`these guys wouldnt get through round 1 of the xfactor! vocals are shocking. Good job the backing band were the best available in the States at the time!!
hey there knugabug: you have your facts all wrong dude! jan injured his leg on the set of their movie easy come easy go in 1965; this clip was for their upcoming tv series (the pilot episode) due to air in the fall of 1966. And as far as the accident goes, you are wrong again! it happened at the intersection of sunset and whittier! get your facts right dude!
Jan & Dean's ill-fated motion picture footage '65. Hal Blaine as "Clubber". Imagine the money lost on this thing after Jan got creamed in Acton California filming it....didn't matter anyway, that hard right turn from Sunset to Greenway to the other side of the street (he lost his tire before he hit the truck) in front of Gene Barry's house to total destruction of the '66 Stingray fiberglass (it was in 6" pieces with Jan in the metal frame with one imbedded in his forehead) ended it..
@MangoChunks thats a Danelecro Vincent Bell Belzouki. Vinnie had Nat build him a slew of signature models, the most famous being the coral sitar.tats the12 string in his lineup
I am amazingly lucky to get to play with Don Peake every summer up here on Lopez Island at the Islander resort. He is one of the greatest musicians of our time...
Those with enough true interest in Motown, google "lost my athletic scholarship after participating in the civil rights sit-ins". This is from that page about Frank Wilson of Motown (& note "regulars"): "The[...] musicians for [a particular late '65 Motown session] were pulled from the studio regulars that included Billy Strange, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Al De Lory, Carol Kaye and Tommy Tedesco.[...] As far as it can be established the tapes were dispatched to Detroit [in] November 1965[....]"
Quote from Frank Wilson of Motown from that page, which says "Frank Wilson March 2009" near the top: "Gordy came out several times [to L.A....] [W]e were taking [him] to the airport[...] and he said, 'What makes you think you can produce?', I said, 'Because I've been producing much of the stuff that you've been hearing'. So he turned to Marc [Gordon] and Hal [Davis]. He said, 'Is that right?' And they said, 'Yes, that's right'." (Matches very well with claims CK made to me JNS about 8 years ago)
More from that page re Motown producer (etc.) Frank Wilson and his peers (who don't include Slutsky, who never attended any '60s Motown session or met Jamerson or Benjamin): "When Berry Gordy decided to open a West Coast Motown office, following his visit there to attend a disc jockey convention in 1963, he asked L.A. veterans Hal Davis, and Marc Gordon to take charge." (Matches what CK's been saying publicly for years -- frequently resulting in scornful reactions from her energetic detractors)
More from that F. Wilson page you can find by googling "I lost my athletic scholarship after participating in the civil rights sit-in demonstrations": "During 1964-65 Frank [Wilson] saw an increasing number of his compositions being released[....] Frank[...] soon found himself[...] supervising recording sessions.[...] At some point in 1965 the decision was taken to launch Frank Wilson as a Motown artist in his own right[... recording in] Armin Steiner's 8 track Sound Recorders studio[....]"
Here is part of a 2/18/2002 (2:03 P.M.) post on the Soulful Detroit Forum: "[...] I'm Billy Wilson President of the Motown Alumni Association.[...] Carol did play on a few lesser know recordings at Motown . . . and I do mean LESSER KNOWN! [...] From 1964 to 1968 the company only used Jamerson." Note that that last sentence contradicts that Frank Wilson page, on which Andrew Rix describes Kaye as one of the "regulars" in L.A. as of '65. (cont.)
Note that Billy Wilson presents himself in the 2/18/2002 post as knowing who played bass on every 1964-1968 Motown recording. (!!!) Now check this out from the same post: "The Motown Alumni Associaton provides information and gives assistance to entities such as the Library Of Congress, the Smithsonian Institute, Motown/Universal Music Group [this is people like Harry Weinger] ,Rythum & Blues Foundation, Motown artists[...]" Should we be surprised there's a Kaye-is-a-liar myth?
Quote from Armin Steiner, Mix magazine interview with Maureen Droney, 2001; compare it to Frank Wilson who was there -- and then to Billy Wilson, and to the Kaye detractors' myths: "From that moment on, word started traveling. Motown got interested, and I was busy all the time. I had Glen Campbell, Billy Strange, Tommy Tedesco, Dennis Budamir, [...] Ray Pohlman[...]. Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, Joe Osborne, Larry Knecht[e]l[...]" (cont.)
"[...] Bill Pittman, Mike Deasy and, of course, Carol Kaye.[...] I used to have The Supremes up there, Marvin Gaye — my mother used to cook for them. Stevie Wonder was in when he was 9 years old. People think I'm making this stuff up, but it's true. As a matter of fact, I did a film session with Stevie awhile back, and he remembered both me and my studio. It was a different time, a different place. You couldn't do that kind of thing now, the city wouldn't allow it. I mean, it was all illegal."
For people interested in Los Angeles & Motown, some questions fair-minded person can ask themselves. These are _Qs_, so anyone giving this post a thumbs down or removing it would be opposed to people asking these Qs (hmmmmm).
Does the Supremes' "The Happening" sound like HB?
Did JJ use a pick?
Is a pick audible on the Four Tops' "Eleanor Rigby"? Who may have played bass on it?
Same Qs, Stevie's "Respect"?
Same, B. Holloway's "Just Look What You've Done"?
Wow..I was searching for Tommy Tedesco..who I met at MIT Hollywwod and found this..He told us at that school that he did a lot of stuff from playing and sleeping on the streets to getting guitar jobs to playing the M*A*S*H theme guitar work..What a man..This band here sounds terrible but Tommys stuff was Gold to me
Wow! Rare ftg of The Wrecking Crew playing live at the height of their powers. Put this video in the smithsonian already. Nice to see Jan and Dean, too.
I've been watching Tommy's Hot Licks video. If anybody had the proper attitude for playing music and making money at it, it was him. R.I.P. Tommy. You were a BAD CAT!
I've watched the Pilot this is from several times with Hal. I think this concert footage was from the Santa Monica Civic. If it weren't for Jan's accident, the Jan & Dean show would've given The Monkees a run for their money. Elizabeth Montgomery does a cameo (her husband made the pilot) Hal, of course, is just great in it.
I knew Tommy Tedesco when he was a live. My father put his alarm in his house in Grand Island. My parents would take me over to his house and go swimming a few times. My parents even went out to dinner with him a few times. I knew him for a few years and he died when I was about 6 years old.
the musicians and Hal are the stars here..like what a joke,jan..or is it dean..is actually reading the Lyrics in a major performance (probably their biggest Live date?) for a cover song by the beatles!!!! wow..lame.
Clubagogo1234: H.BLAINE!. One of the best drummer in DRUM HISTORY. He recorded for ALL BIG GROUPS AND SINGERS. You must be hear he in you L.P. "DRUM A GO GO". Still, I have this L.P. in Argentina. As memorabilia: When Charlie Watts from Stones, went first time to L.A. the first wish was TO KNOW TO THE BIG HAL BLAINE. My best regard to Hall. Willy drumm, sax, from Argentina.
tommy tedesco was mainly a studio musician, he played on 5th dimension albums and partridge family and many others. i am from the same town as him niagara falls.
Got to see him last night at the Wrecking Crew screening in Palm Springs. Great documentary.
schuchnet 3 months ago
`these guys wouldnt get through round 1 of the xfactor! vocals are shocking. Good job the backing band were the best available in the States at the time!!
cafcredcoach1 3 months ago
Hal Blaine strikes again!
d0ng4to 8 months ago
Is this Jan and Dean. How chaotic!
georgebur 10 months ago
These guys suck pretty bad... another example of some guys who are simply bad still making it in music....what the Hey?
lclaughton 11 months ago
Examples of Shaken Baby Syndrome: @ 2:07 and 2:24
DancingSpiderman 1 year ago
If i was on acid i'd be running for the fucking door!!!! Scary shit!!! Luv ya Hal!!
jasonwhitedrum 1 year ago
Who is the cute blonde in all the cut shots? The editor and director had a thing for her? Great footage. Hal.......you Rock.
conkyjoe 2 years ago
Too many deaths on the road by too many teens, who never knew what tree hit them. I was once in an accident with one of them. Why didn't they
listen to the lyrics of these songs, instead of only the music?
VinDcator 2 years ago
hey there knugabug: you have your facts all wrong dude! jan injured his leg on the set of their movie easy come easy go in 1965; this clip was for their upcoming tv series (the pilot episode) due to air in the fall of 1966. And as far as the accident goes, you are wrong again! it happened at the intersection of sunset and whittier! get your facts right dude!
jandean1966 2 years ago
@jandean1966 who cares about those prefab bleach blonde fakes Jan and Dean. The wrecking crew is what is holding their sorry talents up.
freqazoidiac 1 year ago
@freqazoidiac' You are an idiot. That's why your account has been suspended!
kenmackow 1 year ago
Jan & Dean's ill-fated motion picture footage '65. Hal Blaine as "Clubber". Imagine the money lost on this thing after Jan got creamed in Acton California filming it....didn't matter anyway, that hard right turn from Sunset to Greenway to the other side of the street (he lost his tire before he hit the truck) in front of Gene Barry's house to total destruction of the '66 Stingray fiberglass (it was in 6" pieces with Jan in the metal frame with one imbedded in his forehead) ended it..
Knugabug 2 years ago
Look at Tommy Tedesco and his crazy guitar mandolin thing!
MangoChunks 2 years ago
@MangoChunks thats a Danelecro Vincent Bell Belzouki. Vinnie had Nat build him a slew of signature models, the most famous being the coral sitar.tats the12 string in his lineup
THEJEWMANGROUP 11 months ago
Hell is the star here, not the devils.
M3town3 2 years ago
I am amazingly lucky to get to play with Don Peake every summer up here on Lopez Island at the Islander resort. He is one of the greatest musicians of our time...
RedRocketProductions 2 years ago
That's right red rocket, we are lucky that Don Peake comes out here to lopez.
gschible 2 years ago
Those with enough true interest in Motown, google "lost my athletic scholarship after participating in the civil rights sit-ins". This is from that page about Frank Wilson of Motown (& note "regulars"): "The[...] musicians for [a particular late '65 Motown session] were pulled from the studio regulars that included Billy Strange, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Al De Lory, Carol Kaye and Tommy Tedesco.[...] As far as it can be established the tapes were dispatched to Detroit [in] November 1965[....]"
JosephNScott 2 years ago
Quote from Frank Wilson of Motown from that page, which says "Frank Wilson March 2009" near the top: "Gordy came out several times [to L.A....] [W]e were taking [him] to the airport[...] and he said, 'What makes you think you can produce?', I said, 'Because I've been producing much of the stuff that you've been hearing'. So he turned to Marc [Gordon] and Hal [Davis]. He said, 'Is that right?' And they said, 'Yes, that's right'." (Matches very well with claims CK made to me JNS about 8 years ago)
JosephNScott 2 years ago
More from that page re Motown producer (etc.) Frank Wilson and his peers (who don't include Slutsky, who never attended any '60s Motown session or met Jamerson or Benjamin): "When Berry Gordy decided to open a West Coast Motown office, following his visit there to attend a disc jockey convention in 1963, he asked L.A. veterans Hal Davis, and Marc Gordon to take charge." (Matches what CK's been saying publicly for years -- frequently resulting in scornful reactions from her energetic detractors)
JosephNScott 2 years ago
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More from that F. Wilson page you can find by googling "I lost my athletic scholarship after participating in the civil rights sit-in demonstrations": "During 1964-65 Frank [Wilson] saw an increasing number of his compositions being released[....] Frank[...] soon found himself[...] supervising recording sessions.[...] At some point in 1965 the decision was taken to launch Frank Wilson as a Motown artist in his own right[... recording in] Armin Steiner's 8 track Sound Recorders studio[....]"
JosephNScott 2 years ago
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Here is part of a 2/18/2002 (2:03 P.M.) post on the Soulful Detroit Forum: "[...] I'm Billy Wilson President of the Motown Alumni Association.[...] Carol did play on a few lesser know recordings at Motown . . . and I do mean LESSER KNOWN! [...] From 1964 to 1968 the company only used Jamerson." Note that that last sentence contradicts that Frank Wilson page, on which Andrew Rix describes Kaye as one of the "regulars" in L.A. as of '65. (cont.)
JosephNScott 2 years ago
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Note that Billy Wilson presents himself in the 2/18/2002 post as knowing who played bass on every 1964-1968 Motown recording. (!!!) Now check this out from the same post: "The Motown Alumni Associaton provides information and gives assistance to entities such as the Library Of Congress, the Smithsonian Institute, Motown/Universal Music Group [this is people like Harry Weinger] ,Rythum & Blues Foundation, Motown artists[...]" Should we be surprised there's a Kaye-is-a-liar myth?
JosephNScott 2 years ago
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Quote from Armin Steiner, Mix magazine interview with Maureen Droney, 2001; compare it to Frank Wilson who was there -- and then to Billy Wilson, and to the Kaye detractors' myths: "From that moment on, word started traveling. Motown got interested, and I was busy all the time. I had Glen Campbell, Billy Strange, Tommy Tedesco, Dennis Budamir, [...] Ray Pohlman[...]. Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, Joe Osborne, Larry Knecht[e]l[...]" (cont.)
JosephNScott 2 years ago
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"[...] Bill Pittman, Mike Deasy and, of course, Carol Kaye.[...] I used to have The Supremes up there, Marvin Gaye — my mother used to cook for them. Stevie Wonder was in when he was 9 years old. People think I'm making this stuff up, but it's true. As a matter of fact, I did a film session with Stevie awhile back, and he remembered both me and my studio. It was a different time, a different place. You couldn't do that kind of thing now, the city wouldn't allow it. I mean, it was all illegal."
JosephNScott 2 years ago
For people interested in Los Angeles & Motown, some questions fair-minded person can ask themselves. These are _Qs_, so anyone giving this post a thumbs down or removing it would be opposed to people asking these Qs (hmmmmm).
Does the Supremes' "The Happening" sound like HB?
Did JJ use a pick?
Is a pick audible on the Four Tops' "Eleanor Rigby"? Who may have played bass on it?
Same Qs, Stevie's "Respect"?
Same, B. Holloway's "Just Look What You've Done"?
Where has BH said the last was recorded?
JosephNScott 2 years ago
thats someone's ganny in this vid! :)
iyaypouty 3 years ago
Wow..I was searching for Tommy Tedesco..who I met at MIT Hollywwod and found this..He told us at that school that he did a lot of stuff from playing and sleeping on the streets to getting guitar jobs to playing the M*A*S*H theme guitar work..What a man..This band here sounds terrible but Tommys stuff was Gold to me
Sqigiolie 3 years ago
Wow! Rare ftg of The Wrecking Crew playing live at the height of their powers. Put this video in the smithsonian already. Nice to see Jan and Dean, too.
jongreek 3 years ago
What no mention in the title or notes of the headliners, the superb Jan (pre-accident) & Dean? Great as the Wrecking Crew were...C'mon!
DCI7 3 years ago
anyone knonw who is conducting? it's not Billy Strange is it?
cliffworks4321 3 years ago
George Tipton is conducting
IainB1511 3 years ago
does anybody have ANY other clips feat. Tommy Tedesco - or know where I can pick up a copy of his Hot lIcks video?
k1968boy 3 years ago
Wish there were more closeups of Hal Blaine.
ascrodin 3 years ago
Don't give that girl in the yellow dress any more acid ..
spottedliver 4 years ago 10
lol wow lol that made my day,true words and what gets me is that they keep showing her.
samsarman 3 years ago
I've been watching Tommy's Hot Licks video. If anybody had the proper attitude for playing music and making money at it, it was him. R.I.P. Tommy. You were a BAD CAT!
mikecalzone 4 years ago
Ahhh... Hal Blaine. He's the greatest. The REAL Chris Partridge on the PF records. The most amazing drummer of all time.
RizMil 4 years ago 7
wish I could play his old octoplus kit that ludwig made him
sgtpepper1138 3 years ago
If it's of any interest, the bass player in the red sweter that briefly appears at 1:28 is Leon Russell.
IDLERACER 4 years ago
I've watched the Pilot this is from several times with Hal. I think this concert footage was from the Santa Monica Civic. If it weren't for Jan's accident, the Jan & Dean show would've given The Monkees a run for their money. Elizabeth Montgomery does a cameo (her husband made the pilot) Hal, of course, is just great in it.
marniealan 4 years ago 2
Classic!
Does a video of the entire concert exist?
Phil
BB45s 4 years ago
I knew Tommy Tedesco when he was a live. My father put his alarm in his house in Grand Island. My parents would take me over to his house and go swimming a few times. My parents even went out to dinner with him a few times. I knew him for a few years and he died when I was about 6 years old.
Undertaker415 4 years ago
wow cool to see Hal in action!
jeffkahl 4 years ago 3
the musicians and Hal are the stars here..like what a joke,jan..or is it dean..is actually reading the Lyrics in a major performance (probably their biggest Live date?) for a cover song by the beatles!!!! wow..lame.
freqazoidiac 4 years ago 3
Clubagogo1234: H.BLAINE!. One of the best drummer in DRUM HISTORY. He recorded for ALL BIG GROUPS AND SINGERS. You must be hear he in you L.P. "DRUM A GO GO". Still, I have this L.P. in Argentina. As memorabilia: When Charlie Watts from Stones, went first time to L.A. the first wish was TO KNOW TO THE BIG HAL BLAINE. My best regard to Hall. Willy drumm, sax, from Argentina.
clubagogo1234 4 years ago
tommy tedesco was mainly a studio musician, he played on 5th dimension albums and partridge family and many others. i am from the same town as him niagara falls.
gymer15 4 years ago
could somebody find green monster by hal blaine
boheimianrhapsody23 4 years ago
Jan & Dean TV pilot. Hal as "Clubber".
Knugabug 4 years ago 2
Tommy Tedesco videos seem to be even harder!
ricaard 4 years ago 2
yeah - this the only one on here..theres on on a Fernwood Tonight clip somewhere
k1968boy 3 years ago
thanks! I'll go look...
ricaard 3 years ago
Hal Blaine videos are hard to find. Thank you.
illusionaryhaste 4 years ago 2
Thank you!!
GFY1954 4 years ago