Baillie grew up in Manhattan and attended the same high school as his future bandmate Scott "Stza" Sturgeon.
In the early 1990s, Baillie, Dunia Best, Jay Nugent and Ara Babajian formed the third wave ska band, Agent 99.
Baillie then formed a short lived punk band called No Commercial Value with Stza.
[2] Its members include Stza and Ezra, both of whom played with Baillie in the now defunct Choking Victim.
He was reportedly on suicide watch the night before, but the official cause of death is listed as accidental drug overdose of heroin, buprenorphine and alprazolam.