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‘Don’t say: what if we did this reggae style?’ The huge yet humble lives of unofficial band members
From Manic Street Preachers to Simple Minds, few bands are complete without their full-time touring players. They discuss the peaks and practicalities of life on the sidelines
He and longtime touring Genesis drummer Chester Thompson talked about how, when original members Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins get together: “We might as well just go somewhere else because we’re not gonna understand what they’re getting at. “My role has changed over 18 years,” Murray says, “and James [Dean Bradfield] has given me more of the iconic guitar parts – I’ve played the arpeggios in A Design for Life for the last eight years.” And sometimes he ends up being creative by mistake. He was playing with indie band Spector when he was asked to fill in for the last three dates of the Vaccines’ 2016 summer tour, including shows at the Reading and Leeds festivals.
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