202. WRECKING CREW PIANIST DON RANDI & DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR DENNY TEDESCO REVEAL THE FULL STORY BEHIND THE BEACH BOYS’ STACK-O-TRACKS

For our big Season 2 Finale, Discograffiti’s opted to fudge the timeline just a bit in order to give the proper red-carpet drum-roll gravitas to Season 3, especially since much of the music on The Beach Boys’ “Stack-O-Tracks” was created during this period, by the musicians who’d go on to create 99% of the music created during Season 3. In this very special episode, the inimitable Don Randi and Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco’s son Denny Tedesco—director of the excellent music docs The Wrecking Crew and The Immediate Family—come together for an overview of the black sheep of The Beach Boys’ 1960s catalog, plus a history of the musicians who made most of the music on it…not to mention most of Pet Sounds & Smile.

Here’s just a few of the many things that Don and Denny discuss with Discograffiti in this podcast:

• A sneak peek preview of Denny’s upcoming third music doc;
• The very different original track listing for “Stack-O-Tracks”;
• The origin story and early days of The Wrecking Crew;
• The many reasons for the disbursement of that classic group of great players;
• The resentments of the band members who wound up being replaced on their records by the 1960s session guys;
• If Don really knew that Brian was a genius at the time, without the benefit of hindsight;
• Plus, some background on the ill-fated 1992 Phil Spector session with The Wrecking Crew that never quite came off.

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