What are you listening to part three

Packmule

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Lately I've been coming back to Moody Blues music on YouTube. The Voice. Story In Your Eyes. I'm Just A Singer In A Rock N Roll Band.
They don't make good music like they used to!
 

wkmac

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Those L.A. sidemen "benny and the benjamins" really changed music, created the rock and roll sound that everyone heard on the radio. Many people don't realize that most of the hits they were hearing weren't even the musicians from the band. ;) 5:50 is the best part, union musicians just doing their job.
WKMac may enjoy this one.

Ah, the infamous Wrecking Crew. Amazing collection of session players from the great Carol Kaye to Glen Campbell to Leon Russell among many, many more. Carol played bass/guitar on songs from The Beach Boys, The Doors, The Monkees, even Zappa and that's just a drop in the bucket of over 10k recordings she has played on. Denny Tedesco, son of the late Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco made a documentary film "The Wrecking Crew" which is well worth the watch.

Other great session players were Motown's Funk Brothers and then down south at Doraville Georgia's Studio One, a group of session players who would become the Atlanta Rhythm Section. And of course Muscle Shoals had the infamous Swampers.

There would be no music without the little known session players.
 
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