Tony James
Tony James was the bass player for The Sisters on Vision Thing album and during the subsequent tour(s). He left, apparently amicably, leaving Doktor Avalanche to take over bass-playing duties. The Sisters have not since had a full-time bass player, although one or other of the various guitarists have played bass on occasional live songs.
Before the Sisters, Tony's bands included Generation X and the *ahem* seminal Sigue Sigue Sputnik. It has been widely claimed that at the time Tony was putting SSS together, he approached Andrew Eldritch to be the vocalist.
Some people have suggested that Tony's recruitment was a similar move to the recruitment of Wayne Hussey in the mid-80's; a deliberately provocative move that the fans would not necessarily understand, and possibly even strongly dislike.
External Links
- For slightly more information do also check wikipedia and Tony James' discography at discogs...
- There is an interview with Tony (courtesy of those nice folk at myheartland.co.uk) here.
- Tony's own reminiscences of his time with The Sisters can be found here.
After leaving The Sisters of Mercy, Tony James became a founding member of Carbon Silicon.
