Country Joe McDonald Interview - 1970

In 1970, Dan McClosky interviewed singer and songwriter Country Joe McDonald, co-founder of Country Joe and the Fish. They were one of the very first psychedelic bands and played the Fillmore and Avalon ball rooms in San Francisco. They went on to play at Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock.
Country Joe joined the Navy at age 17 and served for three years but later became an outspoken critic of the Vietnam war. He is probably best known for the Woodstock film where he lead the audience in the F-Cheer. In this interview, Joe talked about his family, musical influences, his Berkeley days, Woodstock, and political trials. He played a number of his songs live in the studio during the interview. He has been playing music for over 60 years and has recorded 33 albums. He is a true original and a wonderful song writer, singer and musician.

[@PositivelyArtistic]

Thank you for this.

[@mr.selfdestruct3101]

I found electric music for the mind and body and I love it to death one of my favorite albums ever

[@SidneByars-en8me]

In the 70's I cut His hair. He lived around the corner from my hair salon in Berkeley Hairy Ways
Joe would would read me the classifieds while I was cutting his hair He was a lot of Fun.

[@danmccloskyradiointerviews]

He had a dry sense of humor. Very funny and original guy.

[@MrAtomichunter]

I have this on a KPFA recording that includes other KPFA stuff

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