{"id":167209,"date":"2025-09-25T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167209\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:09:08","slug":"carol-kaye-rejects-rock-hall-honor-and-will-boycott-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167209\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Kaye Rejects Rock Hall Honor and Will Boycott Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Photo: Jasper Dailey\/Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images\n <\/p>\n

For maximum reading enjoyment, feel free to cue up \u201cSloop John B\u201d or \u201cThe Beat Goes On\u201d on your speakers. Carol Kaye<\/a>, the most revered bassist of the session-musician era, is refusing to attend her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction later this year. Kaye told the New York Times in a September 24 interview<\/a> that she\u2019s boycotting every aspect of the honor, which comes in the form of the generalized Musical Excellence Award. \u201cWell, I don\u2019t do things because other people want me to do them. I have to do things the way I see fit,\u201d she explained. \u201cFirst off, I\u2019m not a rocker, I\u2019m a jazz musician. And I\u2019m not a soloist. I worked in the studio as part of a team.\u201d Despite initially being \u201cstunned\u201d and \u201csurprised\u201d<\/a> by the recognition when announced in April, Kaye has since soured on the Rock Hall, stating in June that she would be declining the award. Among her quibbles, she wrote<\/a> on social media, was that it \u201cwasn\u2019t something that reflects the work that studio musicians do and did in the golden era of the 1960s recording hits.\u201d Fellow 2025 inductee Chubby Checker is also not showing up for the ceremony. In a strange turn of events<\/a>, the organization presented him with his trophy at a concert in late July after Checker told his manager to book him a gig on the night of the induction. Now, if we could get an update about Meg White<\/a>, that would be terrific.<\/p>\n

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