Tommy Tedesco | Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say

Archive for Tommy Tedesco

Segarini – Denny Tedesco and the Story of The Wrecking Crew Movie

Posted in Opinion with tags Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Denny Tedesco, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Thompson, Movies, music, Music Radio, music videos, radio, Records, segarini, The Wrecking Crew, Tommy Tedesco, Wrecking Crew - The Movie on February 23, 2015 by segarini

I have amazing friends.

Without them, I would be eating cardboard by the middle of the month, getting drunk by mixing Windex with Tang, or chugging bottles of Listerine, and enjoying snow on a 17 inch B&W TV while I licked pictures of popcorn.

It was one of these friends who made it possible for me to endure stepping out into what I can only describe as a Montreal Winter in the normally mild confines of Toronto, not once, but twice, last week.

Why?

Because he secured invites to a party for and tickets to a screening of a documentary about a time and place and group of people that has been 20 years in the making…and invited me along.

=0=

Continue reading →

4 Comments »

Doug Thompson: HAL BLAINE – DANCE TO THE DRUMMER MAN!

Posted in Opinion with tags Art Garfunkel. Roy Halee, Benny Benjamin, Bill Drake, Bob Segarini, Bobby Darin, Charlie Watts, Cherry Cola's, D.J. Fontana, Dave Clark, DBAWIS, Denny Tedesco, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Thompson, Ginger Baker, Hal Blaine, Jay & The Americans, John Bonham, John Lennon, Karen Carpenter, Keith Moon, Larry Evoy, LORNE GREENE, Motown, music, Neil Diamond, Neil Peart, Paul Simon, Phil Collins, Phil Spector, Records, Ringo Starr, Roy Orbison, Sheila E, Stewart Copeland, Terry Melcher., The Byrds, The Wrecking Crew, Tommy Roe, Tommy Tedesco on February 16, 2015 by segarini

My last blog on January 26^th on “The Wrecking Crew” documentary went through the roof in terms of readership, so Boss Segarini tells me. I think that’s mainly because Denny Tedesco, the Director of the documentary about the session musicians of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s, re-posted it to his list of contacts.

Continue reading →

Doug Thompson: DON’T MESS WITH THE WRECKING CREW!

Posted in Opinion with tags Al Casey, Al De Lory, Al Vescovo, America, Barney Kessel, Bill Aken, Bill Pitman, Billy Strange, Bobby Vee, Brian Wilson, Buffalo Springfield, Buffy Sainte Marie, Carol Kaye, Chuck Berghofer, Crazy Horse, Darlene Love, David Goggin, DBAWIS, Dean Martin, Denny Tedesco, Don Peake, Don Randi, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Bartenfeld, Doug Thompson, Duane Eddy, Earl Palmer, Elvis Presley, First Edition, Frank Capp, Frank Sinatra, Gary Coleman, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, Gene Cipriano, Gene Estes, George Harrison, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Howard Roberts, Irv Rubins, Jack Nitzsche, Jackie DeShannon, James Burton, Jan & Dean, Jay Migliori, Jeff Porcaro, Jennifer Warnes, Jerry Cole, Jim Gordon, Jim Horn, Jim Keltner, Jimmy Bond, Jimmy Page, Joe Cocker, Joe Osborn, Joe Porcaro, Joe Saraceno, John Denver, John Goldthwaite, John Lennon, Johnny Rivers, Julius Wechter, Kenny Rogers, Kent Hartman., Kickstarter, Larry Knechtel, Larry Levine, Leon Russell, Leonard Cohen, Louis Shelton, Lyle Ritz, Mac Rebennack (Dr. John), Max Bennett, Mike Deasy, Mike Melvoin, Mike Porcaro, Mike Rubini, Movies, music, music videos, Nancy Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Nilsson, Nino Tempo, P.F. Sloan, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Petula Clark, Phil Spector, Plas Johnson, radio, Ray Pohlman, Records, Red Callender, Rene Hall, segarini, Simon & Garfunkel, Sonny & Cher, Sonny Bono, Steve Douglas, Steve Porcaro, The 5th Dimension, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Captain & Tennille, The Carpenters, The Crystals, The Funk Brothers, The Grassroots, The Mamas & The Papas, The Marketts, The Monkees, The Partridge Family, The Righteous Brothers, The Rolling Stones, The Ronettes, The Routers, The Searchers, The T-Bones, The Wrecking Crew, Tommy Roe, Tommy Tedesco, Toto, Will Jennings on January 26, 2015 by segarini

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.

Continue reading →

5 Comments »

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 segarini

John 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.