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Fun documentary on the contemporary Wrecking Crew. Worth watching IMHO. Makes Billy Joel look like a real ***hole, so not for the squeamish.
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12-17-2017 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by lammie200
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Yeah, this is mostly about contemporary rock musicians hired for touring gigs and some studio work.
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Originally Posted by lammie200
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I saw it, great documentary! Alice Cooper is a stand up guy, like I always suspected. And true on Billy Joel, but never thought much of his songs anyway.
the best line was, you never really fired in this business, you just don't get a call to do the next gig.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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It is worth watching but somewhat depressing compared to The Wrecking Crew. It made me think that there are tons of very fabulous guitarists out there, many unemployed.
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Originally Posted by Marty Grass
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I thought it was too heavy on the metal guys and not other guys that we've heard about. Not much about some of the bigger names, and it seemed odd that the only part with Lukather centered on him writing one song. Funny story though. I'd like to have heard more like that and those hired guns. Nobody like Benmont Tench in it, mostly guitarists and drummers.
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I watched about half of it. It didn't really seem to have much of a focus, except for the overall subject. I also thought all the guitarists were playing more or less the same
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Originally Posted by lammie200
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by M-ster
I love the attitude of all of those Glam guitarists, don't need much for a song,
"Let's do a fast blues in A" and let the bending/shredding/lightning fast licks rip
And WOW Kenny Aronoff is SO LOUD!!!
They had the 3 All-star lead guys going at it FULL-BLAST, with Bass
And all I could hear was Kenny
My takeaways:
- I didn't think Billy J came off so badly, could have S-canned his band when George Martin told him to
- Poor Brad Gillis, not his fault RR died, but fans were hating on the poor guy
- Best line of the show: David Foster "Good is the Enemy of Great"
- I had always heard "Beat It" solo was EVH, Lukather sez he played all guitar/bass on that record
- I've still never heard of Five-Finger-Death-Punch, but they likely don't play them on my "Jobim" channel...
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Should have looked this up 1st...
Eddie Van Halen's guitar solo[edit]
Eddie Van Halen, lead guitarist of hard rock band Van Halen, was asked to add a guitar solo.[6][16] When initially contacted by Jones, Van Halen thought he was receiving a prank call.[17] Having established that the call was genuine, Van Halen borrowed an amplifier from guitarist Allan Holdsworth[18] and recorded his guitar solo free of any charge. "I did it as a favor", the musician later said. "I was a complete fool, according to the rest of the band, our manager and everyone else. I was not used. I knew what I was doing – I don't do something unless I want to do it."[19] Van Halen recorded his contribution following Jones and Jackson arriving at the guitarist's house with a "skeleton version" of the song. Fellow guitarist Steve Lukather recalled, "Initially, we rocked it out as Eddie had played a good solo—but Quincy thought it was too tough. So I had to reduce the distorted guitar sound and that is what was released."[19]
Right before Van Halen's guitar solo begins, a noise is heard that sounds like somebody knocking at a door. It is reported that the knock was a person walking into Eddie's recording studio. Another story has claimed that the sound was simply the musician knocking on his own guitar.[20] The sound, however, is that of Jackson knocking on a drum case, as he is credited in the album's liner notes.
The engineers were shocked during the recording of Van Halen's solo to discover that the sound of his guitar had caused the monitor speaker in the control room to catch fire, causing one to exclaim, "This must be really good!"[21]
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EVH did play the solo on Beat It. You don't even need anyone to tell you, it's unmistakable by listening. Lukather played all the rhythm parts and fills.
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I swear to God, for the 1st few months after that song came out, no clue it was MJ
I was SURE it was Pat Benatar!!!
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I believe this is the entire video documentary from Youtube. Very entertaining but long...
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I will have to give this a watch, as I love rock music docs, even the bad ones.
Having been to many, many shows over the years, I have seen some great journeyman musicians supporting the stars. Some like Nils Lofgren even get made part of the band, though not always with the same pay and benefits as the original guys...
This could be a whole thread in and of itself.
A couple of my faves are Rick Leisz--steel and Tele twanger extrrordinaire--and Earl Slick, frequent Bowie collaborator. The best can play anything at the drop of a hat, AND add a little something extra to whomever they're playing with.
I will have to look up the names, but the guitarists supporting Heart and Rod Stewart were very young and quite good. Paul McCartney's guys Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray are no slouches, as well.
I saw Blake Mills backing Lucinda Williams, and he has since gone on to bigger things, including solo work and producing some of the best albums of recent years (Alabama Shakes for instance).
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my favorite was Rudy... as he states, he was in 3 huge bands, Quiet Riot, Ozzy, the Whitesnake...
What cracked me up was his photo for Whitesnake, he was a blond!!
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I just knew I had seen this, but I couldn't recall details, until it was mentioned how much of a a-hole Billy Joel was, then I remembered it !!
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'20 feet from stardom' is another good one, backing singers telling their stories....not sure if it's on netflix tho'
Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013) - IMDb
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Originally Posted by dot75
The biggest eye opener for me was that Ted Nugent didn't sing. I never saw him play live and always assumed he was also the singer.
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As with the backup singers in 20 Feet...there's a reason most of them don't front their own bands. Much of the time they like being a hired hand and appreciate the flexibility and lack of responsibility for running the whole show.
The smart ones, like Earl Slick, Nile Rodgers, etc., make an entire career out of being out of the spotlight.
A couple more great hired guns come to mind...
Rick Derringer (and pretty much anyone who's ever toured with Ringo Starr LOL...)
Elliott Randall
Dean Parks (saw him with Lyle Lovett)
Waddy Wachtel (saw him with James Taylor)
Mike Landau (also James Taylor)
Billy Preston
George Duke
Nicky Hopkins
Chuck Leavell
Derek Sherinian (saw him with Joe Bonamassa)
Bobby Keys
Dick Parry
Lou Marini (James Taylor)
Steve Gadd (James Taylor)
A lot of these musicians have had hit records, played in great groups, etc., but touring with a more established artist seems to pay the bills.Last edited by Doctor Jeff; 09-19-2018 at 09:04 PM.
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Earl Slick!! That dude is unreal, on Bowie live video, playing a Peavey on "Stay"... Classic
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Stay:
I think Earl and Carlos Alomar came up with the guitar riffs for Golden Years, which is worth some kind of award in my book.
That reminds me of Steve Hunter--his work on Lou Reed's Rock'n'Roll Animal is iconic. Sometimes the sideman just takes the original up to another level. Robert Quine also did some stellar work with LR.
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Like him or not, Billy Joel wrote one of the truest love songs of all time. There's an honest lesson about what it truly means to love someone in that song if ones heart is open to hearing it. And jazz saxophonist Phil Woods solo kills it. I've got a transcription of his solo somewhere.
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