kips 10:30 Sun Nov 13
Leon Russell R.I.P
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Another Icon from the golden age of music
Joins his mate Joe Cocker for some great gigs in heaven - Great music
R.I.P
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mike hunt
3:47 Mon Nov 14
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read the book!!! it surprised me that they (a loose collective, for the more pedantic)played on a lot more than you would have thought even the early byrds stuff, real top top hits
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Swiss.
11:13 Mon Nov 14
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Sounds like a complete old fart.
Thank god for Punk, New Wave and House.
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Far Cough
11:06 Mon Nov 14
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Sven, that's alright, he has True Grit
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Sven Roeder
11:02 Mon Nov 14
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Glen Campbell might not be far behind
Is 80 and in final stages of Alzheimers
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Far Cough
10:59 Mon Nov 14
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Well yeah, they were only called the Wrecking Crew later on by Hal Blaine the drummer, because of disparaging remarks made to them by other musicians but they were definitely a very good group of session musicians
Incidentally, I have just learned that Glen Campbell was also a member
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Sven Roeder
10:56 Mon Nov 14
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I guess he was more of a behind the scenes guy .... a musicians musician as the cliché goes with his best work done with people like Joe Cocker and Elton John.
RIP
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
10:55 Mon Nov 14
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Kind of posthumously bestowed on a bunch of blokes who were just the blokes on the LA session scene at the time. As distinct to the Mar-Keys who were a clearly identifiable group of players who sometimes recorded and toured in that name. And the Funk brothers who were somewhere in between.
And no disrespect at all to any of the musicians concerned.
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Far Cough
10:53 Mon Nov 14
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Surf, what do you mean by "made up"?
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
10:43 Mon Nov 14
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Hmmm. No disrespect to Leon Russell, but the whole 'Wrecking Crew' thing is a bit made up. LA's extraordinarily fluid and large white answer to the Funk Brothers who were Detroit's fluid and large answer to the Mar-Keys - who were about ten blokes.
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BubblesCyprus
10:26 Mon Nov 14
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Another R.I,P thread who I have never heard of.
Getting old is not good.
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Far Cough
10:02 Mon Nov 14
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Mike Hunt, Wrecking Crew were brilliant, played on the Beach Boys and Ronettes as well as others, I personally rate Hal Blaine the drummer, I never knew Leon Russell was part of the Wrecking Crew though
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joe royal
2:42 Mon Nov 14
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WHO?
Honesty never heard of him.
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MikeHammer
1:57 Mon Nov 14
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RIP Leon .... Respect for Madison Sq Gdn 1971
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mike hunt
1:37 Mon Nov 14
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he was a member of the "wrecking crew" which played on just about everything that came out of america in the 60s and early 70s, seriously, nearly everything check out the book the wrecking crew, a real eye opener
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stomper
1:13 Mon Nov 14
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Bloody hell!
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Mike Oxsaw
10:42 Sun Nov 13
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Master craftsman was Mr. Russell. The respect from his fellow musicians is clear on George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh (album).
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NHD
10:40 Sun Nov 13
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Dropping like flies this year ffs
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kips
10:35 Sun Nov 13
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Enjoy - A tour de force from Leon and Joe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHA2afBxmbs
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