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for a brief time, following the departure of founding member

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, just before

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came in and replaced him. Barnard does not appear on any released Genesis recordings. After leaving Genesis, Barnard embarked on a successful career in audio engineering, founding the Bel Digital Audio company in 1975.

Stint in Genesis

Genesis' final concert with the ''Trespass'' line-up (

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vocals,

guitar, Tony Banks keyboards,

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bass, and John Mayhew drums) was on 18 July 1970, after which Phillips left the band. In August and early September, the band played concerts as a four-piece. In September, drummer Mayhew was replaced by

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, and this new four-piece line-up played several concerts in October. Mick Barnard was recommended to the band by Friars Aylesbury impresario David Stopps, and he joined Genesis as their new guitarist. The Banks-Gabriel-Rutherford-Collins-Barnard line-up played shows from 3 November 1970 to 10 January 1971: thirty concerts and one television appearance. Barnard appeared with the band on a

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programme called ''Disco 2'', which was their earliest TV appearance. This was recorded on 14 November 1970. Gabriel sang live, but all the instrumentalists (including Barnard) mimed to their recorded tracks. This footage is now lost. In January 1971, Barnard was replaced by Steve Hackett, and this new line-up played their first concert on 14 January 1971. Tony Banks made the following comment about Barnard's guitar playing:

He was OK, but not really forceful enough. I remember when we had already auditioned Steve but were still rehearsing with Mick which wasn't a very nice thing to do, we were doing the end part of "The Musical Box" and he was playing this little guitar phrase over the top of it and we thought this was really good. So just as we were about to boot him out he did something quite good.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barnard, Mick Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English rock guitarists Genesis (band) members English lead guitarists English audio engineers