Steve Barnacle

[darkandrew]

Growing up in the 80s I still have a fondness for a lot of the music associated with that decade, and as such I recently bought the twin Visage CDs Demons to Diamonds / Darkness to Diamond that the band were working on at the time of Steve Strange's death. On the whole it's a pretty good album with an interesting cast of contributors including Mick MacNeil (from Simple Minds) on keyboards and Robin Simon (from pre-Midge Ure Ultravox) on guitar. On bass is a guy called Steve Barnacle whose playing I remember seeing credited on quite a few records in the 80s but I've never seen him mentioned on here before.

Here's some links to a couple of things he's done:

[url="https://soundcloud.com/the-real-visage/aday025-03-visage-your-skin-is-my-sin-antidote-version-lc"]https://soundcloud.c...dote-version-lc[/url]

and

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyv7kvd3wGQ"]https://www.youtube....h?v=oyv7kvd3wGQ[/url]

The first one is a track off the Darkness to Diamond album featuring some rather funky bass work and the second track appears to be a solo piece of his composed for the bass guitar.

Edited February 3, 2016 by darkandrew

[RhysP]

I saw him in Rick Wakemans band on the tour for the "1984" album.
He was the first person I ever saw using a Jaydee bass. Very good player. His brother Gary was a sax player if I remember correctly.

[Mykesbass]

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1454494665' post='2970184']
I saw him in Rick Wakemans band on the tour for the "1984" album.
He was the first person I ever saw using a Jaydee bass. Very good player. His brother Gary was a sax player if I remember correctly.
[/quote]

That's why the name was sounding familiar - yes, top session sax player from the time.

[jacko]

I saw him in Newcastle with Wakeman probably around 1980. I believe his nickname was Boghead. Probably something to do with the extra spiky mullet.

[JTUK]

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1454494665' post='2970184']
I saw him in Rick Wakemans band on the tour for the "1984" album.
He was the first person I ever saw using a Jaydee bass. Very good player. His brother Gary was a sax player if I remember correctly.
[/quote]

And Pete is a drummer. Their father is a jazzer so all round a pretty muscial family

Edited February 3, 2016 by JTUK