Full Interview with Bay Area music legend Country Joe McDonald
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2017
- The 60s rocker and Navy veteran, who's perhaps best known for his appearance at Woodstock, is doing his last club gigs on Thursday and Friday night. Full story here: abc7ne.ws/2kWPE4r.
Section 43 is a phenomenal track. I'm so glad to hear it's Country Joe's favourite as it is mine too. I would say it is the most psychedelic piece of music recorded. It perfectly encapsulates the positive LSD experience.
Young people will never realize how important Country Joe was to our generation.
I loooove all of the country joe and the fish records completely but honestly country joe’s solo stuff is highly underrated! This man is a living legend
Joe is one of the greatest people who has ever lived. A great patriot and a wonderful artist. ❤️🇺🇸🎸
Why do u say he was a patriot?
@@lastnamefirst4035 he served in U S Navy and help stop the unjust war in Vietnam. Helping save countless lives.
Section43 was my favorite thing they did. Mind and body was my first hippie record ever. wonderful!
if i had to choose one cj&f song it would be #43. it leads down a path and always seems different and fresh, like a thunderstorm. but the song 'Who Am I' really cuts to the essence of what life is, or better put, ''what is life?''
@@bobs5596 I still know all the lyrics of who am i. I was 15 when I got the album. Im 69 now
Always love your music. I sent it to my future hubby when he was in Nam, 1 2 3 4 😍
Sweet Loraine...
Country Joe Many Thanks for your efforts through time...Hand Salute.
Always loved CJ and the Fish. What a sound!
I had just arrived in Miami on semester break and as I walked through the airport a hippie passed and I thought I know that guy. It was Chicken Hirsch. Shortly thereafter 2 guys passed and
I realized it was Country Joe and Barry Melton. What could I do? "Give me an F " , I shouted and their faces laughed as they flashed the peace sign, a Vee.
It was shortly after that incident that I entered a small church in the East Village during a Nam war protest and found Country Joe and Joan Baez singing protest songs in the center of the church.
I write this as I noticed today is your birthday Country Joe. Damn, you've paid your dues. Many More Man!!
I like your story especially seeing them at the airport. I gotta goggle joes age. He must be close to 80. Barry had a bday a few days ago. He's still a youngster of 74
Still listening 56 years later.
Yeah this interviewer is clueless. Too bad. CJ has a fascinating legacy.
CJ - You are a Colossus in the American Country and Rock Story. 'Hats off to you.' I was very privileged to see you at The Borderline in London a few years ago. Peace and Love.
Yeah we’re getting old Joe and I sang along with you to ‘Fixin To Die Rag” at Woodstock...
I still love you Country Joe even though I’m still an Old Hippie Pot Smokin Bitch...
Back at Woodstock I wanted to have your love child!!!
So am I Joyce-Sue ✌
This is a wonderful interview and chance to "meet" Joe. My only disappointment is just how little the reporter really knew about him from the get go. It's obvious he did not do his homework, simply by the many things he asked that are, to those of us who love Country Joe, common knowledge. He forgot about Monterey Pop???
You gotta be an old hippie to know anything about Joe...the reporter obviously isn't an old hippie.
Right. If you don’t know Section 43..and that it’s on that first entirely original and groundbreaking album then you either don’t really know what you’re doing or didn’t do the proper preparation.
Had the opportunity to see one of his farewell shows at Sweetwater a few years back. It was awesome. Back In the 90's saw him in Berkeley and got an autographed CD with a song about Clara Barton that was very memorable. Unfortunately that CD went the way of all the rest. Wasn't able to hear him back in the day but he had a long career that spanned decades and enlightened many. Great anecdote about Colin Powell.
Even though we’re still the Counter Culter...we’re STILL “Fixin To Die Rag”
First, let's give the interviewer a break. If you already know everything you're leading, not asking. Secondly, CJM is someone I could sit down with and talk to forever. The man is a treasure
Finally, the mystique is peeled backed by the man himself, humorlessly revealing that the name Country Joe was simply part of his marketing strategy., still, he made some highly creative recordings that have withstood the test of time.
My favorite song is Colors For Susan, very melodic and transcendental 😇
Always good to hear and see Joe
I live in Berkeley and have seen him perform several times for free around town. His dad's autobiography "An Old Guy Who Feels Good" by Worden McDonald is a classic. I got an autographed copy of it in yesterday's mail and it's my fav book!.
Oh thanks. Ill get the book
Where did you find it? I read about it on line but find no source to buy it
So pleased that you named “section 43” as your favourite! My favourite song ever ❤️
Big picture, looking back, I would have to say that 1969 was the height of western civilization. Of course, no one would have known that then. And sure, the Seventies were beyond amazing, but we were coasting, the beginning of a slow slope downwards. Clearly the slope quickened by the early eighties.
If I had to pick the very peak, it would be on the weekend of Woodstock in 1969. If I had to be even more specific, I would say it is evident the tippy top, the very, very top...was the few seconds following the end of the fish cheer, the crowd cheering...so iconic, so ironic, so perfect in so many ways. I think it true. It took me until the 2010's to see it. What an honor to have lived as youth '65-'75. If I only knew, then.
I would dearly love to hear him do a song about the current prez.. in the style of "Tricky Dick."
Tricky Trumpy hip hip hoo ha
Got to see Country Joe and the Fish in Berkeley in the park on Grove Street in 68. Love them. Got a relative named Lorraine. Love
Thank you friend . 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇻🇳
Hard to believe LSD wasn’t mentioned even once in that interview. Neither was Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, the Be-In, Hells Angels, Merry Pranksters, or even Peoples Park. I enjoyed the interview but I would have asked more questions.
Maybe he's talked about LSD all he wants to talk about it and the grateful Dead were the most overrated Cisco band ever
Epic moment at Woodstock, Joe! I still watch that video and you epitomized the times. My love for America and history puts you squarely in my memory.
Great era of music.
Ugh. Fancy the interviewer not knowing which albums fixing to die rag and section 43 were on. Embarrassing. But lovely to hear Joe speak. About the name 'Country Joe and Fish', I read, and I think it was Barry 'the fish' Melton who said it, that their name originated from a conversation with Ed Densen, who remarked that 'Country Joe' was a nickname for Joseph Stalin and that Chairman Mao referred to revolutionaries moving through peasantry 'like fish through water', and it was felt the name reflected their counter culture mentality. Well, that's the story I heard, and like to believe.
Don't be an idiot. There are more important things to worry about instead of what LP a song is on.
Don’t be an idiot. An interviewer should have done some research.
Uh oh...a fight
@@MIKECNW dont be an asshol× Mr
Whether its true or not, good story
Interesting, thanks Mac
Loved the "Section 43" on 7 inch 33 1/3 disc. Listened to it for hours in Bezerkleley. Joe told me they cost $1,500 these days.
What cost $1500
@@lastnamefirst4035 --- First edition "Section 43" on a 7" 33 1/3 disc
@@msimon6808 wow wish I still had my copy
@@lastnamefirst4035 I spent hours on Webster St (Two blocks above Telegraph) Listening to that over and over. Good times.
@@msimon6808 good times indeed. Never have been better years in my life and that's kinda sad bc Ive lived many years. Its good to have the music to remember when
I purchased his third album in November 1971.
"War War War" has been and always will be a favorite.
It harks back to my Hippie days and in a significant way, it caused me to reject my successful application and acceptance of entry to the Royal Military College Duntroon.
What a poignant, sad, sarcastic, and brilliant work of art.
Tracks- Forward, The Call, Young Fellow My Lad , The Man From Aphabaska, The Munition Maker, The Twins, Jean Desprez, War Widow, The March Of The Dead.
It has a special place in my vinyl album collection.
Thank you so much Joe.
Yes, it’s a fantastic underrated album. Very moving.
Section 43 is beautiful.
THIS is the ONLY song I'm aware of from this group.
Hey you
Berkeley. People's park on Sundays
Hippy girls twirling....good times
Interviewer sounds creepy.. very breathy.. uncomfortable listening to him talk..
Joe is absolutley lovely, eloquent.. what a guy
Let a guy be stoned, what's wrong with you?
I like Joes christmas tree
I remember seeing him in Lakeport at the park. They did the I Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag and the crowd got a little tense because it was a pretty conservative area at the time....and Country Joe could tell the there was a tension and he went on to explain he was a Vet and the crowd calmed down... and all was good. Loved that song... they didn't get it, but it was a great song and if he played now.... there'd not be such a reaction. People are more sophisticated here now.
Lakeport? Dont know where that is
"Wokes" Marxists are more sophisticated these days??? LoL
Give me a F! Give me a U! Give me a C! Give me a K!! What's that spells for?!!!?...
Dear Country Joe: your legacy is something worthy of what I've posted. Profoundly "Un-American" in the best possible way. What (I think you'll quickly agree!) is the best possible change for "America"? Do what we do with the SEVENTH GENERATION descending from us in view. God grant your great work and mine to accomplish that objective. Keep the seventh generation in mind. ALL public policy should be aiming to leave them the world we'd have love to have inherited from our forebears.
I dont think Joe's song was unamerican at all
Where's the chipped tooth? That was your icon.
The Aquarian Age. Wow new term.
Used to see them at the Fillmore and Avalon Ballroom. Saw them at the Fillmore about 25 years ago. Joe refused to Play with Barry Melton. Pissed me off because thats why I bought a ticket.
One more trip now and I will stay high all the time.
So. He's still celebrating fascist patriarchal traditions, ya know, like Christmas????!!!!! Kidding. Love you Joe. Thanks for Section 43 and all the rest.
Whoopy
My favorite song is Save the whales.,because we in South Africa 🇿🇦 are trying to save the rhinos.
Legend among da hippies
I agree! Section 43!
Omg......... meeting lying John Kerry was the highlight of his life...... I am out! So sad
yeah that frosted me. kerry the war monger billionaire enabling our enemies and spreading the nuclear threat. you would think joe would have matured his views on what radicals are doing to usa and the world. being innocent, naïve and gullible(hippie traits) leads to slavery, war, and death, when co-opted by ruthless leaders, which it always is, joe. wonder what he thinks the solution is to all the drug addicted homeless camps all across our nation right now. somehow joe seems part of the problem.
@@bobs5596 lol
@@bobs5596 yeah Kerry was the hughlight of his life. Idk. Unlwss Kerry was instrumental in enviormental issues or vietnam. Wish he had said. Now had he been a trump lover that would have put me out
@@lastnamefirst4035I guarantee you country Joe is not fond of dump