Bailey was born and raised in Manhattan, Kansas on October 3. While still attending Manhattan High School in Kansas, he founded the band Rathbone, which developed a strong regional fan base. In 1972, Bailey and Rathbone moved to Los Angeles to foster their musical career.\n', '

Bailey joined Gerard McMahon\'s band and recorded No Looking Back on Full Moon/Warner Brothers which was released in 1983. While playing live shows with McMahon\'s band, Bailey was requested by Bob Seger\'s office to fly to Detroit and audition for Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. Bailey played lead guitar on Seger\'s The Distance tour, recorded Seger\'s Like a Rock album and performed in several videos.\n', '

Bailey then formed his own band called Private Parts and recorded their debut album in 1986 called Dancing The Marmara. It was during this time that Bailey\'s former bandmate Jason Scheff called him to audition for the lead guitarist spot in Chicago. Bailey toured and recorded with Chicago from July 1986 to January 1995, and was a contributor to their previously unreleased album, which was intended in 1994 to be titled Stone of Sisyphus. He composed the title track for that album, as well as another track called "Get on This". The latter was not included on the eventual June 2008 Rhino Records release of Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus for unknown reasons.\n', '

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