Del Casher

Event: RSD DROPS 2021 - July 17Release Date: 7/17/2021Format: LPLabel: ORG MusicQuantity: 1000Release type: RSD Drops 2021 Jul 17th Del Casher may not be a household name, but you’ve undoubtedly heard his music. As a member of the famous Wrecking Crew, he’s played on many hundreds of recordings that have provided the soundtrack to our lives. He played on the Lawrence Welk Show, recorded Frank Zappa’s first demo, backed Elvis Presley, and built guitars with Les Paul. His many inventions include the Wah-Wah pedal and the Ecco-Fonic, influencing the development of electric guitar playing. In 1976, Casher was commissioned to write and record a soundtrack for Italian Stallion, a re-branding of the 1970 softcore porn film "The Party at Kitty and Stud’s”, which saw Sylvester Stallone's first on-screen appearance. While even Stallone called the film “horrendous”, the soundtrack for Italian Stallion stands on its own as a musical masterpiece. Casher recruited some of the best musicians around,