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The Wrecking Crew is missing it's thunder today as Hal Blaine passed away.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/cel...rock-hall-of-fame-member-dies-at-90/ar-BBUEoK
His 90th birthday was celebrated with some of the best drummers in the world.
Blaine played on thousands of recordings, some of the most notable being for the Beach Boys, the Monkees and filling in at Monterrey Pop for artists that didn't normally have a drummer like the Mamas and the Papas.
Many of those Monterrey Pop bands became the end of the Crew's dynasty when they had capable musicians of their own but Blaine continued working in television on shows like the Brady Bunch and just kept going.
Hal Blaine created some of the most iconic drum lines of the rock era and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame as a Sideman in 2000.
You may recognize him best from the Ronettes' Be My Baby or maybe Good Vibrations...Hal was in the studio for many of the classic Phil Spector sessions He learned to play from people who taught him Gene Krupa and other swing/big band legends.
It was Blaine that coined the name Wrecking Crew when somebody said these kids in jeans and t-shirts are gonna wreck everything, but instead they created the greatest music of the 1960 and became the establishment themselves.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/cel...rock-hall-of-fame-member-dies-at-90/ar-BBUEoK
His 90th birthday was celebrated with some of the best drummers in the world.
Blaine played on thousands of recordings, some of the most notable being for the Beach Boys, the Monkees and filling in at Monterrey Pop for artists that didn't normally have a drummer like the Mamas and the Papas.
Many of those Monterrey Pop bands became the end of the Crew's dynasty when they had capable musicians of their own but Blaine continued working in television on shows like the Brady Bunch and just kept going.
Hal Blaine created some of the most iconic drum lines of the rock era and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame as a Sideman in 2000.
You may recognize him best from the Ronettes' Be My Baby or maybe Good Vibrations...Hal was in the studio for many of the classic Phil Spector sessions He learned to play from people who taught him Gene Krupa and other swing/big band legends.
It was Blaine that coined the name Wrecking Crew when somebody said these kids in jeans and t-shirts are gonna wreck everything, but instead they created the greatest music of the 1960 and became the establishment themselves.
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