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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Basic Doors (was:revisiting the White Stripes) |
| Date | Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:35:17 -0500 |
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At 04:31 PM 10/31/2003 -0500, crotherskp wrote:
>>> Notice he uses the word "concerts." A lot of references to recording
>>> indicate that they used session bass players.
>
>>Depends who you ask - most of those references trace back to Carol Kaye,
>who is notoriously inaccurate at remembering what she did or didn't play
>on... I'm not a huge Doors fan, but I'm pretty convinced there's no bass on
>any of the big hits - and if they didn't bring in a session player for the
>singles, it would seem unlikely they would bring one in for album tracks...
I've never heard anyone claim that Carole Kaye played on any Doors records.
They did, however, occasionally bring in Douglas Lubahn from their
labelmates Clear Light to play bass in the studio. He appears with them in
a recording studio scene in Joan Didion's essay "The White Album."
S
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