Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Music masters
There is a whole period in Rock and Roll history where everything happened on the West Coast.
A lot of hits were churned out during this period. Today's film is a documentary about the studio musicians who worked as backup for the star artists. They often made the whole thing work with their sounds an innovations.
The film is made by a son of one of the guys who did the heavy lifting behind the scenes for major acts.
There doesn't seem to be any anger around this at all. It is more about illuminating a side of that business that has been kept quiet because, hey, who wants to know that their favorite rock star can't lay down a decent lick?
I liked it. There were even some teary moments as always occur in one of these things. Nice feelings.
Labels: documentary, films, music
