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==Music== Mumy is an accomplished musician who plays the [[banjo]], bass, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, [[mandolin]], and percussion. His various musical credits include songs he has written and recorded with [[America (band)|America]], performed on tour with [[Shaun Cassidy]], and played with [[Rick Springfield]]'s band in the film ''Hard to Hold''. He created the band The Be Five with other ''Babylon 5'' actors.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20115233,00.html| title=Bill Mumy's Return Trip| date=June 3, 1991| work=[[People (magazine)|People]]}}</ref> He and [[Marta Kristen]] performed "Sloop John B" in the ''Lost in Space'' S3E14 episode ''Castles In Space''.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9TqwD0Ia_g] Mumy has released a number of solo CDs, including ''Dying to Be Heard'', ''In the Current'', ''Pandora's Box'', ''After Dreams Come True'', ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''Ghosts'', as well as nine albums with music partner [[Robert Haimer]] as [[Barnes and Barnes]].<ref name="AllMusic Bio">{{cite web| last1=Lapka| first1=Larry| title=Barnes & Barnes: Biography| url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/barnes-barnes-mn0000784261/biography| website=AllMusic| access-date=January 17, 2015}}</ref> Their most famous hit is the song "[[Fish Heads (song)|Fish Heads]]", which ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' named one of the top 100 videos of all time. He also performs with the Jenerators, a blues-rock band based in Los Angeles featuring Tom Hebenstreit on vocals, electric guitars, and keyboards; Mumy on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards and percussion; Gary Stockdale on vocals and bass; [[Miguel Ferrer]] on vocals, percussion and drums; David Jolliffe on guitar, percussion and vocals; and Chris Ross on drums and percussion. Additionally, Mumy released a Byrds tribute song, "When Roger Was Jim" (2012). In 2017, along with [[John Cowsill]] ([[The Cowsills]]) and [[Vicki Peterson]] ([[The Bangles]]) he founded the Action Skulls. Their first CD, ''[[Angels Hear]]'', which also included posthumous contributions from the bassist Rick Rosas, was released on September 27, 2017.<ref>Andy Hermann, [http://www.laweekly.com/music/vicki-peterson-bill-mumy-and-john-cowsill-are-action-skulls-song-premiere-8500022 "Meet Action Skulls, a New Band Featuring Vicki Peterson, John Cowsill and Bill Mumy"], ''[[LA Weekly]]'', August 4, 2017.</ref> Mumy produces and hosts ''The Real Good Radio Hour'', a weekly series on KSAV Internet Radio focusing on various styles of music and the artists who pioneered them.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ksav.org/index.php/programs/realgoodradiohour| title=The Real Good Radio Hour with Bill Mumy| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323004614/http://www.ksav.org/index.php/programs/realgoodradiohour| date=March 23, 2013| publisher=ksav.org| archive-date=March 23, 2013}}</ref>
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