Carol Kaye - Proof that an old woman With Arthritis can kick your arse on the bass

[keefbaker]

As title:

[JapanAxe]

Yep, I'll take that.

[Twincam]

Hmmm Carol Kaye not sure about her yes she could kick my ass on bass and a great player. Dislike her personality a bit.
I don't know why as I started off liking her and thought she was cool and had some great bass lines and have really enjoyed reading or watching documentaries about her. I respect what she has done but she grates on me.

[keefbaker]

I know what you're saying. She has very specific ideas on how things should be done that won't fit right with everyone.

[Lw.]

Slow news day?

[discreet]

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I respect what she has done but she grates on me.
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She has very specific ideas on how things should be done that won't fit right with everyone.
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+1

[discreet]

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Did she bot take credit for Jamerson's work on something as well?
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Not deliberately, I think. She did play on an awful lot of hit songs over a very short period of time.

[timmo]

I guess when you play on 10,000 records your memory could become hazy about which ones.

[BassTractor]

Agreed. One can simply not remember it all, and one can feel a certain closeness to certain songs, and erroneously think the closeness is from having played on it.
I don't believe at all that she does this deliberately.

Me, I'm on probably 4 to 6 songs on a certain recording, and [b]nobody[/b] knows who played exactly what. Even listening carefully to style, we could not find it out at all.
Again and again it was a case of: "this could be A or B, but thinking about it, C also plays like this sometimes".

[blue]

A true pioneer. We can all learn something from her.

Blue

[mr zed]

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A true pensioner. We can all learn something from her.

Blue
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Fixed

[paul_5]

Carl Kaye's books taught me more than anybody else's. I'm grateful for her taking the time to write them.

I'd quite happily let her kick my arse - hell, I'd lend her my shoes!

Edited February 20, 2016 by paul_5

[miles'tone]

I've learnt a shed load from her method books. I love her.

[oldbass]

Agree about her irritating personality but I kinda like the idea of who she is..a fully rounded professional electric bassplayer which I most definitely am not and never will be.
I love to think about the stuff she has played on...all those 70's Lalo Schifrin TV cop themes, films and the rest etc...she was/is top class and was around at the right time.