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Barry "The Fish" Melton (born June 14, 1947) is the co-founder and original lead guitarist of Country Joe and the Fish and Dinosaurs. He appears on all the Country Joe and the Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded.
The Barry “the fish” melton band has been playing together since the early 1970s, and continues to uphold the tradition of San Francisco rock & roll that put the Bay Area on the musical map in the mid-1960s.
Barry "The Fish" Melton. Over fifty years ago, during the “Summer of Love” – 1967 - Barry “The Fish” Melton celebrated his 20th birthday in June 1967. A few days later, he and his band, “ Country Joe and the Fish ,” were rocketed onto the world stage at the Monterey Pop Festival with such luminaries as the Jefferson Airplane, the ...
The first lineup of Country Joe and the Fish formed in mid-1965, when Country Joe McDonald (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Barry "The Fish" Melton (lead guitar, vocals) came together as a duo.
Barry began the 1970’s with an album for Columbia Records produced by legendary guitarist Michael Bloomfield, Barry took up part-time residence in the United Kingdom and recorded two albums at Rockfield Studios in Wales; and he toured extensively in the U.K., France and the Netherlands; Barry and ultimately returned home to San Francisco to reco...
Feb 13, 2021 · Another forgotten favourite. Studio tracks have proper nice West Coast feel. Lyrics for "Jesse James" by the Dead's Robert Hunter. Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales May/June 1975 ...
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Barry "the fish" Melton & Rich Hopkins. 03:23. Dual in the Desert is a straight-up, hard-driving album I did with Rich Hopkins. The album features the incomparable drumming of Tom Larkins, long-time drummer with Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, and Tucson's own Nick Augustine on bass.
