Finally saw this on Netflix. Was struck by how those guys were pretty much the last of an era. They were fairly old/experienced professional musicians by the time rock and roll hit and could all read like motherfuckers. This is hyperbolic, but I got the impression from the roundtable discussions that they adopted the genre because they were businessmen first and musicians second. The talk always came back to money and how many songs they could cut in a 6 hour session, except for all of them acknowledging that Brian Wilson was a genius savant.

Saw this recently myself. Liked it a lot. There's a companion CD boxset which I may look at. When my current Patti Smith/Lou Reed obsession wanes a bit.

Just saw it myself this week. I found it a little too Tedesco-centric for obvious reasons.

I find it very hypocritical that people used to give The Monkees tons of shit for not playing the instruments on their records when Sonny and Cher, The Mamas And The Papas, The Byrds, Simon & Garfunkle and The Beach Boys were doing the exact same thing.

I changed the headline because Denny Tedesco is bringing the movie here to Little Rock on Oct. 14. He'll talk about making it at 2PM, then screen it at 7:30PM, with a Q&A afterward. Both events are free. I'm going to have to skip out of choir practice early to catch the whole thing, which is a sacrifice I'm willing to make in this case.

Anyone nearby want to catch it? If so, look me up.