Now that is most interesting and I'm glad to see that the somewhat trivial text I posted turns out to be an occasion to bring such things to light.

Good discussion all around. I get Carol.
 
The older you get, the more important it becomes to have something of a legacy. Most of us will never have one that goes outside our immediate families. I'm helping a good friend to write a book about his life on the road. As he fact checks his own memories, it's not uncommon for everyone surrounding some significant event to have a completely different version in their memory.

I don't really care who played what when. Kaye and Jamerson are both towering legends in my mind. JJ had more hits, but Carol played on more records - 10,000 by her estimate, and that's entirely believable considering how many years she was doing it before retiring.
 
Funny we'd debate which session players were on a record, but have no problem accepting that Ringo was the Beatles' only drummer. The important thing in all this is that I've been incorrectly referring to that instrument as a "guitar" for all these years. I wonder; is "axe" still acceptable?

I think Axe is some kind of stinkum you can buy and slather yourself with and then be besieged by "hot chicks".

As to the Brian Holland thingy...while it most likely is 100% accurate...it's just another possibly dubious piece of historical detritus that may or may not be an accurate accounting or have any relevance at all. Such is the historians...and those who "look things up on the interweb" tenuous footing. Actual historical "truth" is a maddeningly elusive sprite. All the more reason to try and capture it.

That's heavy stuff, doghouse. As a history buff, I am fascinated by how it's continuously rewritten over time, even in the absence of any new evidence. And how ignorance of history warps one's perception of current/recent events. (Think W was our worst president ever? You don't know Andrew Johnson!)

Word.

I love Carol Kaye. Her work with Joe Pass is a joy to listen to and her body of work is astounding. She basically invented the bass vocabulary for pop music. She sure isn't the first musician I've heard of who probably shouldn't talk so much, but despite that, she's a great inspiration to me.

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That's heavy stuff, doghouse. As a history buff, I am fascinated by how it's continuously rewritten over time, even in the absence of any new evidence. And how ignorance of history warps one's perception of current/recent events. (Think W was our worst president ever? You don't know Andrew Johnson!)

And that Polk! Fuggeddaboutit!