Barry "The Fish" Melton (born June 14, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City) was the co-founder (1965) and original lead guitarist of Country Joe and The Fish. Events 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. The City of New York Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Country Joe and the Fish was a rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971. Barry appears on all the Country Joe and The Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded. He appeared in the films made at Monterey Pop and Woodstock, and also appeared as an outlaw in the neo-Western film, 'Zachariah,' and other films in which Country Joe and the Fish appear. Monterey Pop is a 1968 Concert film by DA Pennebaker that documents the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967. Melton is also a founding member of The Dinosaurs, the Bay Area's only psychedelic music "supergroup. The Dinosaurs, formed in 1982 was a Bay Area supergroup to emerge from the Psychedelic music era of San Francisco. " He has been a criminal defense lawyer for over 20 years, and he currently serves as the Public Defender of Yolo County, California. In the United States, a public defender is an Attorney whose duty is to provide legal representation to people who are charged with a crime or other offense Yolo County is located in the northern part of the US state of California, bordered by the counties of Sacramento, Solano,
Barry also continues to be active in music. Since 2001 he has performed in Italy, England, France and Russia (he appeared with the Russian band, Crossroadz, in Moscow). Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of He often appears with his own band, mainly around Northern California, and generally tours Europe briefly in the summer. Peter Albin of Big Brother and The Holding Company has continued to play with Barry for over 35 years. Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the psychedelic music scene
External links
- Barry "The Fish" Melton homepage
- CJFishlegacy.com
- Barry Melton Band collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
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