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funkyjazzjunky
Senior Member Username: funkyjazzjunky
Post Number: 423 Registered: 5-2007
| Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 - 10:46 am: | |
The fellowship of Bass players lost a comrade with the passing of former NBA player and smooth jazz artist Wayman Tisdale |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 8084 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 - 11:06 am: | |
Wow; thanks for posting this. I liked his playing; he was a good player. He died of bone cancer. |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 8085 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 - 11:08 am: | |
Here is a nice remembrance. |
serialnumber12
Senior Member Username: serialnumber12
Post Number: 410 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 - 11:21 am: | |
Wow!!!!...... |
olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver
Post Number: 2386 Registered: 2-2006
| Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 - 11:50 am: | |
He was a young man too. Terrible loss. The "Way Up" interview on the first link is real cool. OO |
pas
Intermediate Member Username: pas
Post Number: 181 Registered: 3-2003
| Posted on Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 7:01 am: | |
He was the only bass player I ever saw who made Stanley Clarke look physically small by comaparison. |
57basstra
Senior Member Username: 57basstra
Post Number: 921 Registered: 4-2005
| Posted on Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 7:24 am: | |
Very sad news. |
fmm
Advanced Member Username: fmm
Post Number: 264 Registered: 6-2002
| Posted on Monday, May 18, 2009 - 5:11 am: | |
I used to manage the Maintenance Shop bar in the Iowa State University Student Union. It was a Friday night, and we were to play Oklahoma in basketball the next day. I think they were ranked #2 in the country at the time. Several players from the Oklahoma team came into the bar, and I started giving them beer in the hope that they would over consume and be hung over for the game, and perhaps ISU would have a chance. Wayman Tisdale came in and said, “I see that you are giving my friends beer. If you give me some beer, I might score 40 points tomorrow!”. I gave him a six pack and asked him to please not do that. I think he scored 38. After the team left the bar, one of my bartenders said, “Call the police, and tell them that the Oklahoma team was here and stole a bunch of beer!”. I declined, knowing that the ISU coach (Johnny Orr) would kill me if I pulled anything like that. By the way, all of the players were perfect gentlemen. I wish I had known at the time that Tisdale was a bass player. I’ll bet he didn’t get the chance to talk about that much during basketball season. |
georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy
Post Number: 727 Registered: 8-2005
| Posted on Monday, May 18, 2009 - 5:54 am: | |
WOW!!! What a great guy.....and what a performer..I was well impressed by his tone and the feel he put into "Sunday's Best" What a tragig loss to the world.yet again. What bass was that ?? |
georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy
Post Number: 728 Registered: 8-2005
| Posted on Monday, May 18, 2009 - 5:59 am: | |
I see also, that he was another "upsidedown" player Brilliant! |
edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin
Post Number: 433 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Monday, May 18, 2009 - 4:46 pm: | |
This is so sad. From all accounts he was a truly wonderful human being. Edwin |