The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Bass Zone => Topic started by: ilan on November 11, 2016, 09:56:35 AM
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https://twitter.com/BassPlayerNow/status/797105314415853573
(http://www.weatherreportdiscography.org/images/press/wr-press-8403.jpg)
(http://www.notreble.com/buzz/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Victor-Bailey-620x349.jpg?x43795)
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Way too young. RIP
Killer player...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS_X0xwhPQQ
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rip...
Hmm... note to self... don't offer services to Weather Report or Allmans... not good for health... :sad:
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I saw that he had Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Very nasty way to go. RIP.
Al Caiola, Leonard Cohen, and now Victor Bailey, all within the past couple of days.
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Oh No!
I popped in here to post up something, mainly for Kenny and just see this.
What a sad loss - 56??? :-[
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I saw that he had Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Very nasty way to go. RIP.
Al Caiola, Leonard Cohen, and now Victor Bailey, all within the past couple of days.
Wow, that's rough. I have a sister who's suffered from CMT for years now. Her wrists and ankles are fried. She's 60 and has been walking with a cane for several years now because of it. I have to wonder if it impaired his playing. I never really followed Victor Baily, so I don't know what he's been up to in recent years.
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Tom, the article I saw said that it had severely affected his playing.
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R.I.P. :sad: Bass Player featured him in a cover story March 2016. The guy was incredibly talented. A drummer at 10 and then started playing bass at 15 and was in Weather Report by age 20! My favorite question/answer from that interview:
Q: When the blowing commenced, what was it like to follow Wayne and Joe?
A: It was a challenge from the start, because I was practicing bebop at the time, and Joe would say, "Don't play any bebop on my bandstand--Wayne and I already did that." But the glaring difference was I had only been playing for six years, so I sounded like I was trying; they never sounded like they were trying. Wayne was so brilliant. I'll never forget, there's a song on Domino Theory called "Blue Sound--Note 3," a slow ballad in F minor. Although it didn't make it onto the album that way, in rehearsals I would solo on it before Wayne; I'd play a million notes, everything under the sun. One day after my solo he turned around and looked me right in the eyes and played three chromatic notes, A flat, A, and B flat. Then he proceeded to play those three notes in so many different ways, with like a bar and a half between each phrase. It was so profound, it completely wiped out what I had played! He was basically telling me, you just played a whole bunchy of stuff, now check this out. Those guys were at the level where they spoke through their instruments, while I was playing stuff I had worked out and practiced.
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What a horrible way to go for someone whose hands must have meant everything to him.
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The news was a shock to me. It didn't seem too long ago someone shared this video of him playing a Coltrane solo. It was filmed about two years ago. If he was ailing at the time, it wasn't very evident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgGM781nR2M
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The news was a shock to me. It didn't seem too long ago someone shared this video of him playing a Coltrane solo. It was filmed about two years ago. If he was ailing at the time, it wasn't very evident.
I can't find the article I referred to earlier, but it obviously was no secret. According to this article from a year ago, he was no longer able to perform.
Victor Bailey Faces Challenges; Stays Strong (http://forbassplayersonly.com/victor-bailey-faces-challenges-stays-strong/)
And there was a fundraiser (http://www.phillytrib.com/entertainment/philadelphia-clef-club-hosts-fundraiser-for-bassist-victor-bailey/article_2a8ab0b1-adfb-57e6-b0cd-baba2b86d214.html) for him earlier this year.