate all the hard work you've done with this piece and part 1 as well. I'm honored to be a part of this in "Session Men Memphis" - Part One. This is truly such a great memory for me. You should do a film on background singers too.. who sing demo's for songwriters, and then the BIG artist records and steals that singers licks and runs as if she came up with it.. it happens all the way around.. I sang the demo to Celine Dion's first U.S. hit, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" and the songwriters told me she was learning to speak english when she recorded the song. And the first time I heard the song on the radio, I had to pull my car over, cause I couldn't believe that she truly had copied every ad lib and everything that I had done.. Weird feeling.. but very proud to have sung on it.
Duane Eddy utilized the enormous talents of Jim Horn and Larry Knechtel in his band before they became studio musicians. He had a knack for surrounding himself with great musicians. There are just a few videos of Duane, Jim and Larry in the early days appearing on the Dick Clark show. Wish there were tons more.
Breath of fresh air.
Wrecking Crew was amazing.
rip glen campbell, leon russel, larry knechtel, bones howe, earl palmer
Joe Osborn just passed away in December
and now Hal
Utter genius. Every one of them.
the Wrecking Crew completely blows my mind! Can't wait to see the movie!!!
Right on for the Wrecking Crew!!
R.I.P. Glen Campbell August 8th 2017.
After watching some videos of Glen from the time of this one, you can hear Glen starting to have speech issues...some slurring. He was probably starting to experience the onset of his disease.
I was so sad when Glenn died, he has been my favorite for many many years. God Bless his soul.
It was sad to hear Campbell say "and I'll never forget the..."
Alzheimer's is a horrible thing.Makes me think about how many things I have forgot.
Glen Campbell: self-taught musical prodigy. Grew up a poor farm boy in the south. His uncle bought him a $5 guitar from Sears, and he learned guitar on his own, listening to Django Reinhardt records and playing with his family. One of the most overlooked and underrated guitarists of all-time. When Glen passed, there’s a news interview with his sober Christian golf buddy from Arizona, Alice Cooper. Alice recalls a story of when he was hanging with Van Halen, and Eddie Van Halen asks Alice to introduce him to Glen because he wants to learn some guitar licks from him. Wow.
Musicians like this just don't exist, or are very few and far between. They made the producers sound great. A lot of the production was the brilliant musicians working along with the producers to get the best performances. Those artists would have never made those great records without them. I would rate Glen Campbell right along with Chet Atkins, he was brilliant.
To hear connections of these masters path which are independently connected are still a learning amazement after 40 + years of hearing this evolution of wonders.
I love the Tommy Tedesco reference, I used to read Tommy's articles in the music magazines in the 70's...
What a huge amount of talent there. Glen is playing the electric guitar sans amp during this whole thing. FWIW, Willie Nelson was a session guitarist for Frank Sinatra.
Rip Tommy Tedesco. My personal mentor at GIT better know as musicians institute
Fascinating!
wish i could have hugged a few of these guys and said THANK YOU especially Mr. K, Hal Joe and Don. missing is Tommy T.