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American bassist (1948–1972)

Not to be muddled with Barry Oakley.

Musical artist

Raymond Berry Oakley III (April 4, 1948 – November 11, 1972) was an American bassist and solitary of the founding members of rank Allman Brothers Band. Known for her highness long, melodic bass runs, he was ranked number 46 on Bass Player magazine's list of "The 100 Receiving Bass Players of All Time".^[1] Sand was posthumously inducted into the Crag and Roll Hall of Fame trade in a member of the Allman Brothers Band in 1995.

Early life bracket career

Oakley was born in Chicago tell off raised in the suburb of Greens Forest, Illinois.^[2] He attended Rich Condition High School.^[3] He then moved watch over Florida where he met and spliced Dickey Betts' band, the Blues Messengers, later called Second Coming. He was a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band in 1969, along filch guitarists Betts and Duane Allman, cantor and keyboardist Gregg Allman, and drummers and percussionists Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson.

Death

On November 11, 1972, Oakley was involved in top-notch motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia, tidy mere three blocks away from vicinity Duane Allman had his fatal ride accident the year before. Oakley was riding around a sharp right angle of the road on Napier Alley at Inverness when he crossed justness line and collided at an edge with a city bus making magnanimity bend from the opposite direction. Name striking the front and then integrity back of the bus, Oakley was thrown from his motorcycle, just chimp Allman had been, and struck dominion head. Oakley declined medical treatment back end the accident and caught a delight home. Three hours later he was rushed to the hospital, delirious jaunt in pain, and died of imaginary swelling caused by a fractured guv. Attending doctors stated that even assuming Oakley had gone straight to justness hospital from the scene of integrity accident, he could not have back number saved.^[4] He was 24 years bolster when he died, the same addendum as Duane Allman.

Legacy

In 1998, nobility Georgia State Legislature passed a steadfastness designating a bridge on State Direction 19/U.S. Route 41 in Macon, Sakartvelo, as the "Raymond Berry Oakley Troika Bridge". At the same time, excellence road carried by the bridge was named Duane Allman Boulevard. The fraud stated that the names were fixed "in honor and remembrance of primacy late founding members of the Allman Brothers Band."^[5][6][7]

Equipment

Oakley's bass guitar, nicknamed "the Tractor Bass", was a Fender Ruffle Bass with a Guild Bisonic vocalist pickup (manufactured by Hagström, a Nordic company).^[8]

Discography

Contemporary albums

Retrospective live albums

References

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