Bassist Carol Kaye says that she declines the induction of rock hall of fame – permanently

Carol Kaye, a prolific and revered bassist who played on thousands of songs in the 1960s, including beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel and Barbra Streisand tubes, the Associated Press said on Friday that she did not want to be part of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

“I refused the RRHOF. Pervoltance,” said Kaye, 90, in an e-mail at the AP. She said she had sent a letter to the hall saying the same thing.

Her remarks come two days after an article on Facebook – since deleted – in which she said: “No, I will not be there. I refuse the RRHOF Awards show. ”

Kaye was to be inducted in November In a class that also includes Joe Cocker, Chubby Checker and Cyndi Lauper.

She said in her deleted position that she “refused it because it was not something that reflects the work that studio musicians do and made in the golden era of recording hits from the 1960s.”

Kaye’s credits include the bass lines on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound”, the “good vibrations” of the Beach Boys and “I’m a Believer” of the Monkees.

With drummer Hal Blaine and guitarist Tommy Tedesco, she was part of a highly used studio musicians core that Blaine later nicknamed “The Wrecking Crew”.

Kaye hated the name and suggested in her article on Facebook that her association with her was part of the drop in induction.

“I have never been a” shipwreck “,” she wrote, “it’s a terrible insulting name.”

Kaye’s enthroned page On the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the website makes no mention of the nickname.

The representatives of the room had no immediate comments.

Many artists were inducted in their absence or after their death, and in 2006, the sex pistols became the temple of fame despite the rejection of their induction.

In 2022, Dolly Parton initially refused His enthronement, saying that someone more associated with rock ‘n’ roll should obtain the honor. But she was convinced to change her mind and Kiss the honor.