23 skidoo [bonus tracks]

[Bekah]

So you are suggesting (or not) that Coy is a "ghost musician" for the  
Boards and actually plays with them as an associate,  like the  
Wrecking Crew?   Just wondering.

Bekah


On Oct 10, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> On Oct 10, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
> 	GREAT connection, Robin...thanks
>
> Think of these connections: The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Terry  
> Melcher, Charles Manson, Phil Spector.
>
> Don't forget this connection:
>
> Here's the Byrds "Milestones" and "Flower Bomb Song" clips:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftz73-U488
>
> "Miles Tones"?
>
> Miles Re-Appears as the psychic Chum of Chance.
>
> The Byrds co-joined Coltrane and the Beatles in 8 Miles High:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGbokn4r38o&feature=fvw
>
> 	They entered the transition tunnel to the eastbound Santa
> 	Monic Freeway, where the radio, which had been playing the
> 	Byrds' "Eight Miles High," lost the signal. Doc kept singing it to
> 	himself, and when they emerged and the sound came back, he
> 	was no more than a half a bar off.
>
> The Paranoids Greatest Hit:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CMUXouqx8o&feature=related
>
> Terry Melcher's Greatest Hits:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_boQNlUEsdk&feature=fvw
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JtygEMwlks&NR=1
>
> Terry Melcher thought the Byrds should cover "It's All Over Now,  
> Baby Blue":
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W27oYDpMykQ
>
> Played once on KRLA, then pulled.
>
> As regards the inherent vice of rock and roll in L.A. in the  
> sixties, remember that the backing track for the Byrds' version of  
> Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man was performed by the "Wrecking Crew":
>
> 	The Wrecking Crew was a nickname coined by the drummer
> 	Hal Blaine after the fact for a group of session musicians in Los
> 	Angeles, California, who earned wide acclaim in the 1960s.
> 	They backed dozens of popular singers, and were one of the
> 	most successful "groups" of studio musicians in music history.
>
> 	The Wrecking Crew's members typically had backgrounds in
> 	jazz or classical music, but were highly versatile. The talents of
> 	this group of 'first call' players were used on almost every style
> 	of recording, including television theme songs, film scores,
> 	advertising jingles and almost every genre of American popular
> 	music, from The Monkees to Bing Crosby. Notable artists
> 	employing the Wrecking Crew's talents included Bobby Vee,
> 	The Partridge Family, The Mamas & the Papas, The
> 	Carpenters, John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel.
>
> 	The figures most often associated with the Wrecking Crew are
> 	producer Phil Spector (who used the Crew to create his
> 	trademark "Wall of Sound"), and Beach Boys leader Brian
> 	Wilson, who used the Crew's talents on many of his mid-60s
> 	productions including the songs "Good Vibrations" and
> 	"California Girls" and the acclaimed album Pet Sounds.
>
> 	Members of the Wrecking Crew played on the first Byrds single
> 	recording, Mr. Tambourine Man, because Columbia didn't trust
> 	the skills of Byrd musicians except for Roger McGuinn. On the
> 	basis of the success of the single, further recordings of the
> 	Byrds were conditional on the success of the single.
> 	Subsequently, all the Byrds played on their subsequent
> 	recordings. Spector used the Wrecking Crew on fifth Leonard
> 	Cohenfifth album, Death of a Ladies' Man.
>
> 	The Wrecking Crew were inducted into the Musicians Hall Of
> 	Fame on November 26, 2007.
> 	http://www.musicianshalloffame.com
>
> Phil Spector's Greatest hit:
>
> http://diekopfhoerer.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/lana_clarkson.jpg
>
>>
>> --- On Fri, 10/9/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>>> Subject: Re: 23 skidoo [bonus tracks]
>>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>> Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 1:37 PM
>>> On Oct 9, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Michael
>>> Bailey wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>       "Oh,"said Miles, stopping. "You hate me too."	
>>>>>> 	Eyes bright through his bangs.
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GeneClarkImg.jpg
>>>
>>>   	 It was late at night, when David brought Jim and Gene to	
>>> 	the World Pacific studio. Dickson asked them to sing a few
>>> 	songs.
>>>
>>> 	He felt their vocal sound was worth his time, since vocal	
>>> 	blend was the most difficult achievement for a group. Their 	
>>> 	pseudo English accents did cause him to wonder about 	
>>> 	their motivation.
>>>
>>>    	Jim and David begged Dickson to go with them to a movie
>>> 	they had seen, "A Hard Days Night." He finally understood
>>> 	the accents. The lads were excited about the movie.
>>>
>>> http://growingbolder.com/obj/print.php?objId=178736
>
>>> 	"It's lovely," said Oedipa, "but why do you sing with an
>>> 	English accent when you don't talk that way?"
>>>
>>> 	"It's this group I'm in," Miles explained, "the Paranoids.
>>> 	We're new yet. Our manager says we should sing like that.
>>> 	We watch English movies a lot, for the accent."
>
>

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