Carol is a female icon but you hardly ever hear about her. She climbed the Mt. Everest of the male dominated music business with guts, persistency and pure talent. A legend.
It is a FACT that Carol Kaye did the studio bass session on the Stevie Wonder hit I was Made to Love Her. James Jamerson was not available and Motown Berry Gordy had Carol do the session and refused to give her the credit. I saw the chart and the session record and date. What? Carol needed to make up a story like that?
@@charlesmcgehee3227 The late, great Max Bennett told me a few years ago before he passed Kaye had a tendency to lie about herself and others. She said something about him I don't recall but tone was rather angry -- something about teaching him or being a teacher of his when Max was well established having made his name on Peggy Lee's "Fever," then Joni Mitchell, Tom Scott's LA Express and his own band of seriously great cats out of LA. But Kaye's FB page has gone absent of late and I'm not sure if she's in particularly great health.
@billkarmetsky4003 I met and spoke to her in the 90's. She could have been angry that not many knew who she was. Not sure. She was a nice lady toward me. I didn't really get to know her though. People are people famous or not.
I am sure glad it was recommended to me on youtube. I've been watching docs on her, Bowie, etc. One is leading to another. It's awesome to have learned of Carol. Now I follow her facebook page. She actually talks to people lol..
I'd like to see Carol visit the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, in Barcelona... And jam with Joan Chamorro, Andrea Motis, Ignasi Terazza & Josep Traver... She has so much to pass on to young musicians all over the world... Thank God for all these very informative videos she has made..
Witchita Lineman... Classic, simple, perfect bassline for an iconic song. Another example of where her playing opens the song, and sets the tone for the entire piece.
Not taking nothing away from Carol, But Brian Wilson did write her bass lines on the Beach Boy songs vs her creating the beat goes on bass line on her own as she did. Music composition always is collaborative and varies widely
It's impossible to get through a day without hearing Carol playing on a song, movie or T.V. soundtract. It would take 10 pages to list her credits. She's a living legend.
I've been playing for a year or so, and have to say that it is VERY, very sad that you have to dig to come across Carol Kaye. Every BASS player who "looks" good is covered, meanwhile, the person that helped put them all on the map is never mentioned by any of the bass teachers I've seen online. Imagine the auto Industry never mentioning Henry Ford.
She turned a an experiment into a career when the bassist didn't show up for the gig she filled the spot and here we are now in 2022 and we are still talking about her great career and skills that brings both guitar and bass guitar...
Played guitar for years prior to a chance encounter with the bass when the scheduled bass player couldn’t make a recording session date. It was love at first note and the lady played a Fender bass from then on.
You kinda just want to get into the initial comment and credit her. To my mind she's the second most important player there. It's a travesty she's not credited. Les Paul paid his respects to her. That much was clear. I love that TH-cam as a community is pushing her up the algorithm and getting her the fame and respect she earned. Luv and Peace. edit: OK Missed that she was in video posting name. Sorry. Big props Chris lentz. Keep keeping on.
Teachers all over the world (literally!) used the books Carol Kaye wrote since the 60s. The surprise I got at the age of 15 when my teacher gave me a score of my favorite band (The Beach Boys) and I went from playing simple boring notes on a staff to being able to play Good Vibrations! Quite a musical treasure.
Carol compliments any style of playing. She's definatly an innovator and a great mentor. If anyone wants to learn bass properly, they should watch some of her videos and interviews. She lays a great foundation to learn from. Thanks for sharing!!
I think Carol is by far my favorite bassist of all time. Not only the multitude of work over the decades, but I always loved her interpretation of a song. Nothing is ever over played like ALOT of bassists do, and that's what made Carol's playing so sought after by so many greats.
Some years back I had the good fortune to take a lesson from Carol. She shared a few tricks and has a load of great stories. You should see her session list! Stunned me to see all of the work she has done. Great lady.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I only became aware of Carol Kaye last year, although it turns out that I had been enjoying her music for over 50 years now. She is a straight up national treasure. If Fender haven't already put her name on a Precision custom bass , it's about damn time they did. 😍
"Listen to this over here!" I'm right with ya, Les. Finest electric bass blues lines I've ever heard. She was driving this song, albeit with very tasteful guitar comping.
Cinco Charms - erm really? Name another bassist who played on hits by The Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Sam Cook (guitar), the Righteous Brothers, Sonny & Cher, Barbara Streisand, Nancy Sinatra, and Lou Rawls among many others. She played on at least 1 early Frank Zappa album and he always was very selective about musicians. Finally, here she is jamming with Les Paul. So yeah “gold standard in the bass world” seems appropriate.
Cinco Charms - ignorant and narrow minded eh? Lol 😝 Madonna is a talentless twat. Carol Kaye was an incredibly prolific studio musician over decades and everything from jazz to R&B to pop music. When you help write and play a bass line for Brian Wilson like “Good Vibrations”, let me know. I’d love to hear it.
@@chipsterb4946 if she, in your mind, is a brilliant bass player, then good for you. I really don't want to offend her work. She was a very good studio player and could read the charts. Ground breaking bassist? No.
Carol Kaye was clearly a bass playing treasure. I think it was an advantage that she came from guitar player to bass; more precision, excellent rhythm, knowledge of chords, everything she does on the bass is more than good, it is excellent.
Rick Smith........Yep, on both. She talks about it; started with guitar and somebody asked her to play bass because they were without a bass player for a session. A lot of musicians begin a certain instrument and switch. I started on trombone as a kid. The teacher made me quit because they needed the school trombone for a kid who could play it in the band (that's what she said). Then accordion years later. Then string bass because the school orchestra needed more members and the teacher told me to learn the bass because I was taller than the other kids. That was 66 years ago. Is life logical? Naahhh. What do you play, Rick Smith?
It can be written either way. My point of view was from the perspective of a bass player. She joined the group called bass players. She came to my side.
Carol played Bass on two tracks in a session I had the Wrecking Crew on. Go to www.therockislandboys.com and click on the Listen button. Hal, Don and Carol played on Walk Along The Beach Tonight and God Bless California. Please post your comments here on the two songs on the site. I'd like some feedback on them.
Dr. Richmann........I listened to the first 8 bars of all of them. That's where you have your chance to get a listener's attention. Some were reminiscent of Beach Boys early music. I've had the opinion that good arrangers make songs as much, maybe more, than composers. What are opinions worth? Sometimes nothing. The headliners/stars get the glory and the biggest money. The top notch musicians are essential. But I'll side with the good arrangers.
Thanks. Yes, good arrangers are essential. Listen to the break on the two cited songs, especially God Bless California and you'll hear Carol play an amazing bass part. The break is amazing on that one.
@@guitarslim56 That's how "taste" works in the arts. Virtuosos are athletes and trainable. Artists just speak to us personally on an interior level where our life associations carry a whole lot of subconscious wiring and internal\emotional sensorial triggers. All this ego about hierarchy of great musicians is silly. Is one flavor "better" than another flavor? Or do our taste buds acquire some tastes later in life or get conditioned into liking healthier stuff to eat if we are adapting? Don't ever surrender your personal tastes to "Market Forces." Especially not in politics!!!!!!!!! Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
Carol Kaye has been one of my main bass influences for the past 40 years. She's the reason I still watch reruns of " The Streets of San Francisco". I had one of her bass teaching books when that show wasn't a rerun.
Greg you are so right. Her musical history is so extensive and the base and guitar licks which contributed to hit after hit. No doubt she is a giant behind the curtains in the music industry.
VERY cool, yes she has been around. Her curriculum is so extensive, and always stood behind that limelight. Shame most don't even know how much work she's done for so many artists, TV shows etc...my hat goes off to her for sure!!!!
She'll pass away unrecognised by "The Industry". It's a terrible shame but that's the way it is. Not enough men will stand up and tell her name. Still, millions of us know who she is. She will not be forgotten.
Her chops came the hard way playing as a white "chick" with mostly black "cats" in the Seattle and Tacoma jazz and r&b scenes around Puget Sound. Both small combo live work and with orchestra. Not much of a studio scene around Seattle back in early 60's and 70's so she made the right move to get steady work and be able to raise her kid. I recommend viewing Wrecking Crew's own IDENTITY ENFORCER Hal Blaine's sniping at Carol Kaye's credentials with a skeptical eye and ear. Blaine doesn't like the fact that Carol Kaye can speak for herself and seek her own day in court with judges independent of the locker room\clubhouse shenanigans and insecure identities of the Triple Scale Wrecking Crew studio elite. Nobody not included in this Golden Rolodex thought these musicians were any kind of hierarchy or merit-based group of instrumental aces. Ironic that Blaine a product of the Catskills and resort hotels along with comedy and burlesque drumming gigs before he started snagging the studio recording gigs for Hollywood could turn out to be an enforcer taking aim at Carol Kaye for being included in the documentary film named THE WRECKING CREW and the follow-up docs and outtakes released by the film director son of Tommy Tedesco, who Blaine concedes was a bona fide Wrecking Crew member, even if the Tedescos didn't like that nickname for its exclusive and bullying sound. Blaine lives down to the sound's identity. As if commercial plasticity is anything any artist wants to be known for anyways. He's the shanda, not muse Carol Kaye! Mitch Ritter\Pardigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
Finally after seeing a many location videos of Carol on YT- someone framed her hands playing- in focus, with decent audio- in a one-off jam such as this. Sure it’s a 12 bar blues in E of the classic Before You Accuse Me, bit it’s ideal to see her chord shapes and style. And as much as Carol loves Ibanez basses, I for one love watching her hands glide along the neck of a Fender bass. Well shot, well lit and an intimate setting with legendary Les Paul. Thx for this.
It's obvious this wonderful lady created many of the bass licks for the recording industry and made a lot of front men famous. Glad these stories are being told. I hope she is hearing the credit now !!
I have been playing guitar for awhile now, and Bass is a strange animal I have yet to let loose. Been watching many videos with bass players, and found this one. Watch Carols hands on this piece and you can see why she is the one everybody wanted on their albums.
Thank You for the reply, and the link. You gotda love Les Paul. I away's thought of him as a tinker than a guitar player. But man can he play. Jaw dropping moments when watching him play. Just great. Thank You again.
The general public doesn't know Carol's name, but they sure have heard her playing. Any one of the hits she played on would be a career high, and she has tons.
The greatest bass player the world has never known! God Bless and keep you always Mz Kaye. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your wonderful talents and all the hits!
Wow! Great vid, great playing. Carol was a hot number in her day! For Les to step aside and let her run with it... Saw Les a few times at Tuesday's. Miss this music.
That's pretty cool! At first, Les Paul looks at her and is like, "Listen to this over here!". Then he keeps looking at her throughout the performance like, "Damn, this woman can PLAY!" And she really could. One of the best bass players ever. And she also rocked the guitar! She was so good.
I watched a video of carol going into a recording Studio in California and they turned her away. (Sad) . She is and always will be one of our greatest musical talents inspiration musician in history. Love to you miss Carol!!❤️❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵➕
If you've heard only THREE songs you've heard Carol's YUUGE contribution to American popular music: "The Beat Goes On" "Good Vibrations". and " Wichita Lineman"!
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Carol NEEDs to be inducted into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame!!!!!
She deserves her own wing.
@@sholland42 I second that!!!!!!
Agreed! Love her. 👍
Nope, she's an electric bassist and they hate us.
Consolation prize: without Carol Kaye there wouldn't BE a rock and roll hall of fame!
Yes she does!!
Carol is a female icon but you hardly ever hear about her. She climbed the Mt. Everest of the male dominated music business with guts, persistency and pure talent. A legend.
It is a FACT that Carol Kaye did the studio bass session on the Stevie Wonder hit I was Made to Love Her. James Jamerson was not available and Motown Berry Gordy had Carol do the session and refused to give her the credit. I saw the chart and the session record and date. What? Carol needed to make up a story like that?
@@charlesmcgehee3227 Hopefully, she got her due credit.
@@charlesmcgehee3227 The late, great Max Bennett told me a few years ago before he passed Kaye had a tendency to lie about herself and others. She said something about him I don't recall but tone was rather angry -- something about teaching him or being a teacher of his when Max was well established having made his name on Peggy Lee's "Fever," then Joni Mitchell, Tom Scott's LA Express and his own band of seriously great cats out of LA. But Kaye's FB page has gone absent of late and I'm not sure if she's in particularly great health.
@billkarmetsky4003 I met and spoke to her in the 90's. She could have been angry that not many knew who she was. Not sure. She was a nice lady toward me. I didn't really get to know her though. People are people famous or not.
Who else got recommended to a Carrol Kaye video and has been on a binge since then
I am sure glad it was recommended to me on youtube. I've been watching docs on her, Bowie, etc. One is leading to another. It's awesome to have learned of Carol. Now I follow her facebook page. She actually talks to people lol..
I'd like to see Carol visit the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, in Barcelona...
And jam with Joan Chamorro, Andrea Motis, Ignasi Terazza & Josep Traver...
She has so much to pass on to young musicians all over the world...
Thank God for all these very informative videos she has made..
Me
Me too.
did you watch "the wrecking crew"?
they should make a movie of carols life. do it hollywood.
Yes....!
Excellent idea.
Lemme know when it's done...
greg romero already made... wrecking crew
greg romero the world needs to know these selfish musicians aren’t the life of music. Miss Kaye is a wonderful musical blessing
I want to be Carol Kaye!
Legends 🔥🙌
All serious musicians know Carol’s contributions to music, she’s the most recorded bassist in history, and her guitar playing is equally good.
Les and Carol OUTSTANDING !
Get Carol into the RR HOF NOW !
I'm so glad she is finally getting some recognition for a lifetime of amazing musical contributions that have shaped so many lives.
Carol is the best! She is a real groove monster! I love her!
Carol should be in ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME. For her talents and various contributions in music and bridging in millions for music industry
Lots of songs would not have reached #1 if it wasn’t for Carol’s signature bass lines.. The BeatGoes On.. Good Vibrations & many many more.
Witchita Lineman... Classic, simple, perfect bassline for an iconic song. Another example of where her playing opens the song, and sets the tone for the entire piece.
Not taking nothing away from Carol, But Brian Wilson did write her bass lines on the Beach Boy songs vs her creating the beat goes on bass line on her own as she did. Music composition always is collaborative and varies widely
It's impossible to get through a day without hearing Carol playing on a song, movie or T.V. soundtract. It would take 10 pages to list her credits. She's a living legend.
10 pages my AZZ,lol. More like 40 pages!! But I know what your saying.
I've been playing for a year or so, and have to say that it is VERY, very sad that you have to dig to come across Carol Kaye. Every BASS player who "looks" good is covered, meanwhile, the person that helped put them all on the map is never mentioned by any of the bass teachers I've seen online. Imagine the auto Industry never mentioning Henry Ford.
Boy... the lost art of rhythm guitar and bass. Watching Carol and the Lou Pallo is inspiring. Lou... the man of a million chords.
A million chords and a shit singing voice.
She turned a an experiment into a career when the bassist didn't show up for the gig she filled the spot and here we are now in 2022 and we are still talking about her great career and skills that brings both guitar and bass guitar...
Wrecking Crew bass player, Carol Kaye. What a history.
A beast of a bass player. And Les Paul, well, enough said.....
Nipstersongs1 the Click player.
Played guitar for years prior to a chance encounter with the bass when the scheduled bass player couldn’t make a recording session date. It was love at first note and the lady played a Fender bass from then on.
She also played the electric12 string guitar on Frank Zappa's first record "Freak Out"
Carol must be one of the greatest musicians and teachers of the twentieth century in popular music.
You kinda just want to get into the initial comment and credit her. To my mind she's the second most important player there. It's a travesty she's not credited.
Les Paul paid his respects to her. That much was clear.
I love that TH-cam as a community is pushing her up the algorithm and getting her the fame and respect she earned.
Luv and Peace.
edit:
OK Missed that she was in video posting name.
Sorry.
Big props Chris lentz.
Keep keeping on.
Teachers all over the world (literally!) used the books Carol Kaye wrote since the 60s. The surprise I got at the age of 15 when my teacher gave me a score of my favorite band (The Beach Boys) and I went from playing simple boring notes on a staff to being able to play Good Vibrations! Quite a musical treasure.
Carol Kaye is a national treasure, the best ever.
Mr. G. Lespaul.org
Carol Kaye did for music what James Jamerson did for Motown. What a magnificent musician.
Not forgetting all those Motown tracks Carol played on too.
They both played for Motown
Carol compliments any style of playing. She's definatly an innovator and a great mentor. If anyone wants to learn bass properly, they should watch some of her videos and interviews. She lays a great foundation to learn from. Thanks for sharing!!
Carol Kaye deserves a Biopic. This room they are playing at The Iridium in NY, great venue with chairs designed after Salvadore Dali's epic paintings.
" Les Paul, he's the reason we all don't have real jobs." Joe Walsh
I think Carol is by far my favorite bassist of all time. Not only the multitude of work over the decades, but I always loved her interpretation of a song. Nothing is ever over played like ALOT of bassists do, and that's what made Carol's playing so sought after by so many greats.
This woman is as sweet as her music that's why she is an icon. Bless you dear❤
I just love her playing and she is very kind
Carol Kaye is an American treasure. She has given so much for so long.
Some years back I had the good fortune to take a lesson from Carol. She shared a few tricks and has a load of great stories. You should see her session list! Stunned me to see all of the work she has done. Great lady.
I've been playing bass for 40 years, and Carol was one of the best ever!!!
I'm embarrassed to admit that I only became aware of Carol Kaye last year, although it turns out that I had been enjoying her music for over 50 years now. She is a straight up national treasure. If Fender haven't already put her name on a Precision custom bass , it's about damn time they did. 😍
She has to be in Hall of Fame! Her contributions are phenomenal! And the cool thing is is that she can go anywhere and no one knows who she is!
I had never heard of Carol before. In fact today was the first time I had ever seen a video about her. What an amazing woman.
It’s about time these videos of Carol Kaye started circulating. What a joy to watch and listen
Fantastic!! As Carol Kaye once said: ¨If its got balls... It was probably ME..!!!¨
Love Carol. Played bass to the soundtrack of my youth.
Carol Kaye-amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any great record you've ever heard you can be sure Carol kaye had a big part in making it great. The lady legend.
She's plays like a studio musician--perfect tone, perfect timing, and perfect note choices.
Carol Kaye....Musician....period.
My God!! This is awesome, the bass playing is the best!
"Listen to this over here!" I'm right with ya, Les. Finest electric bass blues lines I've ever heard. She was driving this song, albeit with very tasteful guitar comping.
I had never heard of Carol until this day. Truly amazing and awesome!
Carol and Les together. Great stuff, and historical as well. Excellent.
Ah yes... the 1st lady of Bass Guitar....Carol Kaye..... She is the "gold standard" in the bass guitar world....
Gail K.: Really? Not in any bass world that I'm aware of. Perhaps she has a highly selective cult following?
She played the 6 string guitar too other then the bass
Cinco Charms - erm really? Name another bassist who played on hits by The Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Sam Cook (guitar), the Righteous Brothers, Sonny & Cher, Barbara Streisand, Nancy Sinatra, and Lou Rawls among many others. She played on at least 1 early Frank Zappa album and he always was very selective about musicians. Finally, here she is jamming with Les Paul. So yeah “gold standard in the bass world” seems appropriate.
Cinco Charms - ignorant and narrow minded eh? Lol 😝
Madonna is a talentless twat. Carol Kaye was an incredibly prolific studio musician over decades and everything from jazz to R&B to pop music. When you help write and play a bass line for Brian Wilson like “Good Vibrations”, let me know. I’d love to hear it.
@@chipsterb4946 if she, in your mind, is a brilliant bass player, then good for you. I really don't want to offend her work. She was a very good studio player and could read the charts. Ground breaking bassist? No.
Thanks to TH-cam i have a new point of view about American popular music! True legend,Carol Kaye!
Carol Kaye was clearly a bass playing treasure. I think it was an advantage that she came from guitar player to bass; more precision, excellent rhythm, knowledge of chords, everything she does on the bass is more than good, it is excellent.
Rick Smith........Yep, on both. She talks about it; started with guitar and somebody asked her to play bass because they were without a bass player for a session. A lot of musicians begin a certain instrument and switch. I started on trombone as a kid. The teacher made me quit because they needed the school trombone for a kid who could play it in the band (that's what she said). Then accordion years later. Then string bass because the school orchestra needed more members and the teacher told me to learn the bass because I was taller than the other kids. That was 66 years ago. Is life logical? Naahhh. What do you play, Rick Smith?
It can be written either way. My point of view was from the perspective of a bass player. She joined the group called bass players. She came to my side.
Carol played Bass on two tracks in a session I had the Wrecking Crew on. Go to www.therockislandboys.com and click on the Listen button. Hal, Don and Carol played on Walk Along The Beach Tonight and God Bless California. Please post your comments here on the two songs on the site. I'd like some feedback on them.
Dr. Richmann........I listened to the first 8 bars of all of them. That's where you have your chance to get a listener's attention. Some were reminiscent of Beach Boys early music. I've had the opinion that good arrangers make songs as much, maybe more, than composers. What are opinions worth? Sometimes nothing. The headliners/stars get the glory and the biggest money. The top notch musicians are essential. But I'll side with the good arrangers.
Thanks. Yes, good arrangers are essential. Listen to the break on the two cited songs, especially God Bless California and you'll hear Carol play an amazing bass part. The break is amazing on that one.
Carol is an inspiration
Love you Carol!!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you for all the amazing bass lines.
Carol Kaye and the late Les Paul, both legends, the ones and only.
How can there be two "ones and only"?
@@guitarslim56 That's how "taste" works in the arts. Virtuosos are athletes and trainable. Artists just speak to us personally on an interior level where our life associations carry a whole lot of subconscious wiring and internal\emotional sensorial triggers. All this ego about hierarchy of great musicians is silly. Is one flavor "better" than another flavor? Or do our taste buds acquire some tastes later in life or get conditioned into liking healthier stuff to eat if we are adapting? Don't ever surrender your personal tastes to "Market Forces." Especially not in politics!!!!!!!!!
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers)
Media Discussion List\Looksee
This woman is a musical pioneer
Carol has all the moves - Rock and Roll owes these oldsters big time.
What a gift Caro Kaye is to music. To get so many licks out of just three chords.
Ken, Toronto
I would love to see Jim Burton and Carol Kaye play together...2 session legends...
She’s my biggest musical inspiration- love Kaye
She's got a special place in all our hearts and a groove in heaven ♥
She's alive and well
Carol Kaye has been one of my main bass influences for the past 40 years. She's the reason I still watch reruns of " The Streets of San Francisco". I had one of her bass teaching books when that show wasn't a rerun.
Greg you are so right. Her musical history is so extensive and the base and guitar licks which contributed to hit after hit. No doubt she is a giant behind the curtains in the music industry.
VERY cool, yes she has been around. Her curriculum is so extensive, and always stood behind that limelight. Shame most don't even know how much work she's done for so many artists, TV shows etc...my hat goes off to her for sure!!!!
chris lentz --ChrIs, I thank you so very much!!!!!
This generation would love to hear this and know what they missed
And that's why music was better back then! God bless them all!
LETSLEEPING DOGSLIE lespaul.org
She'll pass away unrecognised by "The Industry". It's a terrible shame but that's the way it is. Not enough men will stand up and tell her name. Still, millions of us know who she is. She will not be forgotten.
To hear all the recording Carol played on is one thing but live, going through the paces she shines ! ...
Lespaul.org
Her chops came the hard way playing as a white "chick" with mostly black "cats" in the Seattle and Tacoma jazz and r&b scenes around Puget Sound. Both small combo live work and with orchestra. Not much of a studio scene around Seattle back in early 60's and 70's so she made the right move to get steady work and be able to raise her kid.
I recommend viewing Wrecking Crew's own IDENTITY ENFORCER Hal Blaine's sniping at Carol Kaye's credentials with a skeptical eye and ear. Blaine doesn't like the fact that Carol Kaye can speak for herself and seek her own day in court with judges independent of the locker room\clubhouse shenanigans and insecure identities of the Triple Scale Wrecking Crew studio elite. Nobody not included in this Golden Rolodex thought these musicians were any kind of hierarchy or merit-based group of instrumental aces. Ironic that Blaine a product of the Catskills and resort hotels along with comedy and burlesque drumming gigs before he started snagging the studio recording gigs for Hollywood could turn out to be an enforcer taking aim at Carol Kaye for being included in the documentary film named THE WRECKING CREW and the follow-up docs and outtakes released by the film director son of Tommy Tedesco, who Blaine concedes was a bona fide Wrecking Crew member, even if the Tedescos didn't like that nickname for its exclusive and bullying sound. Blaine lives down to the sound's identity. As if commercial plasticity is anything any artist wants to be known for anyways. He's the shanda, not muse Carol Kaye!
Mitch Ritter\Pardigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers)
Media Discussion List\Looksee
Finally after seeing a many location videos of Carol on YT- someone framed her hands playing- in focus, with decent audio- in a one-off jam such as this. Sure it’s a 12 bar blues in E of the classic Before You Accuse Me, bit it’s ideal to see her chord shapes and style. And as much as Carol loves Ibanez basses, I for one love watching her hands glide along the neck of a Fender bass. Well shot, well lit and an intimate setting with legendary Les Paul. Thx for this.
all them times i had the opportunity to go n see LP play at the Bluenote in NYC...
still kickin myself for that
It's obvious this wonderful lady created many of the bass licks for the recording industry and made a lot of front men famous. Glad these stories are being told. I hope she is hearing the credit now !!
Donald Irvin lespaul.org
She's killing it. Absolutely mad
God bless her such a great talent ,,greetings from Swiss
I have been playing guitar for awhile now, and Bass is a strange animal I have yet to let loose. Been watching many videos with bass players, and found this one. Watch Carols hands on this piece and you can see why she is the one everybody wanted on their albums.
Thank You for the reply, and the link. You gotda love Les Paul. I away's thought of him as a tinker than a guitar player. But man can he play. Jaw dropping moments when watching him play. Just great. Thank You again.
The World’s Best Bassist 🙏🏻
The general public doesn't know Carol's name, but they sure have heard her playing. Any one of the hits she played on would be a career high, and she has tons.
Les gave Carol the spotlight. Instead of loading up on lead riffs he let her take over and she delivered.
Go Carol go!!! Go girl🎸🙋🏽♀️💕
her playing is SO lyrical and clear.
The greatest bass player the world has never known! God Bless and keep you always Mz Kaye. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your wonderful talents and all the hits!
Rick N. Backer I think jamerson has that title...
She is one.... Of a kind... Yes what history for us bass players to learn from...no pyrotechnics, just dead on bass notes and feel....!
Carol rocking it out as always
Don’t say that to her lol
Carol Kaye is just AWESOME !!!
Carol Kaye The Absolute Best !
She deserves so much respect.
Probably the best bass player ever, Carol Kaye😘
my music teacher suggested that i should watch carol and,,,,, oh boy,,,,,,,,,,, do not regret. blown away
Wow! Great vid, great playing. Carol was a hot number in her day! For Les to step aside and let her run with it... Saw Les a few times at Tuesday's. Miss this music.
It gets no better than this. She is the bass goddess!
Great talent, Carol Kaye is a Bass goddess!
CAROL: HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF SUCCESSES. GREETINGS FROM SOUTH ITALY
i can say now i have more carol kaye tracks than the rest of the line up combined,including lp carol is a legend
david janson exactly.
The video should be called
“CAROL KAYE and friends “
Carol Kaye the Best of the Best ever live in Rock and Roll.a true Legend and performer.
Historically amazing
That's pretty cool! At first, Les Paul looks at her and is like, "Listen to this over here!". Then he keeps looking at her throughout the performance like, "Damn, this woman can PLAY!" And she really could. One of the best bass players ever. And she also rocked the guitar! She was so good.
Carol Kaye probably the greatest basest of all time. Thanks to TH-cam she is finally getting the recognition she deserves.
And that is THE bassline for that jam!
Two guitar legends. Never saw this before!
The smile on her face... “There it is, Thats what I’m looking for. Gotcha.”
She's still teaching the Bass community how it's done. I bow to the Queen of session musicians. You will live forever.
Carol Kaye one of the best Fender bass players to ever live
I watched a video of carol going into a recording Studio in California and they turned her away. (Sad) . She is and always will be one of our greatest musical talents inspiration musician in history. Love to you miss Carol!!❤️❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵➕
Yeah,..I just saw that video here on TH-cam tonight. Absolutely disgraceful the way they turned her away.
Carol Kaye The Unsung Hero that deserves HOF Induction .
If you've heard only THREE songs you've heard Carol's YUUGE contribution to American popular music: "The Beat Goes On" "Good Vibrations". and " Wichita Lineman"!
The great mrs Kaye!!!
Beautiful bassline!!!
Flatwound strings on that P Bass........What a tone!
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nice solo Ms Kaye!!!!!!!!!!!