Talk:Mick Barnard

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What - if anything - has ever been found out about M.B.'s post-Genesis career? What happened to him? Scott1329m 21:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to know that as well! He seems to be even more "forgotten" than the pre-Nursery Cryme drummers. World of Genesis at least has interviews with them. Why was he only a temporary member? Was he a poor player or did he already have other plans for his life? I know he did not record with Genesis at all but has anyone heard any recordings of him elsewhere?

Also, Barnard's time in the band must have coincided more or less with the period Gabriel was laid up with his broken leg from his stage dive during a performance of The Knife. Did they do any touring at all with Barnard or did he just help in rehearsals whilst Gabriel's leg was healing? Thanks. 210.50.60.69 (talk) 07:28, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I found some information in a new book called Genesis: Behind the Lines 1967-2007 by Robin Platts [1]. There is a brief interview with Barnard and a modern-day photograph of him. He acknowledges he was very much still learning his craft whilst in Genesis and found some of the songs difficult to play because of their open chords. Apparently he became a very good friend of Peter Gabriel but had a severe personality clash with Tony Banks, who allegedly ostracized him (perhaps as a forerunner to Tony's treatment of Steve Hackett?) Peter realised what Tony was doing to Mick and tried to support and console him. He also generally liked Phil. If anyone actually has this book (I as just flipping through it in a shop) can you please cite from it and improve the article? Thanks. 202.138.16.45 (talk) 22:56, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Writing credits

Despite the writing credits on early Genesis albums generally being printed as simply "Genesis", this is only for public consumption - by checking in the PRS/MCPS Alliance database, you can see the official legal copyright percentage shares for songwriting credits on everything. This info is not in the public domain, but as a PRS/MCPS I took the time to look it up. Mick Barnard does not own any copyright share on any old Genesis song. On "Twilight Alehouse", Anthony Phillips actually owns a share. Hackett owns a share on every track on Nursery Cryme, and it is actually Collins who is not credited on some of them. It is difficult to satisfy WP:VER on this point, as the info is not in the public domain, however that is no excuse for breaking WP:NOR instead.--feline1 (talk) 18:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)