The Wrecking Crew! Page #4

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And listened to some of

the people that were doing this,

and the rock groups, and I got

so I could play that stuff

better than they could.

The very first call

I had ever had at Disney,

we got there a quarter to 12:00,

and all the blue blazers

were leaving.

And we're all sitting there,

and he makes a little speech

about, "Ladies and gentlemen,

we brought you in here

because in this particular film,

we're gonna do a little...

Some of your...

- your rock and roll music."

- "Your rock and roll music"?

"It is this"... Yeah.

"There's a little scene here..."

- It always happens to me.

- "...and we're gonna show it

to you," And it was

a quick, little scene,

so he says, "Now, we have

all the music for you.

It's there in front of you.

And we're gonna do this to what

we call a 'click track.'"

Like, we didn't know

anything was going on.

"We're gonna run

the click very slow

so that you can all learn,

study, and memorize this music."

And then he said, "Mary Anne,

play the click much slower."

Well, she accidentally hit it,

and the minute

we heard eight clicks,

ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-

ding-ding-ding, we're in.

And we play this thing

front to back.

And when we finished,

this guy said,

"How in the...

man, you did it perfect.

- I wish we'd have made that."

- "Made it."

"How in the world

could you do that?"

And Tommy said, "We practice

a lot during the day."

It was perfect, 'cause they...

they thought you were

a complete idiot.

I mean, it was unbelievable.

Most of the music

and the money...

I was about to say... It was

a Freudian slip, but true...

came out of the Brill building

in New York.

It was New York-based,

New York writers,

New York singers,

New York musicians.

The music business was

in New York city,

period, at that time.

Rolling master "A."

Master "A," take one.

Here we go, rolling.

Say, Chess Records

back in Cincinnati.

But there were only maybe

one guitar player,

one bass player,

one piano player,

so it could almost get held up

by those one or two guys.

Well, they could come

to Los Angeles,

and they... It wouldn't

matter if they could call

a matter of 10 or 12

different guitar players,

all of them would be

equally as good

to do what they wanted done,

plus we had more studios

out here.

A lot of the musicians

that were back east,

and in Nashville,

a lot of 'em came out here

to seek their fame and fortune.

This was

an untapped place for...

for new artists to record too.

Lee Hazlewood told me

he went back to New York

to do a session,

and he just kind of walked

over to the guitar player,

and said,

"Hey, could you play me

this little thing?"

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