Alec Baillie (died November 10, 2020) was an American
bassist
A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), synthbass, keyboard bass or a low bra ...
. He played in the bands Choking Victim, Agent 99, and Leftöver Crack.
Biography
Baillie grew up in
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the List of co ...
and attended the same high school as his future bandmate
Scott "Stza" Sturgeon. In the early 1990s, Baillie, Dunia Best,
Jay Nugent and
Ara Babajian formed the third wave ska band, Agent 99. In 1998, three years after the band had split up, a compilation album, ''Little Pieces 1993–1995'', was released. Baillie then formed a short lived punk band called
No Commercial Value with
Stza. Baillie later joined
Stza's band
Choking Victim after the departure of original bassist
Sascha Scatter
Sascha Altman DuBrul, Sascha DuBrul or Sascha Scatter, (born 1974) is an American activist, writer, farmer and punk rock musician known as the bass player of the 1990s ska-punk band Choking Victim.
He is also the co-founder of The Icarus Projec ...
, and went on to play in Choking Victim from 1995 to 1997.
Upon the dissolution of Choking Victim, Baillie went on to join a familiar lineup in
Leftöver Crack. Its members include Stza and
Ezra
Ezra (; he, עֶזְרָא, '; fl. 480–440 BCE), also called Ezra the Scribe (, ') and Ezra the Priest in the Book of Ezra, was a Jewish scribe ('' sofer'') and priest ('' kohen''). In Greco-Latin Ezra is called Esdras ( grc-gre, Ἔσδρ� ...
, both of whom played with Baillie in the now defunct Choking Victim.
Baillie died on November 10, 2020. He was reportedly on suicide watch the night before, but the official cause of death is listed as accidental drug overdose of heroin, buprenorphine and alprazolam.
Discography
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American punk rock bass guitarists
2020 deaths
American punk rock musicians
Anarcho-punk musicians
Place of death missing
Place of birth missing
American male bass guitarists
Year of birth missing
Choking Victim members
Leftöver Crack members
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