Experiences like that are life-changing - your gratitude comes through your words...

Mike Simpson Great story! Thanks for sharing it with us!!!

..you were one lucky man, I would've loved to have met him, what an experience that must have been. He seemed like such a down to earth guy, I just watched wrecking crew, I never realized how many musical stars that had number one hit records, never played an instrument. I'm 62 and I've always loved music and just learned something after watching that movie/documentary. Best to you.

Won't take up space?

Take any more space? How bout keep on goin, great story!

Great player with a big heart and wonderful sense of humour.

His Guitar Player column was regularly hilarious.

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I think it was Louie Shelton on LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE

Thanks for share your great experience here.. I'am a Guitar Player but not really good to be a session player,hahaa.. I'am from South East Asia,not a good place to learn Jazz,bcos most of the player here playing Rock.. The session guitarist here also the rock guy and some can't read the notation.. I'am not familiar with Jazz Fusion or the guy playing it until some day i heard Lee Ritenour.. And start interested by his playing and search if he play the other style.. Ohhh my God.. I have no idea that i listen to one of the great session player in L.A.. Then i found Carlton Four Play Sanborn and more to Jazz Fusion Funk RnB and Blues.. I don't care if someone can play 1000 note a bit,or the over flashy playing,that style not get my attention anymore.. I love if the player playing just enough to serve and support the song itself and make the song sound good... Than i realise only The Session Player playing like that,and more interested to Session Musicians than the soloist the speeder the shredder or the lightning overplay player.. The latest Guitaristi heard was the late Hiram Bullock.. I belive you knew him,he play for many artist and Guitar Player for other musicians like Sanborn Bob James Marcuss Miller John Scofield and many more.. He could play on anything but he himself i think more to the Blues Funk Fusion Rock RnB player.. I'am sorry i share nothing here but just my favorite player.. You're really lucky guy who living on the place where all the great musicians living,and i belive you also great and talented player.. Have a nice day sir..🤗🤗

There are a lot that fill his seat and a lot better players.

Well said, and you ain't kidding!! They should be inducted into the rock 'n' roll Hall of fame!! Probably even today, most people have never heard of Tommy Tedesco or Plas Joknson tenor sax, Don Randi( keyboards) , Hal Blaine( drums) or any of the rest of those great players!!. They "deserve" that recognition!!.---- nothing less!!. It's long past due!!.

Why shame them with that albatross hung around their necks?

Correct. There is a great bio of her on You Tube. It ends with her taking the cameraman back to the studio (Capitol ?) and they refused to let her in.

Post a separate video about her why detract from tedesco

@@maxsavage3998 All of them deserve recognition where they can get it.

She's not overlooked, anyone who knows about these cats knows of Kaye. She was a Beast bassist.

The 60s was all about "The American top 40" on AM. FM? WTF is that? There weren't 1000s of stations representing every genre of music, which is how we came to know them.

Me, too. I wanted to have a job like Tommy T. had. I neglected to get the proper training/education to pull off that kind of gig. RIP, Tommy T. Thank you, Denny T. for putting the Wrecking Crew Movie together.

have all these columns been collected into a book?

@@lamper2 Jeez I wish!!!!! Sending GP an email about it. His column was ALWAYS Excellent reading.

@@rb032682 I also read his column in Australia in the late 70s, and found him a good columnist. But he didn't really discuss the Wrecking Crew years.

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they sold some of Les Pauls guitars they may make his house into a museum

2 words Johnny Rivers.

The unseen woman sitting at that table and speaking had to be Carol Kaye.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame houses the ashes of Alan Freed. Thanks to Terry Stewart the place will have relevance in perpetuity. So no matter what your beef is with the place or the people now running it, please have at least some small measure of respect for the history that it holds within its walls.

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@@thomashumphrey9797 ooohhh wow. Thank you so much for that. I'm going to watch that 100 times today alone. I think he did it a few times, not sure. I thought he had his beard in one or two. I might be mistaken. I can't thank you enough for that link.

I'm with you. Surprised that the said that about his dad. That's like saying someone will replace, DaVinic, Picasso, Elvis, Sinatra, Brando or Francis Ford Coppola.

that's my marriage

I got there a little bit after you, pounding on the ceiling of the Hollywood Wax Museum. Tommy was so supportive and made a daunting task (getting into the system of working studio players) seem funny and not so scary. He was the same guy one on one as in a big crowd. He made a difference for a big big bunch of us.

Carol Kaye right behind him.

I was raised In San Carlos. My old man worked at Ampex

I was an electronics nerd who used and repaired lots of Ampex audio and video gear during my career, including their early 2" videotape "quad" head VTR recording systems. In the beginning, and for many years, the television recording industry and the commercial networks owed their successes to the Ampex Corporation and those VTRs. Ampex professional reel to reel audio recorders were the industry standards. One of the best museum experiences I ever had was touring the old Redwood City plant and museum. Lots of great broadcasting history there.

Bill Church Left in 1962. I think ampex was on its last legs by then. Silicon Valley consisted of little more than apricot and cherry trees. Hewlett-Packard has just been organized. Apple was operating out of Steve Jobs’ garage in menlo park. I was playing music for fraternity parties at Stanford and Cal. We actually played for David packards’ daughter’s wedding reception in I think it was 1959z. Who knew?

Nothing's of topic for me Timmy - I am just a limey picker and fascinated by everything that happened in the USA - reading all these comments is an educational for me

Yes, I'm Livin' in Shame had some great guitar

There is more than enough Carol on you tube!

Carol has a legit complaint about the name. Hal made the name up for his book. They were known as the Clique in the 60s and 70s.

It's not a mini-documentary, it's just a few clips taken from The Wrecking Crew movie, primarily to reference Tedesco in regards to the sale of his instruments 5 years ago.

That was the "music business" back then!. Very sad but true!!. These players should have gotten the album credits, but, I guess the producer or whomever decided that was not the thing to do because it would somehow diminish in the minds of the fans that these "session cats" we're really the "magic" on those tracks that made those singers sound so good!!. And, if it was a self contained group, the "wrecking crew" made that group really "pop!!". It was really a "shame!", in my opinion that they didn't get the universal "recognition" they so richly deserved, and the young players who were coming up in the business, never really "knew" who those fantastic players were!. I had no idea that "the crew" was the backbone of all of those great hits of the 60's and 70's!!. Had they been revealed on the album s the "real musicians" who did the backing tracks, it would have "inspired" countless young players to follow their careers more closely!!.

@@victorarno7749 So true Victor, those session musicians ("real musicians") were in a class of their own, very polished and talented !!

Yeah, no doubt about that!! She "IS" a stone cold fox!!!. She was blessed with gorgeous looks!!.

Yes yes, Yes Indeedy!

So glad you appreciated the tribute. We will always be huge fans too.

yes what a knockout she is

Well, you are gonna be looking for a long time, I'm afraid!!. Cats like "these" are in short supply these days!!.they were a "rare breed" of players, indeed!!.

Carl, Thank you for sharing this!

Niagara Falls

@@tomquinn7560 that's what I've always thought too. People keep telling me different, I know I'm from the Falls.

Niagara Falls, I was born there too. Unfortunately it wasn’t something in the water , as a 45 year pro bar musician I’m still not worthy to carry Tommy’s amp to a session . Tommy was Easily the best ever to come from western New York, he’s considered a God here!

@@bryanstaddon5998 the Ontario house ! We tryed to gig there no dice ! But it was a cool place to hang out, many great jazz artists would stop in and play, passing thru from Toronto , I know Tommy played in there.