Once upon a time Barry started playing piano & organ at about 9 yrs old. He joined his first band in about 1968, while enlisted in the USAF stationed in southwest Germany.  The four piece band was made up of a mix of Air Force cops and medics. They called themselves "The Liquidators."  They played mostly one-nighters on weekends all over southwest Germany in Airman, NCO and Officer's Clubs, as well as a handful of German clubs. They were a soul/rock band, and covered tunes by the likes of Wilson Pickett, Isley Bros, James Brown, Guess Who, Bee Gees, The Stones, Otis Redding, and others.
     After returning to the USA, and receiving his discharge from the Air Force, he was able to reunite with 3 out of the 4 guys he played with in Germany, and over the next 5-6 years they played in several different trios, quartets and larger groups, mostly made up of the same musicians.  He played the good old Holiday Inn, Ramada Inn, Best Western, Playboy Club type circuit. They gigged 6 nights a week for a minimum of 48 weeks a year, covering 20 states for over 5 years (he got really tired).  They played the usual variety of pop, R&B, jazz, blues and country. 
     In late 1976, he decided to make a career change, and settle in one place for awhile.  He auditioned for, and got a job as a full-time dance/disco DJ at Grand Island's Red Baron Lounge.
     After 4 years of this, needing another change, and tiring in general of the "bar business," he took a job as a psychiatric technician with The State of Nebraska at Hastings and Lincoln Regional Centers, and remained employed there for about 18 years, until "retiring" and making yet another career change.
     The past several years he's been processing meat part-time, for Panama Locker & Smokehouse.  It's just been very recently he had the very good fortune of "running into" several members of "Out of The Blue," and was given the opportunity to audition for a spot in their established blues band. This is his first time playing professionally in many years, and his first time gigging with a full-time rockin' blues / R&B band.
     Barry's musical background is mostly classic and contemporary soul, R&B and jazz. His greatest musical influences are singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Patti LaBelle, Steve Perry and Peabo Bryson, and many others.  Keyboardists Jimmy McGriff, Brother Jack McDuff, Chester Thompson, Ricky Peterson, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Errol Garner and Gene Harris.  He also enjoys the likes of "horn bands" such as Tower of Power, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Cold Blood and Chicago.
Barry’s playing brings out the soulful side of the band. The sound of his Hammond organ broadens and completes the band’s sound the way only a Hammond, in the hands of a skilled musician, can.