| Author | Message | ||
| funkyjazzjunky
Senior Member Username: funkyjazzjunky Post Number: 423 Registered: 5-2007 |
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 |
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 |
Here is a nice remembrance. | ||
| serialnumber12
Senior Member Username: serialnumber12 Post Number: 410 Registered: 12-2004 |
Wow!!!!...... | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 2386 Registered: 2-2006 |
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 |
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 |
Very sad news. | ||
| fmm
Advanced Member Username: fmm Post Number: 264 Registered: 6-2002 |
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 |
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 |
I see also, that he was another "upsidedown" player Brilliant! | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 433 Registered: 5-2002 |
This is so sad. From all accounts he was a truly wonderful human being. Edwin |
