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Interview with Denny Tedesco, Director of “The Wrecking Crews” documentary. By Patrick O’Heffernan

March 21, 2015

 Interview with Denny Tedesco, Director of “The Wrecking Crews” documentary on the session musicians who brought the world rock and roll.   Patrick O’Heffernan (Los Angeles) The film The Wrecking Crew, is the story of guitarist Tommy Tedesco and the session musicians who played on hundreds, if not thousands of the hit records of the 60’s and 70’s.  Eighteen years in the making, The Wrecking Crew features interviews with the group members, stars like Cher and Nancy Sinatra and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, plus the music of the times.   Few fans realized that the people playing on the 45’s they bought were often not the bands shown on the cover, but a fluid group of session musicians, some of whom did not originally like rock and roll  but made a good living playing it in the studio. When Tedesco was diagnosed with cancer in 1996, his son Denny, a TV producer,  started taping interviews to record that era and the people who made it happen. With the help of family, friends and [Read More]

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The Wrecking Crew:  without a doubt the best music documentary made to date. By Patrick O’Heffernan

March 12, 2015

In the late forties and early 50’s, thousands of men who had returned home from World War II found that the Midwest farms and Southern towns and even the Texas oil patch could not support their families.  So they headed to Southern California to work in the burgeoning aircraft industry, often with guitars and drum kits strapped on top of their cars. When they got there they found year-round sunshine, surfing, bikinis,  an auto-obsessed culture and an attitude of openness and risk taking.  So when songs like Shake Rattle and Roll, Rocket 88 and Rock Around the Clock began breaking down the barriers against  the new rock music form, they embraced it, popularizing what was first called the “California Sound” and then simply,  “rock and roll”. Unknowingly, they kicked off a musical revolution that spread around the world. At the center of that revolution was a group of twenty to thirty men – and one woman – who were the unknown and uncredited session musicians on thousands of the recordings from the 50’s to the [Read More]

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Trailer for new Terminator Genisys movie features Jetta mysterious cover of classic rock song

December 4, 2014

Have you seen the new trailer for Terminator Genisys Movie? You are probably wondering why I am even talking about an upcoming movie release here on our music site, but I wanted to share with you about the music featured in the new trailer.  The trailer features a very haunting mysterious cover from Jetta of the classic rock song, I’d Love To Change The World. I remember my older brothers and sisters playing the Ten Years After album and it always takes me back to my childhood. The British singer, Jetta performs a wonderful cover, produced by Joseph Trapanese and does a wonderful job at recreating a dark and ethereal vibe to the song. Yo can watch the trailer by visiting here: http://www.terminatormovie.com/  or check it out here: Can’t get enough of the song, then you can check out Jetta‘s full version  here: How about going back and taking a listen to the original so you can really appreciate the artistic creativity put into the remake. Here is Ten Years After version:   So I will [Read More]