Carol Kaye, a prolific and revered bassist who performed on 1000’s of songs within the Sixties together with hits by the Seaside Boys, Simon & Garfunkel and Barbra Streisand, informed The Related Press on Friday that she needs no a part of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.
“I’ve declined the rrhof. Permanently,” the 90-year-old Kaye stated in an electronic mail to the AP.
She stated she has despatched a letter to the Corridor saying the identical factor.
Her remarks come two days after a Fb submit — since deleted — by which she stated “NO I won’t be there. I am declining the RRHOF awards show.”
Kaye was set to be inducted in November in a category that additionally contains Joe Cocker, Chubby Checker and Cyndi Lauper.
She stated in her deleted submit that she was “turning it down because it wasn’t something that reflects the work that Studio Musicians do and did in the golden era of the 1960s Recording Hits.”
Kaye’s credit embrace the bass traces on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,” the Seaside Boys’ “Good Vibrations” and the Monkees’ “I’m a Believer.”
Together with drummer Hal Blaine and guitarist Tommy Tedesco, she was a part of a core of closely used studio musicians that Blaine later dubbed “The Wrecking Crew.”
Kaye hated the title, and steered in her Fb submit that her affiliation with it was a part of the explanation for declining induction.
“I was never a ‘wrecker’ at all,” she wrote, “that’s a terrible insulting name.”
Kaye’s inductee web page on the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame web site makes no point out of the moniker.
Corridor representatives had no rapid remark.
Many artists have been inducted of their absence or after their loss of life, and in 2006 the Intercourse Pistols turned Corridor of Famers regardless of rejecting their induction.
In 2022, Dolly Parton initially declined her induction, saying somebody extra related to rock ‘n’ roll ought to get the honour.
However she was satisfied to vary her thoughts and embrace the honour.
