So, what project in your life has taken you the longest to complete? Has anything you’ve really wanted to do ever taken you 18 years? Most likely not, but that’s how long it took director Denny Tedesco to complete his documentary on a small group of musicians in Los Angeles who, from the late 1950’s through to the 1970’s, supplied the rhythm section (drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion, saxophone) for hundreds, if not thousands of hit records.
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Doug Thompson: WHAT, IS IT NEW YEARS ALREADY?
Posted in Opinion with tags Angelo Bruno, Best of 2013, Bob Segarini, Bones Howe, Brian Epstein, Carol Kaye, Carpenters, Catherine O’Hara, Cher, CHUM Radio, Dave Hull, David Wayne, DBAWIS, Dean Martin, Denny Tedesco, Dick Clark, Don Randi, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Freda Kelly, Gerald Posner, Glen Campbell, Grammy Awards, Hal Blaine, Henry Rushkin, Herb Alpert, Jerry Blavat, John Candy, John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Johnny Carson, Joni Mitchell, Kanye West, Ken Levine, KHJ, Kim Kardashian, KRLA, Larry Knectel, Lee Harvey Oswald, Leon Russell, Lou Adler, Mark Lewisohn, music, Nancy Sinatra, Nino Tempo, Petula Clark, radio, Records, Richard Belzer, Rolling Stone, Sammy Davis Jr., Stan Cornyn, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Fugs, The Grateful Dead, The Monkees, The Real Don Steele, Tommy Tedesco, Vincent Bugliosi, X Prime on January 15, 2014 by segariniJohn Lennon said it best in one of my all time favourite songs of his: “So this is Christmas and what have you done. Another year over, a new one just begun.” I do so wish that Lennon was still here to continue with his amazing talent. But some self-centered asshole with a hand gun and a diseased brain (or a mind-controlled one, for all of you conspiracy buffs) silenced that legendary voice forever 33 years ago.