darkandrew Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhysP Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTUK Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 (edited) [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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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