Then we strolled over to Berth 300 with drop lines, bait knives, and gotta-have doughnuts, all in one or two buckets. Sometimes we silently borrowed a rowboat from the tugboat docks and paddled to Terminal Island, across the harbor just in front of us, and hid the rowboat under an unbusy wharf. The video starred a friend of theirs - young Bill Paxton (Apollo 13, Big Love, Twister) - who did this mini-film before his acting career took off.SOMETIMES, that summer in Los Angeles, we fished and crabbed behind the Maritime Museum or from the concrete pier next to the Catalina Terminal, underneath the San Pedro side of the Vincent Thomas Bridge. Then-fledgling Rhino Records heard “Fish Heads” on the show, and signed them to a record contract. Much later, they made novelty disc jockey Dr. Later, they began making tapes that made their friends laugh. The two 14-year-olds shared an interest in comic books and music. Mumy and Haimer became friends that same year. The cast members never got to tell each other goodbye. Mumy says it left him with an incomplete feeling. Two months later, Mumy heard the show was canceled. After the third season, the cast was told that the show had been picked up for a fourth. In 1965, he was cast as Will Robinson for the Lost in Space television series. “I was terrified.” For 10 years, Mumy took the long way around Universal Studios to avoid Hitchcock. Rhino Records has just released “ Zabagabee,” a collection of Barnes and Barnes’ best work. Mumy makes his living writing comic books, acting, writing music and performing as half of Barnes and Barnes. Mumy lives with two cats and his wife, Ilene Davis, a Jane Fonda Workout instructor, who he says keeps him from getting a beer belly. “If that keeps us a little cult band, that’s OK.” “We want to make people laugh,” says Mumy from his home in Los Angeles. The video aired on “Saturday Night Live” and became an early MTV favorite. “Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!” If the Barnes name doesn’t ring a bell, maybe their music video “Fish Heads” will. Mumy, 34, is half of the bizarre cult band Barnes and Barnes. The Robinson family is still Lost in Space, but Bill Mumy, alias Will Robinson, has been found. ‘Lost in Space’ actor found in a cult band (1988)Įxcerpted from The Herald-News (Passaic, New Jersey) Feb 5, 1988 Though his television character was left stranded with his family in the outer reaches of the galaxy, the space kid’s alter ego was one of the few people to have found success (or, at least, a place on the pop culture map) here on earth in two entirely different creative fields.įind out more about “Fish heads” below, and enjoy the roly-poly earworm. One of the two guys in the group was Bill(y) Mumy, who was already known to millions as Will Robinson on the ’60s TV show “Lost in Space.” Then, if you watched the video - which you can check out below - the images therein pretty much doubled the weird factor.Īnd there’s one more thing. The ’80s song “Fish Heads” by Barnes & Barnes wasn’t notable only for its oddly catchy chorus, but also for its bizarre lyrics, and the two unusual “singing” voices.
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