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Post by James on Dec 29, 2017 19:55:44 GMT
Bringing this topic back to life for just a second. I just got done watching Hired Guns on Netflix. Pretty much in the same vein as the Wrecking Crew documentary but a little bit more contemporary. A lot of guys from the 70s but also a lot from today. They had a brief interview with Bob Ezrin; he commented about how a lot of the classic rock acts didn’t create music just within the band but he never really said anything more than that. Definitely worth a watch.
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Post by Buck on Dec 29, 2017 20:11:26 GMT
Bringing this topic back to life for just a second. I just got done watching Hired Guns on Netflix. Pretty much in the same vein as the Wrecking Crew documentary but a little bit more contemporary. A lot of guys from the 70s but also a lot from today. They had a brief interview with Bob Ezrin; he commented about how a lot of the classic rock acts didn’t create music just within the band but he never really said anything more than that. Definitely worth a watch. Ha, BOC was too dumb to hire session guys on our records. We did have the occasional sax or harmonica player, but no ringers for the boys.
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Post by James on Dec 29, 2017 21:31:53 GMT
You guys were the ringers. Rudy Sarzo was interviewed extensively on this doc as well.
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Post by sirrastus on Dec 30, 2017 5:05:16 GMT
Larry Fast and of course Randy Jackson .Overall I don't think I ever heard of anyone "ghosting".
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Post by sirrastus on Dec 30, 2017 5:06:00 GMT
The doc about back up singers is great too.
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Post by zach on Dec 31, 2017 15:42:28 GMT
Bringing this topic back to life for just a second. I just got done watching Hired Guns on Netflix. Pretty much in the same vein as the Wrecking Crew documentary but a little bit more contemporary. A lot of guys from the 70s but also a lot from today. They had a brief interview with Bob Ezrin; he commented about how a lot of the classic rock acts didn’t create music just within the band but he never really said anything more than that. Definitely worth a watch. Ha, BOC was too dumb to hire session guys on our records. We did have the occasional sax or harmonica player, but no ringers for the boys. Except for Club Ninja?
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Post by Rich on Jan 2, 2018 4:36:40 GMT
Watching Hired Guns right now. Really good and perfect timing as it negative degrees out and cabin fever quickly setting in. Thanks James!
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Post by Buck on Jan 2, 2018 12:27:47 GMT
Ha, BOC was too dumb to hire session guys on our records. We did have the occasional sax or harmonica player, but no ringers for the boys. Except for Club Ninja? Yeah, I stand corrected. The Club Ninja band was more like the band Sandy Pearlman and Albert had assembled for Imaginos. I was thinking primarily about the earlier records, and the later ones.
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Post by James on Jan 2, 2018 18:01:44 GMT
Watching Hired Guns right now. Really good and perfect timing as it negative degrees out and cabin fever quickly setting in. Thanks James! Glad you’re enjoying it!
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Post by zach on Jan 7, 2018 13:56:06 GMT
Yeah, I stand corrected. The Club Ninja band was more like the band Sandy Pearlman and Albert had assembled for Imaginos. I was thinking primarily about the earlier records, and the later ones. I was curious because I've heard varying accounts of how much of the performances on the Club Ninja album were done by outside musicians. For instance, Joe Bouchard once claimed an entire side of the LP was Phil Grande playing the guitar leads (a claim I find a little dubious). But Pearlman had claimed that it was mostly you on not only Club Ninja but Imaginos as well.
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Post by Buck on Jan 8, 2018 1:56:42 GMT
Phil Grande has a distinctive style, you can hear the parts on Ninja he's playing. I did the primary leads, unlike Imaginos, where Sandy chose some of the other players' performances he'd recorded previously over the stuff I did at the end of recording. But that was Sandy's record, not ours, or even Albert's, in the end.
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Post by bil on Jan 8, 2018 7:06:33 GMT
Crap...I seen BOC a few times on the Club Ninja tour....totally awesome and I never seen this Phil Grande guy...just saying...
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Post by zach on Jan 8, 2018 8:35:13 GMT
Crap...I seen BOC a few times on the Club Ninja tour....totally awesome and I never seen this Phil Grande guy...just saying... According to Martin Popoff's Agents of Fortune book, Phil Grande was a session man who played the rhythm guitar parts Eric would have normally played and a few leads on the Club Ninja album (if I had to guess I'd say the solos at the end of White Flags and the leads on the third verse of Dancing In The Ruins) . He didn't tour with the band at any point.
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Post by luxexterior on Jan 8, 2018 9:17:21 GMT
Crap...I seen BOC a few times on the Club Ninja tour....totally awesome and I never seen this Phil Grande guy...just saying... Yeah I saw them three times on the Club Ninja tour & the band (including Tommy Zvoncheck on keyboards) were tighter than tight thing, great shows. The stand out song though at all of these gigs was Wings of Mercury which unfortunately isn't on the album. It is/was on the Broadcast CD as part of the 2012 box set, shame it didn't make the a studio album.
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Post by Buck on Jan 9, 2018 0:11:49 GMT
Phil Grande or Thommy Price never toured with BOC, only did the basic tracks recordings.
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