Like his brother Mark, Barry has been playing drums since he was a child. He started beating on anything he could until he got his first drum kit at the age of 14.
His first band was Orbit, a popular FM hits band. He left Orbit to join Buster Brown with his brother, Mark Easton on guitar. Barry and Mark left Buster Brown in 1978, and joined Avalanche, with guitarist/keyboardist Micheal Foster, and the legendary Charles Calmese on bass.
This band did original heavy Rock.
, broke up, Barry & Mark formed the band Perfect Stranger with Tommy “T-Bone” Guerra, bassist Stu Stoy, and David “King Cod” Cox. Like Avalanche, the emphasis was on original music. It was also (unknown to us at that time) the genesis of King Cod and the Blues Sharks.
After the end of Perfect Stranger, Barry played with legendary blues singer/guitarist Ellen McElwain. This is where he got his first taste of playing the Blues, a lesson he would come to rely on for much of the future.
Shortly after Barry left Ellen, he and Mark, along with David “King Cod” Cox and bassist Kevin Hill, formed the as yet un-named Blues Sharks. Kevin was later replaced by Mark Laukaitis on the bass. Mark Easton was invited to jam with future partner Wally “Sweet Daddy” Greaney, and invited him to jam with the Sharks, and King Cod and the Blues Sharks was born.
After the Sharks disbanded in 1991, the two brothers formed the Easton Brothers Band. This band featured Walter Albert on bass, and their cousin Johnny Palmeri on . The group recorded one CD, “Wait for the Medicine Man,” and disbanded shortly after so that Walter could attend school.
Around 1995, Mark was asked to host a Tuesday night Blues jam at Husky Blues, a small nightclub on the Storrs campus of the University of CT.
Recruiting musicians and friends from these jams, the short lived Mark Easton and the Husky Blues Band was formed.
In 2000, Barry and Mark built Roughcut Studio and began their foray into digital recording. The first project was the CD “Highway Hallucinations Part 2.”
In 2003, after a short hiatus, Walter Albert rejoined Barry and Mark, and the new Easton Brothers Band was born. The band retreated to Roughcut Studio, and began recording “Led Foot Floyd,” their latest self produced full-length CD.
Barry and the band have finished “Led Foot Floyd,” and are back at Roughcut Studio recording their next CD, as well as rehearsing and gigging with The Blast , and Sweet Daddy Cool Breeze !
