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Carol Kaye
- Thread starter Mustang Surly
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yeah, yeah and yeah.
i really have to buckle down and learn to play with a pick.
i really have to buckle down and learn to play with a pick.
Here's a quote from Variety today, as she declined Hall of Fame invitation, about how she came to play bass:
Kaye used her message Wednesday to relay a quick summary of how she came to specialize in playing bass, despite having first been a jazz guitarist. “Just so you know, as a working Jazz musician (soloing jazz guitar work) in the 1950s working since 1949, I was accidentally asked to record records by producer Bumps Blackwell in 1957, got into recording good music, w/ Sam Cooke, other artists and then accidentally placed on Fender Precision Bass mid 1963 when someone didn’t show…….I never played bass in my life but being an experienced recording guitarist, it was plain to see that 3 bass players hired to play ‘dum-de-dum’ on record dates, wasn’t getting it…..it was easy for me to invent good bass lines…..as a Jazz musician, you invent every note you play……and they used a lot of Jazz musicians (and former big-band experienced musicians on all those rock and pop dates too).”
Kaye used her message Wednesday to relay a quick summary of how she came to specialize in playing bass, despite having first been a jazz guitarist. “Just so you know, as a working Jazz musician (soloing jazz guitar work) in the 1950s working since 1949, I was accidentally asked to record records by producer Bumps Blackwell in 1957, got into recording good music, w/ Sam Cooke, other artists and then accidentally placed on Fender Precision Bass mid 1963 when someone didn’t show…….I never played bass in my life but being an experienced recording guitarist, it was plain to see that 3 bass players hired to play ‘dum-de-dum’ on record dates, wasn’t getting it…..it was easy for me to invent good bass lines…..as a Jazz musician, you invent every note you play……and they used a lot of Jazz musicians (and former big-band experienced musicians on all those rock and pop dates too).”
I love this album.
I knew of it for a long time and would just sit back and enjoy.
I love to find more style of this playing, and this style of jazz.
Steve Shallow is close, but this super funky pick playing that is doing it's own thing is just amazing from Carol!
I knew of it for a long time and would just sit back and enjoy.
I love to find more style of this playing, and this style of jazz.
Steve Shallow is close, but this super funky pick playing that is doing it's own thing is just amazing from Carol!
She played some unusual basses, including a six string with very light strings. No idea what brand it was. Saw it in a story about how the intro baseline on Glen Campbell's "Wichetta Lineman" was crafted by her, using this off-brand 6 string.
I doubt that this photo has anything directly related to her, or her equipment. It looks like a generic stock shot, otherwise to sell this album they should have had her on the cover. As it was put out on a small label, with minimal budget, a proper photo shoot would have cost money.
By a number of accounts, it was a Danelectro 6-string bass(usually tuned E to E, sometimes higher for “baritone” work); although cheaply made, they were a mainstay in studios during the 50’s and 60’s, primarily for Country sessions. They were around for a number of years before Fender issued the Bass VI.
