When this yr’s inductees to the Rock & Roll Corridor Of Fame had been introduced, Carol Kaye’s title was amongst them. Kaye was the bassist for the Wrecking Crew, the legendary group of session musicians that served because the backing band on numerous pop hits all through the ’60s and ’70s. Together with Thom Bell and Nicky Hopkins, Kaye was alleged to obtain the Award For Musical Excellence, which acknowledges essential supporting musicians. However in a brand new Fb publish, she says not solely is she not going to the ceremony, she’s declining induction into the Rock Corridor as a result of it doesn’t not mirror the spirit of teamwork that went into her profession as a session musician.
Right here’s what Kaye wrote:
Individuals have been asking: NO I received’t be there……. I’m declining the rrhof awards present (and denny tedesco course of)…..turning it down as a result of it wasn’t one thing that displays the work that Studio Musicians do and did within the golden period of the Sixties Recording Hits…….. you might be at all times a part of a TEAM, not a solo artist in any respect….there have been at all times 350-400 Studio Musicians (AFM Native 47 Hollywood) working within the busy Sixties, and known as that ONLY ….since Nineteen Thirties, I used to be by no means a ‘wrecker’ in any respect….that’s a horrible insulting title.
Simply so you recognize, as a working Jazz musician (soloing jazz guitar work) within the Nineteen Fifties working since 1949, I used to be by accident requested to document data by producer Bumps Blackwell in 1957, bought into recording good music, w/Sam Cooke, different artists after which by accident positioned on Fender Precision Bass mid 1963 when somebody didn’t present…….I by no means performed bass in my life however being an skilled recording guitarist, it was plain to see that 3 bass gamers employed to play “dum-de-dum” on document dates, wasn’t getting it…..it was simple for me to invent good bass traces…..as a Jazz musician, you invent each word you play……and so they used loads of Jazz musicians (and former big-band skilled musicians on all these rock and pop dates too)………..I refuse to be a part of a course of that’s one thing else quite than what I imagine in, for others’ profit and never reflecting on the reality – all of us loved working with EACH OTHER……..Thank-You for understanding. Carol Kaye
Kaye is much from the primary musician to say no to the Rock Corridor. Not counting the artists who merely didn’t attend the ceremony, the listing of those that opted to not be enshrined in Cleveland contains the Intercourse Pistols, Axl Rose, and Dolly Parton (who later modified her thoughts).
