Jeff Walker

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Jeff Walker (2014)

Jeff Walker (born March 25, 1969 in St Helens ) is a British musician . He became known as the bassist and singer of the grindcore / death metal band Carcass .

Life

Jeff Walker was born in 1969 in the British industrial city of St Helens. His father was a factory worker, his mother works in a shop. He has an older brother and an older sister. As a child of Catholic parents, Walker attended a Catholic school. At the age of 16, despite good grades, he finished school without a qualification, left his parents' house, registered as unemployed and began to play in various bands. Up to the age of 29 he did not have any regular work apart from his work as a musician. Only after the band Carcass separated for the first time did he have various jobs, including as a civil servant. In the 1990s he moved to Liverpool , where he still lives today. Walker is vegan .

Career as a musician

Jeff Walker was the singer of the Electro Hippies from 1985 , with whom he had some live appearances and on whose first demo Play Loud or Not at All from 1986 he can be heard. He also played in a band with Mark Griffith (later Cathedral ). After Walker was kicked out of the Electro Hippies in early 1987, he bought the bass guitar from the bassist who was also kicked out. Bill Steer , guitarist of the newly formed hardcore punk band Disattack, asked him if he would like to join the band as bassist. Shortly thereafter, the band changed their name to Carcass. After the singer left the band, Walker took over the vocals in addition to the bass and wrote the lyrics. With Carcass he recorded a total of five studio albums between 1988 and 1996. In addition to his work as a bassist, Walker designed the band logos for Carcass and Napalm Death as well as the logo of the record label Earache Records .

After the band split up in 1996, Walker founded the Blackstar project with Ken Owen (formerly Carcass) and Mark Griffith (formerly Cathedral ) . In 1997 Peaceville Records released the only studio album Barbed Wire Soul , which with around 12,000 units sold in Europe did not bring the hoped-for success. In 2004 he founded the independent label InGrindWeTrust, on which he released the album Welcome to Carcass Cuntry in 2006. In the following years he worked as a tour bassist for various metal bands, including for the Mexicans Brujeria under the pseudonym El Cynico and for the Finns To Separate the Flesh from the Bones. In 2007 Carcass regrouped since heard Walker again to cast the band.

Discography

with Carcass
with Blackstar
  • Barbed Wire Soul (1997)
as Jeff Walker and The Flüffers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Conny Schiffbauer: Chatterbox: Jeff Walker . In: Rock Hard . No. 323 , April 2014, p. 16-18 .
  2. ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . Iron Pages, 2004, ISBN 978-3-931624-35-4 , pp. 109 .
  3. ↑ a b Jeff Walker Interview. (No longer available online.) Earache Records , May 30, 2003, archived from the original on January 1, 2010 ; accessed on May 21, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.earache.com
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Jeff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH St Helens