Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their music, the Fish have fun with drugs. 'We're gonna make him drop some acid," someone mutters at the fadeout of "Superbird," a direct and bitter stab at President Johnson...
Perhaps more than other musical groups, the Fish are very politically and socially oriented. Joe spent a good deal of time Friday night building up the planned "YIP" Convention--the Youth International Party--that he has been organizing along with Arlo Guthrie and other musicians. He views the convention as opposition to the "National Death Party." In Chicago, Joe said, from August 25 to August 30, "there's going to be something happening all the time...
WHETHER all this will change because of McCarthy's success in New Hampshire is uncertain. Friday night Joe did call McCarthy "a groovy guy. He's like a genius." There is no doubt, however, that Joe and the Fish are sincerely against President Johnson and the War. In their "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag," the Fish decry the War with an alternating background of "sock it to me" and "do wacka do" by singing...
Country Joe and the Fish try to laugh at the horror of the War and of the ugliness of death. They have their own kind of humor--at the same time satirical and sick. "If you get people to laugh at themselves, something happens," Joe said...
ASPIRITUAL-TYPE piece that the Fish do runs in the same vein. "Please don't drop that H-bomb on me, drop it on yourself," Joe pleads, and then, as if to say that the only way to fight the destruction and evil and hideousness of War is to turn on, the group begins immediately to play the beautiful "Thought Dream...