Barry Melton

Guitarist Barry Melton entered music in his teenagers, in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, as an associate of the moment Action Jug Music group, that was where he met Nation Joe McDonald, a vocalist and guitarist who was simply also getting out an underground newspapers called Rag Baby. Both worked jointly on a few of McDonald’s recordings to get his politics journal, and out of this linkup they made a decision to type a music group — the causing group was christened Nation Joe & the Seafood. Melton’s lead electric guitar — a searing psychedelic assault in the strings — was as important an integral part of the group’s three traditional albums as McDonald’s tone of voice. Amid numerous workers changes, especially following the third record, Jointly, Melton and McDonald produced the stable primary of the music group, which lasted in to the past due ’60s. Melton kept the group jointly after McDonald withdrew from full-time use the group to obtain wedded, and he brought ex-Big Sibling & the Keeping Company associates Peter Albin and David Getz aboard if they had been still left high and dried out after Janis Joplin’s divide with the music group. Functioning as Barry “The Seafood” Melton, he continuing as a single action through the 1970s and in to the 1980s, also fronting the Barry “The Seafood” Melton Music group. Melton in addition has been a exercising attorney because the early ’80s; in newer years, that profession has apparently avoided Melton from taking part in music normally as his previous bandmates.