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On Monday 26th July I'm delighhted to announce The Barry "The Fish" Melton Band are coming to South Parade Pier, Southsea on their 2010 U.K tour, with some VERY special guests, David LaFlamme and Linda LaFlamme, members of another legendary San Francisco band It's A Beautiful Day!
Country Joe McDonald and Barry "the Fish" Melton were the only constant members of Country Joe & the Fish, and Barry is one of the most influentual of the original pyschedelic guitarists from the San Francisco scene of the 60's.
Barry Melton entered music in his teens, in San Francisco, as a member of the Instant Action Jug Band, where he met Country Joe McDonald.
The two worked together on some of Joe's recordings and later formed a band - christened Country Joe and the Fish. They went on to perform at Woodstock and became a seminal part of the 'Woodstock' movie.
Barry's lead guitar - a searing psychedelic assault on the strings - was as essential a part of the group's three classic albums as Joe's voice. Amid numerous personnel changes, especially after the third album, Barry Melton and Country Joe McDonald formed the stable core of the band, which lasted into the late '60s.
After Country Joe went solo, Barry brought ex Big Brother & The Holding Company members Peter Albin and David Getz aboard after Janis Joplin left the band.
Working as Barry the "Fish" Melton, he continued as a solo act through the 1970s to the present day, and also fronts the Barry the "Fish" Melton Band, a "moveable feast" of musicians..
The Southsea gig will mean that following appearances by Country Joe McDonald and also The Country Joe Band, that Barking Spider Promotions will have managed to bring EVERY member of the Monterey Festival/"Electric Music For The Mind & Body"/"Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die" line-up of Country Joe and The Fish to South Parade Pier - but not all at the same time!
In his last ever interview, the late great John Peel said..... "My favourite album of that era really was - and remains - Country Joe and the Fish's 'Electric Music For The Mind Of Body'".
The icing on the cake is that The Barry "The Fish" Melton Band will include David LaFlamme and Linda LaFlamme, of It's A Beautiful Day. In 1969, the group released the self-titled album,' It's A Beautiful Day', and enjoyed their greatest success with the song 'White Bird', featuring David LaFlamme's soaring violin. The band opened for The Grateful Dead, The Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and The Holding Company and performed at Cream's farewell appearance.
The icing on the cake is that The Barry "The Fish" Melton Band will include David LaFlamme and Linda LaFlamme, of It's A Beautiful Day. In 1969, the group released the self-titled album,' It's A Beautiful Day', and enjoyed their greatest success with the song 'White Bird', featuring David LaFlamme's soaring violin. The band opened for The Grateful Dead, The Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and The Holding Company and performed at Cream's farewell appearance.
We're hoping for a great turnout of "Fish-heads" at these gigs!
The full itinerary dates are.
IRELAND (Barry "The Fish" Melton Band - without David & Linda LaFlamme)
Sat 17.7.10 Errigal Arts Festival, Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey, Co. Donegal. www.balorartscentre.com/
Sun 18.7.10 The Cherry Tree, Walkinstwon Cross, Dublin 12. www.musiclee.ie/
Mon 19.7.10 The Stables, Mullingar www.stableslive.com/
Tues 20.7.10 Crane Lane Theatre, Cork. www.cranelanetheatre.com/
U.K. (Barry "The Fish" Melton Band, featuring David & Linda LaFlamme)
Fri 23.7.10 Summer Of Love Festival, Hawkhurst, Kent. http://www.solparty.org.uk/
Sat 24.7.10: Pig's Nose, East Prawle, South Devon. www.pigsnose.co.uk/
Sun 25.7.10: Widcombe Social Club, Bath. http://www.ashkeysmusic.co.uk/
Mon 26.7.10: SOUTH PARADE PIER, SOUTHSEA. www.barkingspider.abelgratis.com/
Tues 27.7.10: Leeds Irish Centre. www.liveinleeds.com/
Wed 28.7.10: Boardwalk, Sheffield. www.theboardwalklive.co.uk/
Thurs 29.7.10: The Musician, Leicester. www.themusicianpub.co.uk/
Fri 30.7.10: Boom Boom Club, Sutton. www.feenstra.co.uk/boomboom/
Sat 31.7.10: Glastonbury or London (DETAILS TO FOLLOW........)
Sun 1.8.10: Glastonbury or London. DETAILS TO FOLLOW........)
Advance tickets for the Southsea gig ONLY are available now for just £9
1. Via "Paypal" (secure site) from www.barkingspider.abelgratis.com.
2. "Saraband", Goldsmith Avenue, Southsea (during shop hours - cash only.)
3. The R.M.A. Tavern, 58, Cromwell Rd., Southsea, (during opening hours -cash only).
4. Cheques payable to Barking Spider Music (together with a stamped addressed envelope) to Barking Spider Promotions, 105, Landguard Raad,
Southsea, PO49DR. (no callers).
For tickets all other gigs please check the websites shown above on the itinerary.
See you there!
J.R.
(The Barking Spider)
Advance tickets for the Southsea gig ONLY are available now for just £9
1. Via "Paypal" (secure site) from www.barkingspider.abelgratis.com.
2. "Saraband", Goldsmith Avenue, Southsea (during shop hours - cash only.)
3. The R.M.A. Tavern, 58, Cromwell Rd., Southsea, (during opening hours -cash only).
4. Cheques payable to Barking Spider Music (together with a stamped addressed envelope) to Barking Spider Promotions, 105, Landguard Raad,
Southsea, PO49DR. (no callers).
For tickets all other gigs please check the websites shown above on the itinerary.
See you there!
J.R.
(The Barking Spider)