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Beach Boys - Brian Wilson On Bass


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Great, thanks for posting. He was a very underrated bass player in my opinion. An inspiration to McCartney y'know, along with Jamerson. Wilson used session players later in the BBs career, notably Carol Kaye on Good Vibrations. I think so anyway. I may have dreamt it and can't be bothered to Google it. :crazy:

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1452336447' post='2948940']
Ah, but did you say you were loving it, with a big grin?
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It does make me grin ...

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[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/266095-beach-boys-the-lost-concert-1964"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/266095-beach-boys-the-lost-concert-1964[/url]

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[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1452337282' post='2948958']
[url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%26_Mercy_(film"]https://en.wikipedia...%26_Mercy_(film[/url])
This was Mark Kermode's video of the week on this week's review.
And it was Carole Kaye on some of the later Beach Boys tracks - IIRC Good Vibrations had three bass tracks layered on it.
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Fixed link ...

[url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%26_Mercy_(film)"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%26_Mercy_(film)[/url]

I need to see that.

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1452297360' post='2948769']
Great, thanks for posting. He was a very underrated bass player in my opinion. An inspiration to McCartney y'know, along with Jamerson. Wilson used session players later in the BBs career, notably Carol Kaye on Good Vibrations. I think so anyway. I may have dreamt it and can't be bothered to Google it. :crazy:
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Carol actually came up with the " Good Vibrations" bass line.

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1452297360' post='2948769']
Great, thanks for posting. He was a very underrated bass player in my opinion. An inspiration to McCartney y'know, along with Jamerson. Wilson used session players later in the BBs career, notably Carol Kaye on Good Vibrations. I think so anyway. I may have dreamt it and can't be bothered to Google it. :crazy:
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[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1452337282' post='2948958']
[url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%26_Mercy_(film"]https://en.wikipedia...%26_Mercy_(film[/url])
This was Mark Kermode's video of the week on this week's review.
And it was Carole Kaye on some of the later Beach Boys tracks - IIRC Good Vibrations had three bass tracks layered on it.
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Interesting comments re CK. I've just seen a clip of the Beach Boys doing Good Vibrations. There are 2 bass players you see one an upright player, with a possible third. The main 2 definitely aren't Carol kaye. While Carol Never dressed girly, the third doesn't really look like her either. You only get a view from side slightly behind. It's a clip posted directly to Facebook, so I can't work out how to post a link to it here.

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[quote name='natjag' timestamp='1458928592' post='3012232']


Interesting comments re CK. I've just seen a clip of the Beach Boys doing Good Vibrations. There are 2 bass players you see one an upright player, with a possible third. The main 2 definitely aren't Carol kaye. While Carol Never dressed girly, the third doesn't really look like her either. You only get a view from side slightly behind. It's a clip posted directly to Facebook, so I can't work out how to post a link to it here.
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Is it this?

http://youtu.be/d8rd53WuojE

The Fender bass player looks very much like Carl Wilson.

Carol Kaye may well have been on a Bass VI but couldn't see her in the clip.

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[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1458930613' post='3012256']
Is it this?

[media]http://youtu.be/d8rd53WuojE[/media]

The Fender bass player looks very much like Carl Wilson.

Carol Kaye may well have been on a Bass VI but couldn't see her in the clip.
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that is the clip.

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In the Wrecking Crew video I think they claimed Carol on a Fender and two other bassists all played the same licks on the recording of Good Vibrations.IIRC there was a double bass and I believe a Danelecto.I can't check those details right now because I lent the DVD to a friend and he still has it.Anyone else remember that or have access to the DVD to check it out?

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[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1458940335' post='3012354']
I read that she's claiming to have played some of the Motown baselines that everyone previously assumed were, or were credited to, Jameson.
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yes, she does claim to play on some motown tracks. I think I may start a separate thread to discuss this. I'm sure it's been discussed here somewhere, but a search doesn't show an obvious thread. I think it's possible and probably she did play on many tracks. Because of the Jameson book we assume it is him on the tracks mentioned. I'm open to the suggestion that it's not fully researched. There are still many questionable tracks and claims of hers.

I always thought it was her on The Beach Boys track here until I saw the clip. There are enough comments under mine which suggest she was on the clip and either out of shot, or the musicians were there miming for the cameras.

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