Mick Barnard was a guitarist in the UK

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, The Farm. He was also the guitarist of the band Genesis

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Genesis are an English rock band that formed in 1967. The band currently comprises the longest-tenured members Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins . Past members Peter Gabriel , Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips , also played major roles in the band in its early years...

 for a brief time, following the departure of founding member Anthony Phillips

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, the role for which he is perhaps best remembered today.

Stint in Genesis

Genesis' final concert with the Trespass lineup (Tony Banks

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This article is about the musician. For other people named Tony Banks, see Tony BanksAnthony George "Tony" Banks is a British composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist...

, Peter Gabriel

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, Mike Rutherford

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Michael John Cleote Crawford Rutherford is an English musician. He is a founding member of Genesis, initially as a bassist and backup vocalist. In later incarnations of Genesis, he assumed the role of lead guitarist. He is one of only two constant members in Genesis . He also fronts Mike + The...

, Anthony Phillips

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Anthony Edwin "Ant" Phillips is an English multi instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of the band Genesis. He played guitar and sang backing vocals until leaving in 1970, following the recording of their second album, Trespass...

, John Mayhew) was on 18 July 1970, after which Phillips left the band. From 6 August to 17 September 1970 they played concerts as a four piece. Soon after that, Mayhew was replaced by Phil Collins

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, and the band played as a four piece with Collins from 2 October to 23 October. Mick Barnard then joined the band. The Banks-Gabriel-Rutherford-Collins-Barnard lineup played shows from 3 November 1970 to 10 January 1971: a total of thirty concerts and one television appearance. Barnard was then replaced by Steve Hackett

Steve Hackett

Stephen Richard Hackett is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. He gained prominence as a member of the British progressive rock group Genesis, which he joined in 1970 and left in 1977 to pursue a solo career...

, and this new lineup played their first concert on 14 January 1971.

Barnard appeared with the band on their earliest TV appearance on a BBC Television

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 programme called Disco 2. 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.

Tony Banks

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This article is about the musician. For other people named Tony Banks, see Tony BanksAnthony George "Tony" Banks is a British composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist...

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.