Carol Kaye's string changing method !

[Stick_Player]

What do McCartney and Harrison have to do with anything?

They personally knew Lennon and Starr?

 

[petrus61]

Please see my post from yesterday.....

Ok, you said it first

 

[Willie The Pimp]

She never did break strings in the studio.

I heard a true story from a friend's uncle's nephew that she never went in a studio, all her parts were actually played by Danny Kaye.

 

[mellowinman]

I heard a true story from a friend's uncle's nephew that she never went in a studio, all her parts were actually played by Danny Kaye.

David Gilmour.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

The funniest part of that video is at the very end...

The guy in the Zon booth looking down at the ground thinking "S**t, how the hell am I supposed to follow that??"

The guy in the Zon booth is Michael Manring- if there was anyone in the world who could follow that and even better it, it's him

 

[ZenG]

I referenced McCartney and Harrison as an example of two top stars who were undoubtedly busier than hell at the time.........just like Carol.

and would have experienced just about all the same technical occurrences that C.K. encountered.

La Bella Deep Talkin' Flats have been around since the 50's.......and Motown saw a lot of these.


It wasn't exactly an equipment "wasteland" back then.......at the time regular electric guitar players were all about the strings....and how to change the sound. One of the recurring problems on electric guitars was the problems with the roundwound "G".

A lot of guitarists were doing all kinds of things with their strings at the time .

The bass guitar wasn't ignored either.

 

[lpdeluxe]

Carol Kaye is amazing. Making money from playing at 13! That was a great video a hundred or so pages back. I think she has the authority to talk about her experiences and I personally don't care whether she bought new basses to get new strings or grew 'em on trees.

As I get older (and older...) I appreciate the voices of experience. I started out playing the stuff she hated to do in the studio, but I kept at it. Currently I have a small combo doing standards mostly from the '30s and '40s. It's not about flashy solos -- it's about me and the guitar player combining to sound like a piano and backing up the singers. I would love a couple of lessons from Carol. She may be eccentric...hell, she could be as eccentric as we all are!

 

[Son of Wobble]

I don't have a problem viewing bass guitars as disposable; after all, when I'm embroiled in a gunfight and run out of bullets,
I usually toss the empty gun and snag a new piece off someone I've felled.

 

[ZenG]

She wasn't playing MIA Fender basses......she was playing the ones made in Malaysia........


Seriously.......Carol has made an imprint on many people's lives musically...whether they were aware of it or not.........she deserves a lot of cred for achieving so much in her time.......

 

[thunderstation]

1968 Fender price list shows a sunburst Precision list price of $239.50. Case extra. American-made, of course.
You could buy 7.51 Fender basses for $1800 in 1968!

I bought a walnut /maple neck Fender precision in 1973 for $233.00 - I still own it-

 

[codycon96]

I bought a walnut /maple neck Fender precision in 1973 for $233.00 - I still own it-

Good for you, man!

 

[zontar]

I hate changing strings, and they stay on my bass a long time--but I don't gig & I'm not in a band that records, I'm not a studio musician--so they last a while.
But the method here would be convenient in avoiding string changes, but expensive--and no guarantee the strings would be fresh & not gummed up by lots of people playing it in the store.
(My SR500F did come out of the back--still packed in the box--they had no fretless basses out front--so they took it out of the back. I was the first person to play it since it left the factory.--Strings were fresh)

 

[ZenG]

On her website at the bottom of the page it states that she owns more than one bass at the moment.

Her Ibby has Thomastik-Infeld strings......

I poke fun from time to time but in all deadly seriousness she is one of my my bass-playing idols........

 

[the harp unstrung]

she knows more about bass playing and hit records than all of you put together.

...than all of us put together...

 

[JimmyM]

On her website at the bottom of the page it states that she owns more than one bass at the moment.

Her Ibby has Thomastik-Infeld strings......

Nope, the other instrument listed is a guitar.

 

[ZenG]

You're right......my bad.......was reading too fast and not paying attention.....

 

[forrestgump]

Oh sweet Jesus not one of YOU again.

C'mon, I was pulling yer chain.

 

[lpdeluxe]

Here's a link to a clip on Youtube called "The Wrecking Crew -- the Making of Good Vibrations" where Brian Wilson says that Carol Kaye's bass playing on the song was awesome. I think that settles the issue.

 

[rolandm]

I don't think there was an issue as to whether or not Brian Wilson thought her playing on Good Vibrations was awesome or not.

 

[lpdeluxe]

Several have hinted that she was not the bass player.