OK, cool. I just have a hard time with this bit (makes the dude sound like he's not a musician to any degree at all):
"Second, Motown was constantly re-recording material. If you look at Motown albums from this era, you have the Supremes and Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson doing each other’s songs, and everybody doing everybody else’s hits.
“The singers were often not in the room when the session musicians were recording these songs – so if you’re the bass player, and you’re playing on what you think is Get Ready, for example, how do you know if it’s the hit version? Is it a re-recorded version? Is it an album version? Is it for a movie or for TV? And Motown also recorded lots of stuff that was never released. So you can’t really blame any of the bass players for not knowing if it’s them or not.”
Like, Ok sure, but you'd think the people themselves would be able to hear it and say - yeah that's what I played; my style. Granted Kaye's not gonna sit down and listen to all those songs in a row with a checklist so fair enough. That's a lot of material and if you remember playing on (some version of) it that can be confusing if you don't actually sit down and critically listen to it on a reference system.
Like there's weekend my-folks-are-out-of-town-lets-rent-an-8-track sessions I was at when I was younger and maybe it was a boozefest and I don't remember whether I played drums, rhythm guitar or bass on a given song... or anything at all - was just there, but I can listen to the damn song and be like - nope, that ain't me, I wasn't using a pick at the the time (or, I wouldn't be caught dead doing the disco octave thing).
