Seven female bassists who helped shape modern music.

[Count Bassy]

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1459106188' post='3013599']
I subscribed to She Shreds. Received a copy in January - great! Nothing since then. I'm beginning to wonder if they've gone out of business.
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No, it's just that they've run out of female guitarists/bassists.

[Count Bassy]

That was a joke/gentle tease, by the way

[discreet]

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1459106188' post='3013599']
I subscribed to She Shreds. Received a copy in January - great! Nothing since then. I'm beginning to wonder if they've gone out of business.
[/quote]

She Shreds, seashell, by the sea shore. Ha, ha!


I wouldn't even say Carol Kaye was much of a shaper - she was a session musician - but she certainly played on so many really huge hits from so many big artists in the 60s and 70s that she almost single-handedly introduced the signature sound of the pick-played Precision Bass to millions of people... even if they didn't know what it was at the time.

[seashell]

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1459471757' post='3016973']
I wonder how it would go down if someone launched a magazine that advertised the fact that it was specifically dedicated to male musicians?
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They have, it's called Kerrang!

[seashell]

That was a joke by the way.

[Phil Adams]

Carol Kaye for sure, seeing as she shaped a lot of it during her long career. Didn't she invent the bass guitar???

[ahpook]

[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1459499450' post='3017077']
Carol Kaye for sure, seeing as she shaped a lot of it during her long career. Didn't she invent the bass guitar???
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No that was James Jamerson, Carol Kaye just says she did.

[keefbaker]

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1459493495' post='3017027']
That was a joke by the way.
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But not far off. Back in the day when I read it (20+ years back) it was rammed with misogyny so that's a fair argument.

[ahpook]

[quote name='keefbaker' timestamp='1459500350' post='3017093']
"rammed with misogyny"
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Like it.

[ColinB]

Wot? No Suzi Quatro?

[probablypike]

[quote name='keefbaker' timestamp='1459500350' post='3017093']

But not far off. Back in the day when I read it (20+ years back) it was rammed with misogyny so that's a fair argument.
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I haven't read a Kerrang for a good few years now, but a lot of music magazines still are.

[Delberthot]

[quote name='Old Man Riva' timestamp='1459113363' post='3013676']
That's alright then, I'll calm myself down!

(*Mumbles to himself*... "still don't know why Sara Lee wasn't mentioned... bloody lists for this and that and the other etc etc and no Sara Lee...")
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Maybe because of her horrendous chocolate gateauxs?

Edited April 1, 2016 by Delberthot

[scrumpymike]

+1 for Gail Ann Dorsey - her stuff with Bowie was brilliant!