4/5/2023 0 Comments Barney martinIt would be his earlier stuff because his later stuff with jazz isn’t something I really got into, but I love his story and a love his earlier stuff. But at least to get this thing going is to get a reasonable hour-and-fifteen-minute show or so and be able to talk about his life and times, and his music. Martin: Yup, I’m getting back into the solo thing and now that I know I can do a James Taylor show, I’m going back to trying to put one together, and I’ve got other friends of mine that are also interested in maybe jumping in and being part of a band perspective with that, which would be interesting, to say the least, if that could happen. Q: Good grief! So what are you doing now, getting back into the music end of things? Martin: Oh, and then I did this stint, in the early 2000s to late 2000s, where I was doing film industry advocacy because I also did a lot of on-camera acting and voice-over work. I could burn the candle like that - I was young, ya know? I got married in ’93 and soon after I bought a house and started having kids, but I still burned the candle - I was still able to be a dad, a guy who owned a house and had to do maintenance things around it, be a good husband … none of that was sacrificed. I had the IT career that supported my life, and I was doing this on the side, but it was really almost like going through college as a double-major, you know? I’d be doing the corporate thing during the day but as soon as I got out I was off either going into a studio or I’d be out performing somewhere three or four times a week at night in various clubs down in Boston. Q: And that’s when you got out of the music end of things and went into a day job-type of thing? ![]() Martin: Well, the Coos Canyon ended a year and a half ago. Q: How long were you involved with those groups? So, I started doing less of my stuff and going into a cover band and then the comedy of the Maine Hysterical Society. Martin: Well, yeah, I was with a band but in the ’80s I was on my own and into the ’90s, and then, as soon as I hit the ’90s, I would say somewhere in ’94 or ’95, I think, is when I started to get involved with trios: my Maine Hysterical and my Coos Canyon trios began, as well as my family (chuckle). That was in the mid to late ’70s - do I remember that correctly? Q: Now when we were talking the other day setting this interview up, you were giving me a little history about your musical endeavors. Although he was the second actor to portray Jerry's dad, Morty, in the 90s sitcom Seinfeld, he is the one most associated with the role, as the first actor, Phil Bruns, only appeared in one episode.Martin: There you go, a little James Taylor for you, I was just going over my stuff! In 1993, Martin played the recurring role of "Pete Peters" on the Don Rickles sit-com Daddy Dearest. In 1987, he appeared in the pilot episode of 21 Jump Street as Johnny Depp's partner. In 1990, he co-starred with Valerie Bertinelli and Matthew Perry in the CBS sitcom Sydney. Martin was cast to play a character similar to Lear's earlier creation, Archie Bunker, but played as a dog. In 1979, he was cast as the title character in Norman Lear's final TV series concept, McGurk: A Dog's Life. ![]() Throughout the run of this show, he had second billing only to Randall himself. Shortly after, Martin co-starred with Tony Randall for two seasons in The Tony Randall Show as court reporter Jack Terwilliger. On television, he appeared in two episodes of The Odd Couple, once in a very early episode as an irate fellow juror infuriated with Felix Unger's pesty personality and four years later as a fellow subway train passenger.
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