I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
Derek Bailey
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
Derek Bailey
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
Derek Bailey
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
Derek Bailey
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
Derek Bailey
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.