Mike Post talking about the Wrecking Crew

[@jamescox5626]

I worked with Mike when he was on the “Mac Davis Show”. He was a great guy and also a producer of the show. My favorite theme song , Rockford.

[@emeyer6963]

So many great TV themes but like you Rockford is my favorite

[@MurrayJoe]

Hill Street Blues theme is my favourite.

[@MomLAU]

"Law & Order" for me (that includes all the spinoff versions as well as the original). I remember the Mac Davis show and I didn't know Mike Post was involved! Then again, he's been involved in a lot, lot, LOT of things, so I'm not too surprised.

[@craigphillips6308]

Mike also was the producer on the classic Mason Williams song, Classical Gas.

[@stephengriffin9992]

I could listen to Mike Post talk all day! Oh to be a fly on the wall in the studio when Mike got Larry Carlton to record that signature guitar break on the Hill Street Blues theme tune!

[@AngelaGrace2]

Love the Hill Street Blues theme song and Larry Carlton, but didn't know that was him. I was in high school then. Thanks for the education.

[@jamescox5626]

Do you know if Larry was the guitarist on Rockford ?

[@stephengriffin9992]

@@jamescox5626 Not quite sure about that but I don’t hear that Larry Carlton signature guitar sound in the Rockford Files. If you find out please let me know. Thanks 🙏

[@jamescox5626]

@@stephengriffin9992 I remember hearing Mike say once that he always used the same guitarist but I didn’t remember the name.

[@Keninoz1]

A great insight to the philosophy of the Wrecking Crew :)

[@Thejazzfan66]

Thanks,Mike for the music you made. Your tv show themes were the soundtrack of my youth.

[@davidlowe8332]

Can’t get enough stories. Thanks!

[@NesconProductions]

Such important pieces of musical history too long ignored. Well said by Mr. Post! Thank you to Mr. Tedesco honoring your father's (and all the other Wrecking Crew members) legacy! Popular music wouldn't have been the same without them . PS: The Wrecking Crew movie was quite the eye opener 😳as summed up well by Mike Post's commentary..

[@jamescox5626]

Years ago I was the Associate director on the very last Steve Allen Show. We had a full orchestra. I was sitting on an audience chair as they were setting up. I overheard Tommy Tedesco telling another band member about all the money he was making. Apparently the day before he did two sessions and made $750. He was worth every penny.

[@artemisXsidecross]

A good studio musician is a 'problem solver' with the meter running. ✌

[@johncopeland3826]

If like Mike Post you write a piece of music and you show the charts to the musicians whom you have employed to play them to your strict instructions and they precisely do that after one or two run throughs ,then that in my book is perfection ! That's what the Wrecking Crew were capable of ... Oh to have been involved in the recording process on some of those sessions ! It must be a 'tell your grandkids moment .'

[@Sawlon]

Loved it! Thank you!

[@Curlysblues]

Mike Post speaks ...

[@johnsworldofvideopoker]

The GREATEST EVER!!!🙌🙌🌎🍎

[@alanoneill3065]

A friend of mine is a golf caddy at top Scottish courser..he says Mike is a great guy

[@edwardanthony7283]

They were the greatest but no one knows about them!

[@christophergolas9930]

I know about them! And I just bought the DVD of the docu-movie about the Funk Brothers at Motown; looking forward to watching that next. Muscle Shoals on deck. I wonder if there's a docu-movie about Owen Bradley and the Nashville Sound?

[@dirgesinthedark5637]

True THAT!

[@danielmesery2904]

And the music to back it up👍🎸➡️☮️🌍

[@allenhuffman]

Wow. I have no idea he was part of that.

[@Mr.Bassman]

what is the music at the beginning of this clip please?

[@pamr4040]

♥

[@danielmesery2904]

That's 4 sure

[@blueoctgal]

Carol Kaye???

[@tommaloney3938]

I wonder who he was on the road with?

[@jamescox5626]

I think that he played twelve string on the Sonny and Cher records, maybe them.

[@MomLAU]

​​​​I saw them live when I was a kid! I wonder if he was with them at the Muny in St. Louis in about '71? The opening act was a comedian; I think it was David Brenner, but I'm not sure. One funny thing I remember from that show: before it started, we could see the instruments onstage. One bass drum had "SONNY" on it and the other had "CHER"-- so 8-year-old me wondered if we would actually see Sonny and Cher play the drums! (even though I'd never seen either of them do so)

[@tmarielbs]

Louie Shelton

[@karlwho1]

Jim Gordon.

[@9UaYXxB]

With all due respect, who gives a rat's fuck about theme music for television shows? I get that these guys were 'ringers' who could bring a lot of on-the-spot creativity to recording sessions, and I for one enjoyed the music of Steely Dan as much as anyone (and they of course relied on session musicians exhaustively). But there is something both mercenary and soul-less in raving on and on about your god-damned bankability. I like musicians , and value musicians, who have SOMETHING to SAY, and that's a different path entirely than aspiring with all your will to build some 'project's' profitability and profile. Fuck that SHIT. That's EXACTLY why I turned away in utter relief from the narcissistic, preening, and diseased wasteland of popular music and popular art.

[@ignerramos3952]

Hal Blaine, the master❤