Fuck You I'm From Austin Film Talk

It didn't all just Blow Up like the film for me. My mother Peggy Sue would spend Christmas Eve and day out drinking and use the Gaylynn Theater as a babysitter. My sister Martha and I would be dropped off at the movie house - which was amazingly cata-cornered from my grandparents' house on Harrison in Beaumont, Texas . Martha and I would watch the featured film over and over and over until the Gaylynn closed down and the manager Mr. English would lock the door leaving Martha and me out front on the sparkling pavement to wait for mother.  Here's a list of the shows that helped me close out the years and fuel my lifelong passion as a movie fanatic... 1963 Love With the Proper Stranger     1964 Goldfinger      1965 Dr. Zhivago   1966 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly     1967 The Graduate      1968 The Lion in Winter 1970 Love Story   1969 They Shoot Horses Don't They?   1971 A Clockwork Orange    

Last night's entry in my music documentary travels was The Wrecking Crew a 2015 film directed by Danny Tedesco. It took Danny a long time to finish this work of love for his father Tommy and the other Wrecking Crew band members who played on so many popular albums, mostly unacknowledged in the credits and financially. Besides being yet another comment on the smarmy side of the music business, the film is a well put together tribute to those sessions players who created those albums so many of us grew up with. What I took away was just like the work these people did whose love for the music overrode the injustices of low pay and no credit - the music in the film transcends. You can't help but be inspired by the end result...the songs. The documentary pays tribute to the studio musicians that made up the Wrecking Crew - listed here in Wikipedia . Tedesco, Carol Kay, Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, Barney Kessel, Larry Knechtel (later in the band Bread,) Plas Johnson, Mike Melvoin, Don R...