Guitarist, producer, and singer-songwriter
whose gritty solo on
Bob Seger's "Like a
Rock" has been heard by the masses thanks to those Chevy truck
ads.Bailey
replaced Drew
Abbott
in 1982 and stayed with The Silver Bullet Band four years.He emigrated
to Chicago and stayed with them until 1995.After that, he collaborated with
Belly Puddle and Shayna and released solo
projects on his own record label, Goblin Girl Records.In 1997, he recorded and went on
tour with Jeff Duff and Rebecca Johnson in Australia.He also played guitar on Pat Boone's
In a Metal Mood:No More Mr. Nice Guy.A year later, he recorded and toured
with Veronique Sanson.As recently as 2006, he released Joyland, which
falls just this side of a one-man band
project:He played most of the
instruments, sang vocals, and shouldered a large portion of the production
work.You can also hear him on the
anthology Chicago:The Box, which contains the
previously unreleased Stone of
Sisyphus.
