# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-melton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:04:53.443Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-melton"
name: "Barry Melton"
slug: "barry-melton"
description: "Barry \"The Fish\" Melton is an American guitarist and songwriter who is the co-founder and original lead guitarist of rock bands 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. 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. An attorney and member of the State Bar of California, Melton has maintained a criminal defense practice since 1982."
tagline: "Keep doing twice as much as the"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barry_Melton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-06-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.64
  momentum:             18.07184750733138
  historical:           8.864188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578385/"
    handle:    "nm0578385"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/478271"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بارى ميلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Melton"
    title: "Barry Melton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Melton"
    title: "Barry Melton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Melton"
    title: "Barry Melton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Melton"
    title: "Barry Melton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Melton"
    title: "Barry Melton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Melton"
    title: "Barry Melton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tok.wikipedia.org/wiki/jan_Pewi_Meton"
    title: "jan Pewi Meton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5702959d-5d00-4984-a049-370d97ee554b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q536184"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1120069"
    title: "Barry Melton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump