Beach Boys Backing Tracks: putting the pieces together
Hi, this is my first blog entry on my new Blog. I plan to write on music I love. Hope you enjoy it. On Which Album did the Beach Boys start using the Wrecking Crew, and when did they go back to playing on their albums themselves? The simple answer would be that they started regularly using the Wrecking Crew on 1965′'s Today and started playing for themselves again on 1967’s Smiley Smile . But with the Beach Boys nothing is ever that simple, actually. They started using session players earlier than 1965 and they continued to use the Wrecking Crew sometimes after 1967; while in the 65–66 period, the Beach Boys continued to play on some of their records. Also there were members of the Beach Boys touring band in the late sixties and seventies who were de facto members of the band but not official who also played on their records alongside the official share-holding members. Which must have seemed pretty n...