Carol Kaye

streethawk

Why have I never heard of this woman??

Played on Doors records, Freak Out, you name it!

DulcetJones

I had some of her bass guitar instruction books way back in the 70's, there was another thread here about her sometime in the recent past. 

monquixote

Superb musician, one of the all time session greats, love those vids. 

57Deluxe

was subject to a BBC Radio 2 docu couple years back...

try this docu though on YT



Wichiteau lineman lead line was a bass line NOT Guitar!!!

hotpot

WTF is Simmons sporting on his head!  I caught the Documentary on TV a while ago. She's a very cool talented lady.

Phil_aka_Pip

She's awesome

XWulfhere

Lots of beach boys too, pet sound iirc

Dominic

I think she is the most recorded bassist of all time

she did lots of film scores and incidental music

SNAKEBITE

There should really be more about her in publications, a woman of this calibre needs to known about!

Philly_Q

I know about her because she used to get mentioned in Guitar Player a lot in the 1980s, especially in Tommy Tedesco's Studio Log column.

For a moment I was actually going to write that I hadn't heard any of her playing....   

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ICBM

57Deluxe said:

Wichiteau lineman lead line was a bass line NOT Guitar!!!

Interesting - I always thought it was a baritone guitar.

I've known about her for many years - can't remember how I found out about her originally - but it still surprises me how much she played on, and I keep coming across more.

sticker

ICBM said:

57Deluxe said:

Wichiteau lineman lead line was a bass line NOT Guitar!!!

Interesting - I always thought it was a baritone guitar.

I've known about her for many years - can't remember how I found out about her originally - but it still surprises me how much she played on, and I keep coming across more.

I'm fairly certain the solo was played by Glenn Campbell on Carol's Danelectro longhorn 6 string bass (them both being part of the wrecking crew and all) .

 I've read that a fair few times before and it was mentioned in a Glen Campbell documentary too . 

There's a YouTube clip where he plays it with the Stone Temple Pilots and the sound is spot on .

sticker

Paul_C

ICBM said:

57Deluxe said:

Wichiteau lineman lead line was a bass line NOT Guitar!!!

Interesting - I always thought it was a baritone guitar.

I've known about her for many years - can't remember how I found out about her originally - but it still surprises me how much she played on, and I keep coming across more.

that's because she keeps adding things to the list

Sassafras

Which Doors tracks has she played on?

I can't find anything about work she's done with them.

Samgb

Sassafras said:

Which Doors tracks has she played on?

I can't find anything about work she's done with them.

I think thats a mix up and he means this one:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_My_Fire_(G%C3%A1bor_Szab%C3%B3_album)

Samgb

Samgb said:

Sassafras said:

Which Doors tracks has she played on?

I can't find anything about work she's done with them.

I think thats a mix up and he means this one:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_My_Fire_(G%C3%A1bor_Szab%C3%B3_album)

Ok, that link is borked! Its a jazz album by Gabor Szabo with a cover of Light My Fire

Sassafras

Yes, that's the closest I got in my googling activities.