Monkees basslines...who did play them...?

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1362857427' post='2005477']
From Ms. Kaye's website:

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=#804000]"Beginning in 1969, she wrote her first of many bass tutoring books, "How To Play The Electric Bass" [b]effectively changing the name of Fender Bass to Electric Bass [/b]and began teaching 100s of Electric Bass students, many of them now famous themselves."[/color][/size][/font]

[size=4][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Funny that - I bought an Electric Bass in Germany in 1963, at least that's what I asked for in the shop and I came out with a Hofner Bass. [/font][/size]
[/quote]
In recording studios in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s, even I think into the 1970s, it was common to refer to the 'electric bass' as the 'Fender bass'. It was even written that way sometimes on album covers, when musicians were credited.

[seashell]

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1362851321' post='2005382']
Little known fact No. 3: Cosy, twee, love song "Last Train To Clarksville" (while they can't get credit for writing it) was an anti-war song.

Clarksville was an army base for kids who ended up in Vietnam, hence the line "And I don't know if I'm ever coming home".
[/quote]

Well I never knew that! I love that song.

[seashell]

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1362852946' post='2005411']


And what proof do you have of this fact?

I heard that they [i]did[/i] in fact, monkey around.......
[/quote]

No they didn't - they were too busy singing to put anybody down!

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1362861994' post='2005592']
No they didn't - they were too busy singing to put anybody down!
[/quote]
... and they were trying to be friendly.

[Big_Stu]

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1362861860' post='2005587']
Well I never knew that! I love that song.
[/quote]

I like the story about "Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title)" too.

[Wylie]

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1362852810' post='2005409']
Carol Kaye played bass on every song EVER.

True fact.
[/quote]

That's right. And she also played on all the others. Just ask her, and she will tell you, in twenty thousand words.

W.

[the boy]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1362862265' post='2005601']

... and they were trying to be friendly.
[/quote]
Always had "something to say" though.

[Cat Burrito]

I emailed [font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]Carol Kaye once & she sent me her autograph and some plectrums. If I play with a pick I always use the Carol Kaye ones, except I mostly play fingerstyle.[/color][/font]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]EDIT - This is Carol Kaye and those are my fingers you are using too![/font][/color]

[Stacker]

I reckon DJ is faking it on that Guild bass: check his left thumb.

[Hutton]

A wee side note: One of my favourite albums which I never tire of listening to is John Mayall's 'USA Union'. Larry Taylor plays great bass on the album. Harvey Mandel also plays some very tasty guitar.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsvb80hPvUM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsvb80hPvUM[/url]

Edited March 10, 2013 by Hutton

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1362873250' post='2005790']
Always had "something to say" though.
[/quote]
Typical of the young generation.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Hutton' timestamp='1362906103' post='2005906']
A wee side note: One of my favourite albums which I never tire of listening to is John Mayall's 'USA Union'. Larry Taylor plays great bass on the album. Freddie Robinson also plays some very tasty guitar.
[/quote]
I really like that album too.

[evilLordJuju]

[quote name='Stacker' timestamp='1362905074' post='2005900']
I reckon DJ is faking it on that Guild bass: check his left thumb.
[/quote]
that's exactly how I play....

[miles'tone]

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1362857427' post='2005477']
From Ms. Kaye's website:

[font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"][color="#804000"]"Beginning in 1969, she wrote her first of many bass tutoring books, "How To Play The Electric Bass" [b]effectively changing the name of Fender Bass to Electric Bass [/b]and began teaching 100s of Electric Bass students, many of them now famous themselves."[/color][/size][/font]

[size=4][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]Funny that - I bought an Electric Bass in Germany in 1963, at least that's what I asked for in the shop and I came out with a Hofner Bass. [/font][/size]
[/quote]

Paul? Is that you?

[Jazzneck]

Do you want to know a secret?

[icastle]

I always thought it was the keyboard player (something Tork?) or is this another one of those things that I should have known... but didn't?

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1364518096' post='2027735']
I always thought it was the keyboard player (something Tork?) or is this another one of those things that I should have known... but didn't?
[/quote]
Peter Tork was offically the bassist but all the earlier material was LA session players.

[Kiwi]

[quote name='keeponehandloose' timestamp='1362846634' post='2005306']
and Mike Nesmiths mum invented Tipex, making a fortune!
[/quote]
Liquid paper, not Tippex

[url="http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/liquid_paper.htm"]http://inventors.abo...iquid_paper.htm[/url]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1364543527' post='2027832']
Peter Tork was offically the bassist but all the earlier material was LA session players.
[/quote]
Peter Tork was pretty gifted given how many instruments he could play.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1364544655' post='2027850']
Liquid paper, not Tippex

[url="http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/liquid_paper.htm"]http://inventors.abo...iquid_paper.htm[/url]
[/quote]

Already done - see post #16:

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1362850936' post='2005380']
[pedant alert]
Nesmith's mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, invented what became known as Liquid Paper in the early 1950s. Tipp-Ex is a German company dating from 1959 and originally made correction paper not correction liquid. The fortune part is correct. [/pedant alert]
[/quote]

Edited March 29, 2013 by EssentialTension

[merello]

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1362852946' post='2005411']
And what proof do you have of this fact?

I heard that they [i]did[/i] in fact, monkey around.......
[/quote]
Nuts!

[merello]

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1362852810' post='2005409']
Carol Kaye played bass on every song EVER.

True fact.
[/quote]
Just been to my nephew's birthday party and as we started 'Happy Birthday'....out pops this old woman from the kitchen on a white Fender!