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Not So Sweet, Martha Loran

(those who didn't do the 60's, don't even ask).

Is this some kind of Druggie code?

No.

What ever happened to good old Country Joe anyway?

As I was...um...sort of indisposed during that period - say from '66
to late '69 - I sort of missed most of the more interesting aspects of
the mid-60's. I could tell a very funny story about my completely
innocent introduction to smoking the most ubiquitous herbal substance
of the times, but I don't want to ruin my hard earned law and order
reputation. :)

Oddly, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" is about the only thing I
know about Country Joe McDonald - never really heard any other of his
music. When I first heard it, it was towards the end of my second
tour. By the time I returned stateside, it became a sort-of anthem
for those who were trying very hard not to do as the title suggested.

I haven't heard much except his first couple of albums, which were
interesting.



From Wiki:
Joe went on to have a long solo career with key albums including:

a.. Thinking of Woody Guthrie (1969) - recorded in Nashville, which at
the time was a very odd choice of location for a hippie songster to make
an album of leftist anthems.
b.. War War War (1971) - another tribute to a landmark American radical,
the World War I anti-war poems of Robert W. Service set to music.
c.. Hold On It's Coming - songs about the West Coast hippie movement.
d.. Superstitious Blues - with Jerry Garcia playing guitar on some
tracks.
e.. Paradise With an Ocean View (1977) - included the landmark
environmental protest song "Save the Whales".
f.. Paris Sessions - landmark feminism, with a female band, singing
songs, written by Joe, including "Sexist Pig".
In 2003 McDonald was sued for copyright infringement over his signature
song, specifically the "One, two, three, what are we fighting for?" chorus
part, as derived from the 1926 early jazz classic "Muskrat Ramble",
co-written by Kid Ory. The suit was brought by Ory's daughter Babette, who
holds the copyright today. Since decades had already passed from the time
McDonald composed his song in 1965, Ory based her suit against a new
version of it recorded by McDonald in 1999. The court however upheld
McDonald's laches defence, noting that Ory and her father were aware of
the original version of "Fixin'", with the same section in question, for
some three decades without bringing a suit until 2003, and dismissed the
suit.

In 2004, Country Joe re-formed some original members of Country Joe and
The Fish as the Country Joe Band - Bruce Barthol, David Bennett Cohen, and
Gary "Chicken" Hirsh. The band toured Los Angeles, Berkeley, Bolinas,
Sebastopol, Grants Pass, Eugene, Portland and Seattle. They then made a
10-stop tour of the United Kingdom and played at the Isle of Wight and
London. Following that came the New York tour which included a Woodstock
reunion performance followed by an appearance at the New York State Museum
in Albany. Returning to the West Coast the band played in Marin and
Mendocino Counties, the World Peace Music Awards in San Francisco and at
the Oakland Museum as part of an exhibit on the Vietnam War.

In the spring of 2005, McDonald joined a larger protest against California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts at the California
state capital.

In the fall of 2005, political commentator Bill O'Reilly compared
McDonald, a Navy veteran,[2] to Cuban president Fidel Castro, remarking on
McDonald's involvement in Cindy Sheehan's protests against the Iraq
War.[3]

McDonald's daughter Seven is a columnist for the LA Weekly.

He performed at the Isle of Wight Festival in the summer of 2007



He lives not far from me in Berkeley. We hear of him at times. Have not
seen him perform for may years. Last big stint was the protest of cutting
down some oak trees on the UC Berkeley campus to build a new football
stadium. Worse part, would block the view from Cheapskate Hill.