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Clyde Slick wrote:
AS far as Carol Kaye, she claimed that it is her bass playing you hear
on almost all of the Motown stuff usually atrtributed to James
JAmerson.
This is a tough one. There is very strong evidence that Jamerson played
those sessions. And some also swear that Carol played on the Motown
sessions that she says she did, Hal Davis (who should know) among them.
Sadly, the record keeping back then was horrible. Today, one can go to
the Local 47 office and find out exactly who played what in L.A. since
about 1975 forward.
Carol is a nice person and an amazing musician. I only played with her
a few times, as she is now effectively retired. We say howdy at NAMM
each year. She is, undoubtedly, one of the most heard musicians of all
time, up there with Hal Blaine, Don Randi, Stevie Gadd, the Candoli
brothers, Dick Nash, Howard Roberts, George Roberts, Tommy Tedesco,
Louie Shelton, and a handful of others whose names the vast majority of
music fans have never heard.
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